The latest of Penny Morgan Colman's books for children and young adults has just come to our attention: Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II, published in 2002 by Crown Books for Young Readers. Penny, class of '66, dedicated the book to her mother, who taught her "the importance of knowing history and the power of words and images." And she puts those two lessons together in this book. With more than 70 black-and-white illustrations in only 128 pages, Penny tells the story of the 127 female war correspondents who managed to gain credentials from the U.S. War Department and -- though forbidden to cover combat -- get "where the action was." One Booklist reviewer calls the text "briskly readable" and says the book "profoundly captures both the times and the struggle of women who had the talent to do the job male reporters did but had to fight harder to do it." Clearly, they were, to quote Helen Peabody, "masters of the situation." The subject was a natural for Penny! Perhaps the best-known titles among her many award-winning books: Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II and Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America.