A Chester County author and award-winning former journalist recently released her second children's book, "Bump Under the Rug," which celebrates imagination and aims to empower children to face their fears.

Danielle Lynch Nicholson, who began her professional career as a reporter in West Chester, was inspired to write this book after finding a draft of it in a keepsake box of her favorite writing assignments from her youth. When Nicholson began writing the story in fourth grade at Saints Philip and James School in Exton, her teacher, Marguerite A. Gotshall, praised the story and encouraged Nicholson to keep working on it.

"Bump Under the Rug" was published by Spring Cedars in Colorado in November 2021. In the book, the main character, Kelsey - which means brave in some cultures - hears a strange sound in her bedroom and discovers a bump under the rug. She must face her fears to solve the mystery.

After publishing the book, Nicholson wanted to reconnect with Gotshall, but learned that her former teacher had died about five years earlier. However, Nicholson contacted Marguerite's husband, Elwood R. "Woody" Gotshall Jr., a Chester County resident, and gave him a copy of the book. Woody said his wife would have been very proud of her former student's accomplishment.

Nicholson's first children's book was the self-published "Buster Crosses Rainbow Bridge," released in 2020. The story, which was inspired by Nicholson's first childhood dog, Buster, is intended to help children understand and cope with the loss of a pet.

To learn more, visit https://childrensbooksbydanielle.com/.