The book was featured on the television show Reading Rainbow in 1996 and adapted into a children's play at the Puttin' on The Ritz Theatre in Oaklyn, New Jersey in 2000.
Illustrations from the book served as inspiration for a children's playground at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden during the Storybook competition in 2009.
The Sloppy Copy Slipup,[10] (Holiday House), 2006: A Castle on Viola Street,[8] (HarperCollins, 2001): Grandpa's Corner Store,[7] (HarperCollins, 2001): A Dog Like Jack,[6] (Holiday House, 2000): City Green,[46] (William Morrow and Company, 1994): Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen,[44] (William Morrow and Company, 1991): The American Wei,[50] (Albert Whitman & Co., 1998): Now We Can Have A Wedding,[36] (Holiday House, 1998): You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?,[32] (Putnam Publishing Group, 1995): Olivia and the Real Live Pet,[33] (Macmillan Publishers (United States) for Young Readers, 1995): The Christmas Knight,[31] (Margaret K. McElderry, 1993): George Washington's Mother,[29] (Putnam Publishing Group, 1992): From 1999 to 2012, DiSalvo played rhythm guitar and sang harmonies for the power-pop rock and roll band Smash Palace.
Signed by Zip Records[52] in 1999, the band toured the US and the UK and was listed among BBC Liverpool's Best Top Ten Live Acts in 2006.
[53] DiSalvo lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and is the mother of two adult children: educator and entrepreneur John E. Zangari-Ryan and screenwriter Marja-Lewis Ryan.