The Great Depression Introduction
http://www.american-historama.org/1929-1945-depression-ww2-era/great-depression-facts.htm
Facts and statistics to help frame the book's setting and introduce the reader to the Great Depression.
Interview with Christopher Paul Curtis
http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/curtis
An interview to help the reader understand the author and his perspective while writing Bud, Not Buddy
"Remembering The Great Depression's Sunny Side"
https://www.npr.org/2009/10/23/113844245/remembering-the-great-depressions-sunny-side
A deeper dive into culture during the Great Depression
