Tag: letter
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July 8, 2020
I received a letter last week from a woman who wrote to me when she was a child. She told me, then, that she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. I wrote her back and told her what a writer once said to me when I was young: keep writing; don’t give…
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October 8, 2019
These words are a “thank you” for the child who left a note for me at the Barnes and Noble in St. Cloud, Minnesota. You said that Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux had “pierced” your heart. I wanted you to know that your letter pierced my heart. I wanted you to know…
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August 15, 2019
In the mailbag, a short letter, which I will quote in its entirety: “Dear Kate DiCamillo, I had to read a book for summer reading and the one they made me read was The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and I will never, ever forget this book. Love, Brandon.” Dear Brandon, Thank you. I will…
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May 15, 2019
I woke up this morning thinking about a batch of letters I received at least a decade ago from a class of third graders. The letters were all about Winn-Dixie. The kids said what they liked about the book and what they would change. There was one letter from a boy named George. George didn’t…
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April 30, 2019
I’ve been getting a lot of letters about Mercy Watson recently. Last week, an eight-year old named Dylan wrote and told me that he had read “all the Mercy Watson books and all the Deckawoo Drive books and also the new one about Mercy as a piglet.” He closed the letter by saying, “I have…
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February 28, 2019
From Sarah, who is ten-years old: “And now we get to the part of the letter where I am supposed to ask you a question. Except I don’t have any questions really. But we are supposed to ask you a question whether we want to or not. And so the only important question I could…