Tag: letters
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April 10, 2014
In the mailbag, a letter from Nicholas in New Jersey. The letter begins this way: “Dear Kate Dicamillo, It’s come to my attention that you should write a series for Flora and Ulysses. To begin with I think this is the best you have ever written, and maybe other people would want another book about…
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February 18, 2014
All kinds of exciting things happen around here. For instance: a few days ago, a friend stopped by with a gift for Henry. It’s a medal with these words inscribed upon it: HENRY, Official Dog of the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Yep. Henry is, of course, deeply pleased to have a medal. He…
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January 21, 2014
Candlewick Press bundles up my mail and sends it to me once a week and I never know what I am going to find in that package, but invariably, I am moved, humbled. This week, I received a batch of letters from 4th grade students in St. Cloud, Minnesota. They wrote to me about the…
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November 5, 2013
From class 5-308 at PS 54 in Staten Island: a fabulous bunch of letters about The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Each letter is illustrated with a favorite scene from the book. The artwork shown here is by Simrun whose favorite scene is when Edward was flying “because it made me happy.” This art makes…
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March 12, 2013
I am having a wonderful, illuminating, entertaining time reading the letters of E.B. White. I came across this line last night and underlined it. White writes, in a letter to his brother, about his predilection for writing about “impertinences and irrelevancies.” Which leads him to this insight: “sometimes in writing of myself . . .…
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February 26, 2013
For almost thirteen years now, I’ve been getting letters in the mail from kids. These missives are honest (“I didn’t really like your book, but my teacher said I had to write you a letter anyway”), heartfelt (“I know how Opal feels. I have had to be the new kid in town.”), funny (“Hey, I…