Tag: letters
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March 27, 2012
I get a lot of letters about Mercy Watson. And most of those letters have to do with ideas for further adventures for Mercy: Mercy Watson Goes to the Moon; Mercy Watson Drives A Garbage Truck (a particular favorite of mine); Mercy Watson Skips School, Mercy Watson Apologizes (also a favorite). I love that kids…
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March 8, 2011
In the mail: letters from a second grade class in Libertyville, Illinois that just finished reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. The letters are wonderful: funny and smart and wise. Some of the kids also enclosed illustrated postcards that they wrote to Edward. The one pictured here is by Ronin. This morning (early) I…
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January 11, 2011
Yesterday, I received letters from Mathias Sanders and his third and fourth grade students in room 103 at Olympic Hills Elementary in Seattle. They had just finished reading The Tiger Rising. The letters were insightful and moving and funny. The students had also made tiger masks to wear in the October mask parade. And in…