Tag: mail
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April 18, 2017
Every week, the mail comes, and every week I am moved, delighted, humbled. Some favorite (unedited) lines from this week’s mailbag: “I have enormuse ears. Also I love the book because I am small.” “You shud make more books wen mercy stiks her head in stuff that is funny to me.” “I cried when Winn-Dixie…
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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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May 2, 2013
Twice now, I have been lucky enough to receive little Hope Senders in the mail. These guys are small, winged pieces of original art. They are laminated. You can put them in your pocket or your purse and carry them with you anywhere. They are good company. And now that I have two of them,…
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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…