Tag: miraculous
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March 20, 2024
“What’s it feel like to know all these people read your books?” A ten-year old asked me that question when I was signing books at the Tucson Festival of Books. I looked at her and said, “It’s unbelievable. I don’t have words for it.” “Okay,” she said. “Well, maybe if you work on it, you…
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January 30, 2024
I received a letter from an eight year old who wanted me to know that her teacher read The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane aloud to the class. “And my teacher cried at the end and I told my mother about the book and now guess what? My mother is reading the book too! We…
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November 29, 2022
A young reader named Gabby sent me this fortune. She told me that the words made her think of me. I wrote her and thanked her, and then I taped the fortune in my notebook. Every time I read it my heart leaps inside of me, and says: oh, yes! That! That is what I…
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April 19, 2022
From a fourth-grade teacher who has been reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane aloud to her classes for the last ten years: “My students have always enjoyed this story, but this year something miraculous happened. The whole class cried at the end. All of us. Together. It was transformative. I wanted you to know.”…
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November 24, 2015
I made my way home from Savannah last Saturday. I had a connecting flight in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I had just enough time to go to the bathroom before we boarded.It was late at night and I was tired and I wanted to be home and I was thinking about everything I needed to…
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November 17, 2015
I was at the Savannah Children’s Book Festival on Saturday. I met teachers who read to their students every day, kids who read out loud to their siblings, families who read books together every night, librarians who read to every class that visits their library. I went to the Reading Dogs tent and met dogs–small…