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- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Books about Writing for Children and Young Adults
- Children’s Books Written in a Letter or Journal Format
- Books about Children's Authors
- Some Helpul Web sites
Children’s Books Written in a Letter or Journal Format:
Alma, F.A. (2001). With Love, Little Red Hen. New York: Atheneum.
A series of letters describe the actions of Goldilocks, Peter Rabbit, the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Hen, and others when the Little Red Hen and her chicks become the target of the unsavory Wolf and his cousin. ( E Ada)
Cleary, B. (1983). Dear Mr. Henshaw. New York: Dell Publishing.
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. (F Cle)
Grimes, N. (2002). Danitra Brown Leaves Town. New York: HarperCollins.
Recounts through poems and letters, Danitra’s summer at her aunt’s house in the country and her best friend Zuri’s summer at home in town. ( E Gri)
Hesse, K. (1992). Letters from Rifka. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family’s flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she is left in Belgium for awhile when the other emigrate to America. (F Hes)
Nichol, B. (1993). Beethoven Lives Upstairs. New York: Orchard Books.
The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange, show Christoph’s feeling for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house. (F Nic)
Stewart, S. (1997). The Gardener. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
A series of letters relating what happens when Lydia goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city taking her love for gardening with her. ( E Ste)
Teague, M. (2002). Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Disobedience School. New York: Scholastic Press.
Gertrude LaRue receives funny typewritten and paw-written Letters from her dog, Ike, entreating her to let him leave dog obedience school and come back home. (E Tea)
Webb, S. (2000). My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Describes the author’s two-month stay in Antarctica to stay in Antarctica to study and draw penguins.(598.47 Web)
See also, Looking for Seabirds: Journal from an Alaskan Voyage by Webb.
Quotes:
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.
1(McKinley, R. 2007)
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.
2(Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in Smith, L. (2006). John, Paul, George, & Ben – end page)
1McKinley, R. (2007). Quotes about Writing. Retrieved on April 24, 2007 from http://koti.mbnet.fi/pasenka/quotes/q-writ.htm#The%20reader
2Smith, L. (2006). John, Paul, George & Ben. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.