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Woohoo! The next Letter for Kids, going out Friday, June 14, is from Leslie Margolis!
Leslie writes books for teens and tweens, including the Annabelle Unleashed series and the brand-new Maggie Brooklyn Mysteries series. The Young Adult Library Services Association put her novel Fix on the “Popular Paperback” reading list and her novel Boys Are Dogs on the “Amazing Audiobook” reading list.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out May 31, is from Emily Jenkins!
Emily is the author of several books for children, from picture books to novels, including the award-winning Toys Go Out and its two sequels. She also writes young-adult novels as E.
...moreBay Area readers, you’re in for a treat. Our Letters for Kids editor Cecil Castellucci has a new picture book out, and you can go see her read it in both Alameda and Berkeley this weekend!
The book is called Odd Duck, and it’s about Theodora, a “perfectly normal duck”…or so she thinks.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Kristen Kittscher!
Kristen is the author of The Wig in the Window and The Tiara on the Terrace, the first two books in a mystery series for middle-grade readers.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Janet Tashjian!
Janet is the author of several award-winning books for children and young adults, including the My Life As A… series and Tru Confessions, which was turned into a Disney Channel original movie.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Arthur Slade.
Slade is the author of several short stories, comics, and novels for children and young adults, including Draugr, Dust, and The Hunchback Assignments. He also writes reviews and articles, and maintains a podcast and a blog.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Erin Fry, and it’s going to be a doozy.
Erin is a dynamo. She’s not only a writer but also a middle-school English and history teacher, a kickboxing and running coach, a book reviewer, and a mother of three.
...moreExciting news: The next Letter for Kids, going out this Thursday, is from Irene Latham!
Poetry editor of the Birmingham Arts Journal, Irene has written two novels for kids: Leaving Gee’s Bend and Don’t Feed the Boy. Dear Wandering Wildebeest, forthcoming in 2014, is her third collection of poetry—but her first collection of poetry for young readers.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out this Wednesday, is from Grant Baciocco.
Baciocco is the creator/host of Henson’s podcast and a puppeteer for Stuffed & Unstrung.
He also created several other award winning, family friendly podcasts including The Radio Adventures of Dr.
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It’s not too late to purchase a year-long holiday gift subscription to Letters in the Mail or Letters for Kids.
The holiday gift subscription will get you or your loved one twelve months of Letters in the Mail or Letters for Kids starting on January 1st, 2013!
...moreIn their 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, The Chronicle of Higher Education endorsed our Letters for Kids subscription:
“1 more thing for kids: The Rumpus’s Letters for Kids project will mail your child a letter every few weeks from a children’s / young adult author.
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Since launching Letters for Kids in July, we’ve sent some wonderful letters through the mail. To give everyone a better sense of what the subscription is all about, we’ve released two of those letters from their envelopes and brought them online.
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The next Letter for Kids, going out this Friday, is from Lisa Yee.
Lisa’s debut novel, Millicent Min, Girl Genius, won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her other novels for young people include Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, So Totally Emily Ebers, Absolutely Maybe, and a series about a 4th grader, Bobby vs.
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In August, we donated $2 from every new Letters For Kids subscription to our favorite non-profit tutoring center, 826. We’re doing the same thing throughout September, the end of which is fast approaching.
826 started in San Francisco with a pirate supply store at 826 Valencia.
...more826 Valencia’s upcoming quarterly anthology of excellent student writing will feature a foreword by our very own Isaac Fitzgerald, along with cover art and illustrations from artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton!
This week is the perfect time to support 826 and The Rumpus in one fell swoop: We’re donating $2 to 826 National for every new Letters For Kids subscription sold until the end of September.
...moreWired wrote about Letters for Kids, our newly-launched subscription service akin to Letters in the Mail — but for youngsters. We agree wholeheartedly with Wired’s endorsement:
“If your child has bookish tendencies, or if you’d like to encourage the development of such tendencies, this is worth a look.”
Thanks, Wired, we love you back!
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