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We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from illustrator Jose Pimienta! Jose writes to us about the day he left Georgia, picked up a good friend in Kentucky, and headed west to pursue an art career in California. This awesome letter about their trek and the lives they’ve built since arriving in West Burbank is filled with wonderful illustrations, too!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from illustrator Jim Paillot! Jim tells us all about adventures in books and movies he loves, and his real life adventures, too!
To make sure this letter reaches your favorite young reader, subscribe by July 13!
...moreOur fearless Children’s Correspondence Coordinator, author and editor Cecil Castellucci, sends her annual fearless summer reading list, along with a list of questions for you! Please respond with your answers so Cecil can continue to bring you great letters in the mail!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Elise Gravel! Elise writes to us about one of her favorite things about her home city of Montreal—the alleyways! They are full of cats, and kids playing, and parents chatting! It’s like a garden party that lasts all summer!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Rachele Alpine! Rachele writes to us about her love of baseball, books, and especially hockey! And the importance of being yourself because there’s only one YOU!
To make sure this letter reaches your favorite young reader, subscribe by June 1!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jason Fry! Jason writes to us about his weird hobby of making baseball cards for the Mets players that don’t have official baseball cards.
To make sure this letter reaches your favorite young reader, subscribe by May 12!
...moreReleased today, Michael Hearst’s Curious Constructions will bring you face-to-face with fifty incredible structures, including: a fire-breathing octopus sculpture; the skateboard ramp you’d need to jump the Great Wall of China; a whole community of tree houses in Costa Rica; and a lifesize X-Wing Starfighter built of Legos.
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Anna Humphrey! Anna sends us a picture of her in disguise and wants to play the game “Two Truths and a Lie” with you so get your pencils and pens ready to write back!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Eric Luper! Eric describes the time he escaped hungry crocodiles, and all the adventure that ensued.
To make sure this letter reaches your favorite young reader, subscribe by March 31! For more information on Letters for Kids, click here.
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Sarah Prineas! Sarah writes to us about creating maps, and runes, and her collection of dragons!
To make sure this letter reaches your favorite young reader, subscribe by March 15! For more information on Letters for Kids, click here.
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Cynthia Levinson! Cynthia writes about her wishes and dreams to live somewhere else, and how today she lives in two very different places. And, their names rhyme—can you guess where she lives?
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from children’s author, teacher, and musician Mike Grosso! Mike writes to us about growing up in a musical family and how his thoughts would spin so fast that he had a hard time sitting still and learning in school.
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Kara LaReau! Kara writes to us about the time she proudly handed in a report on Marian Anderson for Black History Month and got in trouble for using a good word.
Subscribe by January 30 to make sure this letter reaches your favorite young reader!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jenn Bishop! Jenn writes to us all about her many pets—meet and see pictures of Brownie the rabbit, gerbils Ralphy and Flash, and cats Suki and Lilly.
Subscribe by January 13 to make sure this letter reaches your favorite young reader and animal-lover!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Tania Del Rio! Tania writes to us about her childhood mission to convince her parents to get a dog. Did she succeed? Subscribe by December 27 to find out!
And don’t forget that a Letters for Kids subscription makes a perfect stocking-stuffer or last-minute gift for young readers in your life!
...moreThis month we have a Letter in the Mail for our adult program that was so awesome we wanted to send it to Letters for Kids subscribers, too! It’s from writer and illustrator Allyson Hoffman. Allyson shares with us the people she’s grateful for, the things that make her happy, and the places that she loves, using words and very special drawings.
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We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Skila Brown! Skila writes to us about birthdays, surprises, and birthday surprises! And she’s given us a signed hardcover copy of her awesome book Slickety Quick: Poems About Sharks so watch our Facebook page for details of the giveaway.
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jill Diamond! Jill wants to know what you like to collect, and writes about all the things she collected as a kid, and even now as an adult, from stickers and rocks to cowboy boots and memories!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Janet Sumner Johnson! Janet writes about candy, and a fabulous candy jar, and its tragic end. Subscribe by October 29 to read all about the ordeal!
For more information on Letters for Kids, click here.
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from John Green! John writes to us about how his love of drawing comics as a kid led to his working at Disney and continuing to create his own comics as an adult. He’s spends pretty much every waking moment on comics, and he LOVES it!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Kristen Kittscher! Kristen writes about all the strange and exciting magic around us every day!
Subscribe by September 29 to receive her letter. And, don’t miss our special fall promotion! Purchase a one-year subscription to Letters for Kids by September 30 and you’ll receive a hardcover copy of Coyote Moon signed by author Maria Gianferrari!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from William Alexander! William sends us a confession of something he did in the third grade involving a librarian he still hasn’t forgotten. Subscribe by September 14 and learn what William’s confessing to…
And, don’t miss our fall promotion!
...moreMaria Gianferrari returns for our next Letter for Kids, and she wants to know what creatures are your wild neighbors? She’ll tell you about the late night encounter that inspired her to learn more about her wild neighbor the coyote and to write the book Coyote Moon!
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Cylin Busby! Cylin writes to us about her childhood farm and all her barn cats—wow, did she have a lot of cats! And they were the best mousers in the world! Subscribe by August 11 and find out just how many cats Cylin had.
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jen Maschari! Jen writes (and draws) about woods! And forts! And creeks, and critters, and popsicles! Subscribe by July 27 to find out all about her childhood neighborhood and tell her all about yours.
...moreWe’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Melanie Conklin! Melanie writes about how she had a hard time as a kid figuring out how to make friends and wants to ask you, “Do we all really want to be the same?” This is a wonderful letter about just being yourself!
...moreChicago libraries have an ambitious plan to give away more than a million children’s books this summer in an effort to combat intellectual regression that occurs in summer months when children aren’t in school. Every branch of the Chicago library is giving away books to children who sign up for the program.
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