We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from our fearless Children’s Correspondence Editor Cecil Castelluci! Our last letter came from illustrator Jose Pimienta, who worked with Cecil on her latest graphic novel, Soupy Leaves Home. Now, hear from the author herself! Cecil sends a letter of hobo symbols and wants to know what symbols you can create, too.
Cecil arranges for the wonderful letters you receive as part of our Letters for Kids program. To celebrate the release of Soupy Leaves Home, when you purchase a yearly Letters for Kids subscription through August 31 we’ll send you your own copy of the book! To make sure you also receive Cecil’s letter, sign up by August 15!
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Cecil Castellucci is the author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Boy Proof, The Plain Janes, The Year of the Beasts, Tin Star, and the Eisner nominated Odd Duck. In 2015 she co-authored Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She is currently writing Shade, The Changing Girl, an ongoing comic on Gerard Way’s Young Animal imprint at DC Comics. And her newest Graphic Novel Soupy Leaves Home comes out in April 2017. Her short stories and short comics have been published in Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Womanthology, Star Trek: Waypoint and Vertigo SFX: Slam! She is the Children’s Correspondence Coordinator for The Rumpus, a two time Macdowell Fellow and the founding YA Editor at the LA Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles.
