Welcome to Litsy!

This story is told through a young boy's letters and journal entries. He writes to his favorite author to learn how to become a writer but his letters slowly show that he is dealing with a lot: his parent's divorce, feeling lonely, his lunch being stolen, and poverty. This is a heavy book for a young reader but it is good to expose them to these topics. 4 ⭐️

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In 2022, making contact with your favorite author is no biggie. All it takes is a DM! But when Beverly Cleary wrote Dear Mr. Henshaw in 1983, making this connection required a little more time and effort — and main character Leigh Botts makes that investment time and again as he becomes pen pal to author Boyd Henshaw. On today‘s episode of my podcast, author Jeff Zentner talks about how this book has influenced him. Link to listen in my bio!

RIP, Ms. Cleary. I read this as a child and forgot how much I loved it. The audiobook is read by Pedro Pascal.

RIP 😢

#MGMarch TBR
My theme this year is "Award Winners Edition"
The John #Newbery Medal is awarded annually for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. Started in 1922, it was the first children's book award in the world.
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Newbery winner from 1984. It felt a little one-note at first (remember when a book could just be about Having Divorced Parents?) but won me over in the end with subplots about lunchbox thieves, homemade alarms, and #kidlit authors. I‘m not sure how well it would hold up overall for kids today, but I enjoyed it. #audiobook #hoopla

“A live author called me an Author”

“No matter how bad things seem, life will still go on”

These are a few of the middle grade books from my childhood that I‘ve held on to. Nancy got me started loving “chapter books”, and each of these was special and exciting to me in its own way.
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@ElizaMarie I am@getting ready to send out some Holiday pen pal packages. Would you mind emailing me at marilyncjackson@gmail I must have accidentally deleted your email and I wanted to check something before I mailed yours.

@Kayla.Adriena I wanted to let you know I received your letter and card! It is beautiful and I love the bookmark. I don‘t want you to get discouraged I haven‘t had time to write back. But I wanted to thank you for the beautiful book mail!

Dear Litsy friends, I have been away a whole bunch lately and I miss you guys. Life and work are extremely hectic and I'm just trying to keep my head above water. ❤️

I enjoyed reading this book out loud to my class. I got the teacher kit from the library and I loved the questions and writing extensions in it ( it was nice to have some pre-planning done during report cards and marking, marking, marking)

I‘m reading Dear Mr Henshaw to my class and I‘m enjoying the discussions and reading prompts it facilitates

Why are you so sad, Beverly? Who hurt you?

Dear ssgp stalker,

Just so you know, my Litsy TBR is all books that I do not own, and my Goodreads account (same username) shows books that I have read, if you're worried about that. But I know I will be very happy with anything you send!

Now on to do a little stalking of my own!!

This RF, Newberry award winner is a great choice for AS because students can write to an author just as Leigh Botts does. Leigh‘s favorite author,Mr. Henshaw,encourages Leigh to keep a journal where he is able to reflect on the challenges of his life such as his lunch being stolen, his parents divorce, having no friends at a new school and much more. Beverly Clearly is a phenomenal author who writes about real childhood experiences. #ucflae3414f17

I remember this from when I was a kid! One of my favorites! 😱😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

How fun! I look forward to meeting my match! 🤓
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I was going to go with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for #epistolary, since the letter format at first kept me from reading it! But then I saw this one on my shelf--probably the first epistolary novel I ever read. It's a sweet story that handles some difficult issues through a boy's correspondence with an author. #readjanuary

I admit it. I totally fail as an English teacher. I had to look up the word #Epistolary 😳 for #JanuaryReads #DayFour
After I looked up the definition, my first thought went to Bram Stoker's Dracula, but then I remembered one of my favorite books from my childhood (and resulted in my writing several fan letters to favorite authors): Dear Mr. Henshaw. You can never go wrong with Beverly Cleary.

This book was one of my favorites as a kid. It hit me today that it fits the #epistolatory prompt for #readjanuary. I should reread this. It's been too long.

I remember this book so well back in elementary school. Wondering about a book to place under the Tree for your young kids? This may be a good choice. It's about a 6th-grade boy who starts in a new school after his parents divorce, & he has a pen pal in his favorite author per a class project. This book hit home for me on so many levels. It's in epistolary format, which adds to its indelibility. Beautiful! #PairWith: Swiss Miss hot chocolate.

🎈🎂Happy Birthday Beverly Cleary!🎂🎈

Can't wait for my kids to read it.