Contest for Grades 4-8th ...............Let's have a winner from WGSD

“Letters about Literature” Contest is Open

For the Letters about Literature contest, students tell authors about the life-changing impact of their books:

Dear Madeline L’Engle,

Your book, A Wrinkle in Time, made me really connect with myself. You may not realize what effect your character Meg had on me, and probably others as well....

Some people think they’re trash because of the unkind treatment they have received. I used to cry myself to sleep at night when I really didn’t have to, it wasn’t my fault, just like Meg. I realized that, so what if kids weren’t nice to me, I could still be nice to them. I made friends with kids that felt the same way I did. Now the bullying isn’t so hard to take for them anymore. Bullying has to stop so the next generation doesn’t have to go through what Meg, me, and millions of other kids go through....

Olivia Van Hammond
Barry Elementary School, Appleton

Dear J.K. Rowling:

... After I had finished reading Harry Potter’s epic tale, I realized that not only my reading level had changed but also something within me. I could now go about life with a brighter perspective of the things happening around me. I knew that another world was always waiting for me if I felt like the one I was living in wasn’t agreeing with me very well. Your books inspired me to believe that life wasn’t as complex as I thought it was. Everyone needs a little unreal to make the real more fun....

Katie Stremcha
North High School, Eau Claire

Submissions to the contest, which is sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Wisconsin Center for the Book, must be postmarked by December 10, 2013, for grades 9-12 and January 10, 2014 for grades 4-8.

Contact Mary Lou Santovec, coordinator, 920-674-5280, for more information.