Because You'll Never Meet Me

Because You'll Never Meet Me
Author: Leah Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2015-07-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1408862638

Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures, while Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz. Through an exchange of letters, the two boys develop a strong bond of friendship which becomes a lifeline during dark times – until Moritz reveals that he holds the key to their shared, sinister past, and has been keeping it from Ollie all along.

Writing Letters with Pen and Ink

Writing Letters with Pen and Ink
Author: Edward St Paige
Publisher: Darling
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Calligraphy
ISBN: 9781883211592

This volume lovingly describes the many connected pleasures enjoyed by someone who conducts a correspondence through letters handwritten with pen and ink. The nature of different pens is discussed, and the pleasure of writing with them is chronicled. The selection of paper and ink is examined, and through the choice of envelopes and stamps further opportunities for variety and creativity are explored. This book will encourage many people to explore this profoundly satisfying way to communicate.

Letter Writing as a Social Practice

Letter Writing as a Social Practice
Author: David Barton
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2000-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027298661

This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity gains its meaning and significance from being situated in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. This book brings together anthropologists, historians, educators and other social scientists, providing a range of case studies that explore aspects of the socially situated nature of letter writing.

More Letters of Note

More Letters of Note
Author: Shaun Usher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: Correspondence
ISBN: 9781786891693

FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER INCLUDING LETTERS FROM: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Bront� and many more. Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts. More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.

Letters to a Young Writer

Letters to a Young Writer
Author: Colum McCann
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1443453161

From the author of Thirteen Ways of Looking and TransAtlantic, a compassionate series of letters to young writers embarking on their careers, which grew out of the weekly advice McCann posts on his website.

Dear Teacher

Dear Teacher
Author: Amy Husband
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2010
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 1402242697

"This hilarious collection of letters from Michael to his new teacher comes packed with alligators, pirates and rocket ships, and much, much more. Can Michael's imagination save him from the first day of school?"--Page 4 of cover.

I Wanna Iguana

I Wanna Iguana
Author: Karen Kaufman Orloff
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2004-09-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399237178

Hilarious notes between a son and his mom show how kid logic can be very persuasive. Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home. Alex's reassures her: It takes fifteen years for an iguana to get that big. I'll be married by then and probably living in my own house His mom's reply: How are you going to get a girl to marry you when you own a giant reptile? Kis will be in hysterics as the negotiations go back and forth through notes, and the lively, imaginative illustrations showing their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana take the humor to even higher heights.

Making Letters

Making Letters
Author: Jo Moon
Publisher: Brighter Minds Childrens Pub
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781577912484

Introduces the letters of the alphabet for with objects from apple to zebra, indented letters that can be traced with a finger, and a guide to writing the letters at the end. On board pages.