Letters and recipes from more than 50 well-known and award-winning children's authors provide insights into their lives, advice to the children who wrote to them, and personal information. Each entry includes the student's letter to the author, the author's response, and a recipe from the author.
Josephine Waltz has been a public school teacher since 1974. She teaches sixth-grade reading, gifted children and enrichment classes at William Annin Middle School in Basking Ridge, NJ.
[O]ffers a unique glimpse into the personalities and culinary
habits of more than 50 children's authors and the often astute
observations of student writers….It is doubtful that any gourmet
chefs will be born as a result of this compilation, but these young
people promise to be wonderful writers themselves. Such a rich and
sumptuous dialogue is substantial fare, a feast for hearts and
minds.
*School Library Journal*
This book is a new twist to a long-standing language arts strategy.
Waltz put together a cookbook of authors and their favorite recipes
to raise money for a children's literacy foundation. Students in
her sixth grade class wrote to their favorite authors expressing
their opinion of a classic book they read, and asked the author to
send them their favorite recipe….The student and author letters are
the most appealing to use in the classroom to motivate reading.
Teachers can use the letters from students and authors to introduce
books to their classes, show letter-writing examples, and discuss
opinions of various books that will offer insight into how and why
the author wrote the book. Other strategies could include math
integration by making some of the recipes in class to practice
measurement and to follow directions. Recommended.
*Library Media Connection*
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