Ken Steif To both of my boys Make more ‘family’ decisions than ‘me’ decisions. Always ask yourself… ‘How am I doing today?’ ‘What did I do today to make the…
Category: Archive: Letters and Voices
Courtney Dunlap • May 3, 2022 Visit Courtney’s website and follow her on Instagram @storiesforuspress. Whoever You May Be, If you could write your life’s story, what would we read?…
Laura Gao • March 19, 2021 This letter was written a year ago when Laura finished penning the last page of “Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American”…
Mo Willems • January 26, 2022 Hello Readers, It’s Mo Willems. How are you? You know, being a reader is like having a superpower. You can travel through time and hear…
Jenny Delacruz • November 24, 2021 Hi Readers, When I was five years old, my family moved from our apartment in Brooklyn, NY, to our first home in Queens. I…
David Wiesner • June 8, 2021 Most of the books I have written have no words. That must sound strange, a book with no words. Are the pages blank? No,…
Mitali Perkins • April 9, 2021 Dear fellow lovers of story, I wish I had treated my vocation of writing fiction with as much care as I do now. Maybe…
Alex Gino • 16 March 2021 Hey young Book-A-Day readers, I’ve got a question for you: How many times has an adult told you that you don’t know everything? I…
Chloe Gong • 12 January 2021 Dear Readers, You know when you’re really invested in a book or a TV show—when you can’t wait to find out what happens next—…
Christine Kendall • 8 January 2021 Hi Friends, If you could write and illustrate a book about yourself what would the book cover look like? A young reader posed that…