Authors and letters - books for children

Sunny the Meerkat decides he wants to try a different home and way of life so he travels around the world visiting his cousins. He sends letters and postcards back home to his family.

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Max continues to exchange letters with his favourite author, telling her about his changing home life.

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A boy sends a series of letters to his new teacher explaining why he cannot start the new school term. Reasons range from alligators to pirates and rocket-ships.

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Follows a young girl's correspondence with Greenpeace about the whale living in her pond.

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A novel in the form of text messages, notes and letters featuring the thoughts and secrets of a class of eleven year olds.

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Laura is excited about her pen-friend in Australia. But when he can't write because of an operation she finds a new way to communicate with him.

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Nursery rhyme characters write to Mother Goose for advice on how to stop falling off walls or to eat their curds and whey in peace.

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Horrible, girl-hating Roland Roberts is assigned to look after Rosie at her new school. She pours out her heart in a letter to Grandad – but then it seems that Roland may not be so bad, after all.

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During hard financial times at home, Lydia goes to the city to help her uncle in his bakery. She writes letters home keeping her family up to date with all her gardening projects.

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