The Letter Q - Review and Giveaway - Part 4

The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes To Their Younger Selves
edited by Sarah Moon
Arthur A Levine Books
978-0-545-39932-6
$17.99

We've all heard of the "It Gets Better" or the "Dear Bully" campaigns. Scholastic took those projects a step further and gathered over 60 authors to write letters to their younger LGBTQ selves. What a great way to reach those teens who may be struggling to hang on.

Monday - Friday, I will highlight a different young adult author, as well as Arthur Levine himself, and give you an excerpt. (UPDATE: HAD TO SKIP ONE DAY SO WILL RUN TO SATURDAY, JUNE 2)


Brian Selznick
As a fan of Andrew Clements, I've always loved Selznick's work.  When he stopped illustrating for Clements, I was heartbroken. Then he wrote The Invention of Hugo Cabret and my heart stopped hurting from pain and exploded with joy. And then he wrote Wonderstruck. And I didn't know I could feel so much.  Visit him at  - Brian Selznick.


Selznick responds to a letter he wrote to his future self when he was thirteen.

Did I marry someone? Is she nice? Well...this is the question that surprised me, because I'm the only person who knows what you were really thinking at thirteen when you wrote it...So, to answer your question: No, I didn't get married to a woman, but I did fall in love...and we've been together for almost fourteen years now.

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Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick - Bookaday #12

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Scholastic Press
2011 (ARC)

Wonderstruck. That's exactly how I felt after reading this book! I was sad when Brian Selznick stopped illustrating the covers for Andrew Clements; I loved his work.  Then he came out with The Invention of Hugo Cabret and I got it.  It took a lot of work to write a story where the pictures are so integral if you miss one, you might as well give up! That book won the Caldecott.  Now, 4 years later, he's done it again.  Though, I think we might have a Newbery contender on our hands.  Wonderstruck is, at least, two stories in one.  Ben's is the story we start out reading while Rose's story is told in the pictures.  We alternate between the two but at the same time, they seem entwined.  Ben just lost his mother and is at his old house when he is struck by lightning.  This leads him on a journey to find his father.  Rose is obsessed with an actress she desperately wants to see but she is being locked inside the house.  This leads her to run away.  I can't tell you much more because it would give things away.  This is a MUST read. Really, beg, borrow, or steal, err, I mean pre-order it now!
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