Author Response

A student quietly entered the library this morning and waited patiently in line for his turn to check out a book. The students in front of him were in no hurry, but this student was! As soon as everyone else had left, he told me, with the widest smile on his face, that he got a response from an author to a letter he wrote and sent a few months ago. Wow--Music to my ears--perhaps one of the most exciting things a librarian could hear from a student! After some discussion, I learned that my student wrote to Darren Shan, author of the Cirque du Freak series that are still so popular with middle schoolers. He's read so many books by this author. He asked the author a question about one of the characters. It's a horror series, so I have managed to stay away from it all these years. Stay tuned. I hope to be able to post the correspondence here in a future post. In the meantime, you can learn more at www.darrenshan.com