“They would write to one Amy per class,” Hanson explains. Hanson says she researched famous people named Amy for the kids to write letters to, including Amy CEOs, Amy presidents, and Amys who head universities and organizations. I think that is what made me think about that book in creating a program in honor what would have been his 100th birthday,” earlier in March. “My younger daughter loved A Letter to Amy. “I have so much respect for ,” Hanson says. Hanson decided to apply for a minigrant from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation-which offers grants to libraries throughout the year to promote creative expression and to bring people together-to fund this project. Sophia Hanson, general manager of New Castle County Public Libraries, got the idea a few months back to start a letter-writing summer program for kids called “Letters to Amy,” inspired by Ezra Jack Keats’s 1968 picture book A Letter to Amy. With the help of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the Garfield Park Lending Library in New Castle, Delaware, a group of elementary school kids got to experience the sheer joy of just that. Many people dream of sending fan mail to someone they admire, but few could ever fathom the possibility of getting something in return. Barbara Prince and YuChieh Chien (standing, from left) assist students in writing their first-draft letters to famous Amys at the Garfield Park Lending Library in New Castle, Delaware.
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