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Letters to Anyone and Everyone (1996)

por Toon Tellegen

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Presents a collection of strange and fantastic stories featuring or consisting of letters and notes exchanged between elephants, squirrels, snails, ants, and other animals and objects.
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I wonder if your sense of wonder is getting enough exercise. Have you believed two impossible things before noon? Have you made a note to be grateful to the table you sit down to eat in front of, quite probably without ever so much as saying a quiet "thank you, dear table"? I'm betting you haven't. After all, the squirrel...a most loving and patient friend to the elephant and even the bear...had never said his thank-yous to the table. You can imagine the table's joy when he does write that letter!

Oh, and the elephant! The elephant visits the squirrel in his house up the beech tree. It's no surprise that the elephant breaks all the squirrel's furniture before falling out of the tree on the way home. Clumsy, clumsy elephant, who simply doesn't have any sense of balance. I suppose it's no wonder that the snail, to whom the elephant wrote a letter asking for the pleasure of a dance atop the snail's roof, said it wasn't a great idea. But what's an elephant to do when the only thing left to do is build a raft and go to sea?

The sea appears to have taught the elephant how to balance. At least, that's what the squirrel thinks when missing the dear old elephant during a quiet moment amid his next birthday celebration.

And the bear! What a trencherman...trencherbear, I suppose...and the nerve that appetite on legs has! The bear writes to all the animals and asks them if they would please celebrate all their birthdays at once so they can all have cakes which the bear (politely) tells them are really bear food!

But no one minds because that's what the bear always does and is always, always polite about it. So all those visits the bear pays are friendly ones.

These charming short poems masquerading as tales are designed to give the young reader a sense of the magic that the world can't exactly refuse to them yet. The adult reading the poems to the youngest readers who could reasonably be expected to follow them, say six or so, has plenty of opportunities to bring the lessons to life. The lessons aren't necessarily part of the tale. That's such a great idea. Don't tell the kid about selfishness and loneliness and losing someone you love. The animals are doing the learning. The boy who cried wolf? Grim and violent and old hat. Here, the cricket learns about telling the truth by writing a letter saying "The cricket is not here" while chirping madly! Of course that would confuse others.

But the cricket needs to learn another lesson, it seems, since learning the word "not" was accomplished by stealing that word from the letter the elephant wrote. The one that said, "You will not fall," that the elephant was going to read from the top of the beech tree! I don't need to tell you what happened, do I.

I loved the time I spent in this world where all letters are answered by return wind, and all the animals and tables and letters that received the letters were excited to get them and write return letters. The wind always delivers the letters...sometimes huge huge stacks of letters, just ask the ant!...to just the right person. The concepts are ideal for younger readers and the execution, both text and art, is ideal for post-magical thinkers of eight or so to experience as solo reads. There are enough vocabulary words to keep adults involved but the gentle, charming world need cause them no anxiety. Here is a safe space to turn loose of the still-forming mind and soul.

My dear old LibraryThing friend Anita has my smiling thanks and deep gratitude for introducing me to this lovely world. ( )
2 vota richardderus | Nov 26, 2018 |
Interesting/odd book. Absurd illustrated letters/stories. To/from Snail, Elephant, Ant, Stranger, Squirrel, Letter, Bear, Mole, Tortoise, Animals, Table, Sparrow, Crow, Sun, etc. ( )
  katie | Apr 7, 2013 |
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