Kansas Center for the Book

2009-2010 Letters About Literature

Students in elementary, middle, and high school are writing letters to authors about the impact of their books on the students’ lives in the annual Letters About Literature reading and writing initiative. Letters need to be postmarked by December 12, 2009 and mailed to Letters About Literature, PO Box 609, Dallas, PA 18612. Submit your students’ letters NOW!

Please visit our Letters About Literature page for more information and for previous Kansas state winners’ letters. To get your entry coupon, visit the national Letters About Literature site.

Get ready to Wiggle!

Preschoolers all over the state will be wiggling along with our 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers about Fitness selection - Wiggle by Doreen Cronin! Kansas Reads to Preschoolers is an annual project held the third week of November (which this year will be the 15th-21st).

Please visit our Wiggle page for program ideas, more books for preschoolers on the Fitness theme, and information about Doreen's visit to Kansas during Preschoolers week.

Affiliates & Fellows support the Kansas Center for the Book

The Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas invites you to become an Affiliate or Fellow and help promote literacy, literary activities, Kansas books and authors, and other activities in the book community. We thank the Affiliates and Fellows who have renewed for calendar year 2010.

Not an Affiliate or Fellow?

To learn more and download an application form, click here.

Your support helps bring books and reading to Kansans all across the state!

Learn more about
The Dreams from My Father & the Kansas Reads Program