![]() “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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![]() Lady Alisoun, countess of George's Cross: Dodd did such a fantastic job of developing the layers of Lady Alisoun's personality that if you looked closer, just as David did, Lady Alisoun was consumed with emotions. The one thing that stood out the most about David, as Dodd pealed back the layers to reveal his willingness to acknowledge who he was, to accept that he had faults as well as strengths, was his ability to look at the bright side of life in spite of all the hard knocks dealt out to him. David was past his prime, had gray at his temples and on the morning that Alisoun found him he was laying hungover in an alehouse after drinking away his sorrows at losing his title as the King's Champion. ![]() Sir David of Radcliffe: a wonderfully original hero, in that he was not portrayed as the ultra handsome, incredibly roguish, suave and debonair, ultimate fighting machine that authors usually draw from the standard pool of heros. Dodd wrote about complex people whose layers were peeled away so they could worm their way into the cockles of your heart. Walking that path with Dodd was well worth the journey. It took a bit of time to get deeply immersed into this story because Dodd took readers on a slow, but steady path towards plotting developments and character introductions. ![]() This book turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable, entertaining book that takes readers back in time. ![]() Action: 3.5 / Emotion: 5.0 / Romance: 4.5 / Sensuous: 1.0 / Suspense: 3.5 // Historical Flavor: 4.7 // Laughter: 12 / Giggle: 2 // Tears: 3 / Teary: 0 ![]() ![]() Voddie and I talked afterwards and it was clear we had a genuine, mutual respect for one another even though we had some different conclusions. He talked for a few minutes more and then the conference was over. The reason the quotation is missing from the second part of the quote is because I’m going from memory and don’t want to misquote the rest of what he said, but it was very close to that sentiment. Voddie looked to the audience and said, “Remember what you saw here tonight.” Remember that you saw brothers, not enemies, disagree on somethings and still be brothers. Voddie went last, and gave, for many, the most meaningful wrap up to the conference. ![]() Towards the end of the conference, the moderators asked us to give a final takeaway for the audience. The audience watched us work through all of them. While there were things I agreed with them on, we definitely had some differences of opinion. Tim and Voddie were basically in sync with their opinions on Systemic Racism, CRT, BLM, and Social Justice. The three and a half hour conference was attended by hundreds of people, mostly there to see Voddie. Wrath and Grace was hosting a panel conference on Social Justice. On Tuesday evening January 26th, 2021, I was at Lancaster Bible College. ![]() ![]() A review needed to be robust because the impact of Fault Lines is very much that. ![]() I appreciated them asking me to write it though. Editors note: This article was slated for the The Gospel Coalition but it was too much info for them to publish. ![]() |