A few weeks ago, I got an email from a teacher telling me that his Grade 6 class had just finished reading Wild Ride. They had each written a letter to me about the book and would I mind if he mailed them to me? Being the egotistical writer that I am, I was totally into it.
This post is my letter back to the students in Mr. Sales’ class at Maple Ridge Elementary School. (But you can read too.)
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Hey Maple Ridge Readers!
When Mr. Sales first asked me about reading your letters about Wild Ride I was like: “Definitely!”
Then I thought, “Wait a minute! He said they wrote about the book. He didn’t say they wrote nice things about the book.”
What if all your letters told me how terrible the book was? What would my inflated ego do then?
With these serious matters weighing on my mind, I checked my mailbox each day until these arrived:
Your letters! And they didn’t just arrive in one day. They came and came and came over three days. Each time I checked my mailbox there was another batch.
Over the next week, I read them all and I breathed a huge sigh of relief. The verdict? You liked Wild Ride.
Whew.
And you had questions. Lots of them. Which is fantastic. Asking questions of the author is the most important thing a reader can do. I won’t be able to answer all the questions here, but I’ll try and tackle the ones you asked the most.
