Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

The Letterbox

My Dear Dreamers of Other Worlds,

I felt the need to write a shout-out to the many splenderific people frequenting this delightful publication in the November/December 2021 issue. Cora, thank you for the fact about pangolins! Did you know that snails can have over twenty thousand teeth? I wasn’t even aware they had teeth till I happened across that! Silverfeather, you have great taste in books. Mystic Moon, you have my respect for playing the violin. Many instruments I’d like to play. Violin is high up there, but I have only learned the piano, which I love. Kylie, have you read The Emily trilogy by L. M. Montgomery or The Tillerman Cycle by Cynthia Voight? Also try Inkheart books.

I am utterly spiffed whenever I find a bookmark that’s more than an unmarked scrap in a library book and have been making a point of leaving one in nearly all the ones I return. I write a general howdy-do to the reader. Fellow readers, please start leaving a bookmark in the books. It doesn’t have to be much.

Finally, a general shout-out to all you readers, writers, musicians, misfits, and believers in dragons: I appreciate you all! I

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