Tui. T. Sutherland

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April 24, 2021

Dear Tui. T. Sutherland,

Okay… AHEM. My name is Reina Sui (like, say, um... “sway”, as in “The trees of the Poison Jungle swayed” -I often get my name misspelled or mispronounced), and I go to a private school named St. John’s in Vancouver, Canada. (Which is pretty annoying, if you ask me, because everyone has to wear uncomfortable black -and -white -and -gray -and -a -teeny -bit -of -brownish -redish -and -you -get -the -point uniforms.) At St. John’s, all the grades are split into two classes (except for grades 10,11, and 12, which are split into THREE groups! Seriously, the people who organize the classes must have some SERIOUS math skills, dividing all those students into proper classes.

Anyway, as l was saying, MOST of the classes are divided into two groups. I’m in grade four, and nearly half of BOTH of the classes LOVES your books! (So do those people’s siblings.) I LOVE books about fantasy, so it’s not hard to believe I’m a big fan of your books!

My friend Elaine loves books about dragons. She introduced me to Wings of Fire and I felt captured by the awesome covers when I was hanging out at Indigo Bookstore. The books hooked me with all the exciting dangers and missions and great evils that the dragons had to defeat. I’ve read ALL the books! I love how mysterious the prophecies are and I like

how the dragons aren’t heartless killers. Some are really amusing, how they get interested in cute snails and cry over dead rabbits, and how Glory threatened to eat a sloth but then made it her pet!

I never knew that Tui was the name of a bird! I thought it was a pen name, or just short for something. I’m glad you didn’t change your name to sound like you’re a man, like JK Rowling had to do! You have a great sense of humor. I like how you made your website full of smiley faces and MWAHAHAs! I also learned how you are one of the authors that writes the Warriors series. No wonder I liked those so much too!

Thank you for writing awesome books that readers can enjoy! I hope you keep writing about animals!

Reina
P.S. - I’m interested in turtles too!

Dear My Imagination,

Ugh, this is already getting weird. I mean I am using my imagination to think of this letter so does that mean my imagination is talking to itself? If I am thinking about what to type in this letter then you, my imagination, are the one who is thinking.

Wait, but if that’s true then my imagination is thinking about me thinking about my imagination, and now it’s thinking about that but with an added layer and so on! In all and all I have decided that the world is weird and my imagination must think that too.

Ok I got all caught up in that thought, but what I really wanted to say was thank you for what you have done for me all these years, and thank you for bringing me creative thoughts that have brought me lots of stories and so much more.

Kind regards,
Anthony

Dear Mr. Wong,

You asked for detail, here you go.

On Monday, the day started off boring. The same routine, wake up, eat breakfast, brush my teeth, pack my bag, go to school. Something wasn’t unusual because it didn’t go, wait for class to start, put my stuff in my locker, look at the board… I could go on and on about my normal routine but let me put it here, there was a big banner hanging on the entrance. For a very long moment, I couldn’t see anything because the big and burning sun said “No. You don’t get to see this very important sign.” But eventually I saw that it said “Arts Week 2021” Then I remembered, it was arts week! So basically arts week is a week of art and events related to art which is always really cool (also it was St.Georges day at the end of the week and you could wear red, black and white)

On Tuesday, it was pretty much the same as the normal schedule but, we had to present our biome animal presentation that we were working on where we had to use an accent, record facts about our biome which we chose before spring break, explain an animal and a plant, and finally explain our own animal. All in the span of 1 day. This wasn’t too hard since I was almost finished with the slides. The day went by fast but oh no, whoopsie doo I sprained my ankle. Good news, I’m fine.

On Wednesday, we finished our presentation and we are presenting them tomorrow or Friday. We also had the world record holder for longest paper airplane throw teach us how to fold paper airplanes for arts week. It was pretty cool. While I was throwing my paper airplane outside my house, it got stuck in a tree. That was a whole thing but I got it back. But before that, me and my Mom were in the car getting cake and I felt a clunk on the right side where my retainer was. I thought my tooth fell off but upon further inspection, it was my retainer. My brain's alarm exploded and we were going to the dentist to replace it tomorrow.

On Thursday, I got my retainer replaced during the middle of the day and at the end of the day, we watched the school play called “Would You Hug A Cactus” with unbuttered but salted, popcorn. (END OF DAY. IT WAS REALLY SHORT.)

On Friday, we had a project where the whole class got materials and we made sound to match the silent movie “Steamboat Willie”. We finished it today and it sounded sort of good. We also went swimming for the 2nd time in forever, and we played water polo because our coach said so. (END OF DAY. IT WAS SHORT.)

Was that enough detail?

From,
Raymond

April 24th, 2021

Retainers

9444 Dentistry Street

Vancouver, BC

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Dear Retainers,

How are you?

My name is Matthew. I wear you in my mouth.

The reason you are in my mouth is because you are helping to fix my 7mm overbite.

Your real name is called Twin Block. The top one is purple with wires. The bottom one is orange with more wires.

Do you like being in my mouth? Have I ever hurt you? Like biting you or chewing on you. I have to wash you everyday to make sure you are not dirty but do you even like being washed everyday? Would you rather live in my mouth or in the case?

Did you know I might have to wear you for half a year or even a year! When I first started wearing you I did not like it, but now I l do. After 5 weeks I started to feel uncomfortable because my jaw had moved. Then I went to the orthodontist and they fixed it, you feel comfy in my mouth now.

I don’t wear you to school because I have to take you out a lot of times. I also don’t wear you while doing sports because if you decide to jump out of my mouth, someone might step on you. I don’t wear you when I eat because I don’t want to eat you. I started wearing you in February and in two month my overbite reduced from 7mm to 4mm.

When my overbite gets fixed, do you want to stay with me?

Take care, and talk to you later,
Matthew

Dear Max,

Whoever says dogs can’t speak is wrong. You talk to me everyday and whisper words of wisdom and comfort. You give me the advice I need and you are one of the souls I trust the most. You can always cheer me up with that smile of yours. You seem to be smiling in the darkest of times and you remind me of good memories when you smile your beautiful smile. You are the highlight of my week.

Your eyes are glowing. Even when I have a bad day they will sparkle and they enchant me. They hypnotize me until I forget what I was sad about. They glow. They shine. They are the endearing and I will always remember them. They comfort me after a bad day and they applaud me when I’m good.

I feel more comfortable with you than most people. From your birth in a faraway country to right now cuddled right beside me dozing off into space with that beautiful smile of yours. Your spirit is a monument. Your tail is a castle. Your smile is the sky. Your eyes are the sun.

I think about you every day and long to hug and play with you every time I’m away. 24 hours with you isn’t enough time at all. You are the light of my life and why I continue to thrive and be happy. I will suffer without you.

You are amazing and absolutely perfect the way you are. I love you forever with your eyes. It would be impossible to not fall in love with you.

Your beloved owner,
Emily