LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE - NATIONAL WINNERS
Letters About Literature, a national reading and writing promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is presented in partnership with Target. Each fall students in grades 4 through 12 are invited to write a personal letter to an author, explaining how that author’s work has changed their view of the world or of themselves. For the 2006-2007 Letters About Literature program, more than 56,000 students submitted letters that were judged at the state and national levels. The six national winners and their parents or guardians have been brought by Target to Washington, D.C., to participate in the 2007 National Book Festival. They will be introduced and will read their winning letters in the Teens & Children pavilion at 11:20 a.m. followed by a visit to the Pavilion of the States. For further information, visit the Letters About Literature Web site: www.loc.gov/letters.