Spoon!

I love the book Spoon by Amy Rosenthal!  It is cute, funny, clever... it is totally my kind of humor.  The kids love it too... last year, Joe checked it out for about 3 months straight!  It is the story of Spoon, who is tired of being a spoon.  His friends have all the fun- Fork gets to twirl spaghetti, Knife cuts steaks and Chop & Stick get to eat sushi!  Eventually, his mom convinces him that it is pretty cool to be a spoon- you get to stir tea and eat ice cream!  It is a sweet story about just being yourself.

To my surprise this morning, I am greeted by a smiling 4th grader, Emily who tells me that she and Madeline have created little clay versions of Spoon and all of his friends!  They have also written a letter to the author, and wonder if I would help them get the photos and letter to her!  OF COURSE!  Look at these little clay guys!  

Here is the letter the girls have written to Amy Rosenthal.  Stay tuned and see if we hear back!!

Dear Amy Rosenthal,

Hi, my name is Emily and my name is Maddie.  We are from Iowa City, Iowa.  We were inspired by your book Spoon so much that we decided to make clay figures of the main characters!  We've made Spoon, Fork, Chop, Stick and Knife.  

We hope you enjoy the pictures of the clay figures.

Please write back.

Your fans,

Emily and Maddie

UPDATE!!

YAY!  We heard back from Amy Rosenthal:

Dear Emily and Maddie
Wow! I love your clay figures-- so super cool! And what a great idea! You could put on a puppet show for the little kids at your school. What do you think of that? And guess what? (this is where you say, "What?!") I just finished the sequel to Spoon! Can you guess what-- or rather I should say WHO-- it is about? You can email me at ***** to tell me . Hope to hear from you s(p)oon!
:)
amy k.r.