Such a wonderful story. It has an odd cadence and an off pattern rhyme that works really well. IT was really fun to read aloud, and the message of family helping family was great. Add in the Catrow illustrations and you have near perfect book.
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The Long, Long Letter, by Elizabeth Spurr, is about Hetta and the letters she and her sister write to each other. One day Hetta realizes that her sister hadn’t written in a while so she wrote her asking for a letter. To her surprise, her sister wrote a letter she would never forget. This book teaches children the importance of keeping in contact with distant family and friends. ( )

This is a good example of a tall tale because it has a lesson to be learned at the end about seeing what you already have available to you.
Characterization: Aunt Hetta is a dynamic character because she changes from being lonely and thinking nobody cares about her to realizing there are lots of people in her town that do.
Media: Watercolors ( )