Beverly Clearyю. Беверли Клири
Книга для чтения на английском языке в 7–8 классах общеобразовательных учебных заведений
Адаптация и словарь: А. В. Шитова
© Шитова А. В., адаптация, словарь, 2014
© ООО Антология, 2014
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
My teacher read your book about the dog to our class. It was funny. We licked it.
Your freind,[1]
Leigh Botts (boy)
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
I am the boy who wrote to you last year when I was in the second grade. Maybe you didn’t get my letter. This year I read the book that I wrote to you about called
Your fri
Leigh (Le-e-e) Botts
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
I am in the fourth grade now. I made a diorama of
Your best reader,
Leigh Botts
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
I am thinking about
Your favorite reader,
Leigh Botts
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
I am in the fifth grade now. You might like to know that I gave a book report on
Sincerely,
Leigh Botts
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
I got your letter and did what you said. I read a different book by you. I read
Your number 1 fan,
Leigh Botts
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
This year I am in the sixth grade in a new school in a different town. Our teacher is making us do author reports to improve our writing skills, so of course I thought of you. Please answer the following questions.
1. How many books have you written?
2. Is Boyd Henshaw your real name?
3. Why do you write books for children?
4. Where do you get your ideas?
5. Do you have any kids?
6. What is your favorite book that you wrote?
7. Do you like to write books?
8. What is the title of your next book?
9. What is your favorite animal?
10. Please give me some tips on how to write a book. This is important to me. I really want to know so I can become a famous writer and write books exactly like yours.
Please send me a list of your books that you wrote, an autographed picture and a bookmark. I need your answer by next Friday. This is urgent!
Sincerely,
Leigh Botts
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
At first I was very upset when I didn’t get an answer to my letter in time for my report, but it was OK because I read what it said about you on the back of
Your writing tips were OK. I could tell that you were serious about them. Don’t worry. When I write something, I won’t send it to you. I understand how busy you are with your own books.
I hid the second page of your letter from Miss Martinez. That list of questions that you sent for me to answer really made me mad. Nobody else’s author put in a list of questions, and I don’t think it’s fair to make me do more work when I already wrote a report.
Anyway, thank you for answering my questions. Some kids didn’t get any answers at all, which made them mad, and one girl almost cried, she was so afraid she would get a bad grade. One boy got a letter from an author who was really excited about getting a letter and wrote such a long answer that the boy had to write a long report. He thinks that nobody ever wrote to that author before, and surely he wouldn’t again. About ten kids wrote to the same author, who wrote one answer to all of them. There was a big argument about who could keep it until Miss Martinez took the letter to the office and made copies of it.