Mrs. Barbara Anti letter to Robert Cormier
Mrs. Anti writes of her students' interest and enthusiasm for Robert Cormier's book <em>After the First Death</em>. She invites him to speak to the class, promising a captivated audience, gas mileage, and school lunch.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/56" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's letter to Mrs. Anti</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/106">Robert Cormier's response to Mrs. Anti's class</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/70" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mrs. Anti's Class Project "Hallowell Highlights"</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/128" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Belinda Lothrop letter to Robert Cormier 25 October 1988</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/129" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">David Key letter to Robert Cormier </a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/130" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Denise Concheri letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/131" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jamie Argento letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/132" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kimberly Dawes letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/133" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kristi Kozak letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/134" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kristin Doton letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/135" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Michael Ryan letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/137" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pamela Carpenter letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/138" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rachel Flynn letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/139" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stephanie Synder letter to Robert Cormier</a>
TIF, 8.5 x 11 letterhead paper
English
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Rebecca D. Pace's letter to Robert Cormier
Rebecca D. Pace, a seventh-grade student, wrote a typed two-page letter to Robert Cormier dated 12 March 1991. She talks about what a gripping and surprising novel <em>We All Fall Down</em> was. She openly admired Kate and specifically noted that Miro got away free. She notes that it was different for the hero to die and the villain to get away. It appears to be a fan letter and not connected to a school project.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
12 March 1991
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/103" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's draft response to Rebecca Pace</a>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Alyssa O'Brien's letter to Robert Cormier
In this three-page, handwritten letter by 12-year-old Alyssa O'Brien, the reader is introduced to a thoughtful young woman who has read several of Cormier's books twice or more in the interest of better understanding a book as time goes by. That she has a well-developed and agentive literate life is evident in her introduction where she identifies not only as a reader but as a writer. Furthermore, she carefully outlined a plan to introduce her friend, Chrissy, to Cormier's books. Her intent is to build Chrissy's readerly strength by prescribing an order - <em>8+1</em>, and on finally ending with <em>After The First Death</em> at the very end.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
13 April 1985
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/57" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's response to Alyssa</a></p>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 lined paper
English
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Mike Romano's letter to Robert Cormier
<p>Mike Romano's fan letter is a one-page typed document addressed to Robert Cormier in the care of Dell Publishing. Mike had finished <em>We All Fall Down</em> and talked about the characters as if they were very real to him. He asked Cormier some questions like why did Jane have to come home early that night? He was worried about Jane. His letter shows an immersion into the text.</p>
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
11 October 1996
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/95" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's response to Mike Romano</a>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Robert Cormier's response to Maura Fabrice
In his letter to Maura Fabrice, Robert Cormier talks about using The Avenger character in <em>We All Fall Down</em> as a suspense device. He also talks about Buddy and Jane, the inevitability of the last scene, and how "heartbreaking" it was for him to write. He encouraged her to keep reading.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
27 October 1997
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/90" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Maura Fabrice's letter to Robert Cormier</a>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Maura Fabrice's letter to Robert Cormier
Maura Fabrice from Thornton, Pennsylvania, wrote a two-page typed fan letter on 3 Oct. 1997, addressed to Robert Cormier at Dell Publishers. She tells him that she is a high school student and has just read her first book by him, <em>We All Fall Down</em>. She is intrigued by the combination of romance and suspense that Cormier creates.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
3 October 1997
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/91" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's response to Maura Fabrice</a>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Cindy Ryal's letter to Robert Cormier
Cindy Ryal's letter to Robert Cormier faded and word-processed, dated 12 May 1989 (and it shares most of its text with a letter to Cormier by Kristy). Cindy asks about <em>After the First Death</em>'s characters and plot twists. She ends the letter saying her mother read it with her and together they enjoyed the heart-pounding suspense of the book.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
12 May 1989
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kristy Luzar's letter to Robert Cormier</a>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Robert Cormier letter to Justin
<p>In this brief, half-page letter of reply to Justin, Robert Cormier appears to address Justin's questions that may have been posed in his letter to Cormier about <em>Tunes for Bears to Dance To</em> and <em>After the First Death</em>. Cormier relates his purposes in selecting these novels' topics. He conveys his best wishes that Justin continues his reading life.</p>
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
22 October 1995
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Robert Cormier's response to Hall Alexander
<p>In this one-page, typed response to Hall Alexander, dated May 7, 2000, Robert Cormier explains one of the plot knots that Hall had queried him about regarding <em>We All Fall Down</em><em>.</em> Cormier describes a trail of consistent characters' reactions given the circumstances in which he put them. Always an advocate for an active reading life, Cormier encourages Hall's continued enjoyment and deep consideration of books.</p>
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
7 May 2000
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/74" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hall Alexander's letter to Robert Cormier</a>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Hall Alexander's letter to Robert Cormier
<p>This two-page, typed, undated fan letter to Robert Cormier comes from a high school student, Hall Alexander of Ottowa, Kansas. Hall is very caught up in <em>We All Fall Down</em>. He has questions about both events and characters and he has opinions, as well. He is not writing as part of a school project but appears to have written on his own. In many ways, Hall epitomizes the engaged reader.</p>
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/75" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's response to Hall Alexander</a>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Kenneth Melnick's letter to Robert Cormier 10 Dec 1981
In this second letter by Kenneth Melnick to Robert Cormier 10 Dec 1981, Kenneth alludes to a newspaper that his class made inspired by <em>After the First Death</em>. The letter appears to be a cover letter for the package from his school, Mamaroneck High School, in Mamaroneck, New York.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
10 December 1981
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/71" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kenneth Melnick's letter to Robert Cormier 29 Nov 1981</a></p>
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/73" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hallowell Headline Mrs. Gottenfeld's Class Project</a>
JPG, stationary paper
English
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Kenneth Melnick's letter to Robert Cormier 29 Nov 1981
This three-page typed letter on personalized stationery, written by ninth-grader Kenneth Melnick to Robert Cormier, dated 29 November 1981 is a series of specific questions about <em>After the First Death</em>. Kenneth has discussed his questions with both his English teacher and his mother who may have read the book, as well. Furthermore, Kenneth extends a generous invitation to Cormier to visit his school with all expenses paid.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
29 November 1981
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/72" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kenneth Melnick's letter to Robert Cormier 10 Dec 1981</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/73" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hallowell Headline Mrs. Gottenfeld's Class Project</a></p>
JPG, stationary
English
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Ryan Dvorak's letter to Robert Cormier
Ryan Dvorak, an eighth-grade student in Alabama, wrote to Robert Cormier on 15 April 2000. In his letter, he shares that Cormier's books move him and were the cause of his becoming a more avid reader because of the emotional pull of the books' portrayal of real-life kinds of events. He asks thematic questions. One was "were you bullied as a child?" and ties this question to several characters across Cormier's novels. He explains that his teacher had dinner with Cormier at a conference, which is how he got a hold of his address. This respective and appreciative letter asks for information for an author's project.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
15 April 2000
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/67" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jonathan Osborne's letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/141" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daniel Lowe's letter to Robert Cormier 20 April 2000</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/69" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's response to Daniel Lowe, Jonathan Osborne, and Ryan Dvorak</a></p>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Robert Cormier's response to Brooke Hausman and Carly Meltzer
In this one-page typed letter dated April 14, 1998, from Robert Cormier to Brooke Hausman and Carly Meltzer, he shares his writing technique of "gradual release," that it takes him 1.5 to 2 years to write a book, and that emotions are the engine for him. He advises here that would-be writers must "read, read, read" and write daily because "practice makes perfect." He says that he thinks he has received a lot of correspondence from students at their school, but "evidently" had misplaced it. He asked the girls to convey his best to classmates and that he would reply when the letters turn up.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
14 April 1998
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/62" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Brooke Hausman and Carly Meltzer's letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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Amanda Goetz's letter to Robert Cormier
Amanda Goetz, when she wrote this typewritten letter to Robert Cormier, was a freshman in high school. In this honest and well-written piece of correspondence, she attributes Cormier's novels as the factor that brought her back to reading. She related that, prior to reading his books, she had only read two books, period. She questions where the title came from for <em>Tunes for Bears to Dance To</em>.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
3 January 1996
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/55" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's response to Amanda Goetz</a>
JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper
English
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