Anna Egan Smucker

 
 

Yesterday I found out that an Australian newspaper wrote an article "Young Reader Inspired by Famous Namesake" about my Australian cousin Anna Egan (who I wrote about in this post) and me.  Here's a little bit of the article:

Anna's mum, Yoshi Egan, of Cleveland, said they were so excited to discover a children's author in West Virginia had the same name that they immediately began searching for her books in Australia.

The book Golden Delicious by Anna Egan Smucker had to be especially ordered from the US and Yoshi said Anna saved for the book herself.

"We then encouraged her to write to the author," Yoshi said.

"My husband told her not to expect a reply but she did get a reply and it came with a book signed by the author."

Click here for the whole story:  Young Reader Inspired by Famous Namesake

 


Comments

Brett Egan

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:41:23

Hello Anna, I am little Anna's dad and i would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for the friendship you have shown her. Her love of reading and writing has taken on a whole new meaning. She is achieving so much more. The news article was great to see. It was on page 3 so i can say my daughter is a page 3 girl lol. thanks again i am sure your writing has touched many more children that you are not aware of. regards, Brett

 

Lubna

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:50:23

Hi Anna,
What you say is so true. I too was read to as a little kid. I am now going to read story books to kids at a tiny school in the slum areas of Bangalore, South India. For this school, story books are a novelty. The kids have never had story books read to them. I am so nervous about this project. We have got a decent collection, thanks to people who opened their hearts and purse strings. The book should be reaching India shortly.
If you have any tips to share, please do post here.
http://writerscyberslate.blogspot.com/2009/08/story-book-collection-drive.html
Best,

 



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