Revisit & Rediscover Author Katherine Hannigan Thanks Booksellers

Author Katherine Hannigan recently wrote a letter thanking booksellers on the Revisit & Rediscover panel for selecting her novel Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World (Greenwillow Books) as a Revisit & Rediscover title for children ages 9–12. The title is featured on the Winter 2015–2016 Kids’ Indie Next List.

The backlist favorite, first published in 2004, was a New York Times bestseller as well as a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner, and appeared on more than 25 state award lists.

December 2015

Dear Revisit & Rediscover panel members,

Thank you.

Naming Ida B to the inaugural Revisit & Rediscover list was such a lovely and unexpected surprise. It’s an honor and a gift.

Most of all, though, I’m grateful because I still believe in that book—from the dedication, to the talking trees (Viola and Paulie T, especially), from the way that family loves one another and how I wish every kid could have Ms. Washington for a teacher, to the decision to print the pages on recycled paper. I still cry when I read the part where Ida B’s mom tells her, “I will always be with you. Always,” and when Ida B tells the wise old tree, “I am just so sorry.”

So thank you very much for believing Ida B is a book that’s worth reading and sharing, and for thinking that the world’s a better place with Ida B, Rufus, Ms. Washington, and Paulie T in it.

And thank you for putting books into people’s hands so the stories go into their hearts. You make the world better, too.

I hope we get the chance to talk for a while in Denver.

Best wishes, 

Katherine Hannigan