The Love Letter

About Anika Aldamuy Denise

Anika Aldamuy Denise is the Pura Belpré Honorwinning author of Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré; A Girl Named Rosita: The Story of Rita Moreno: Actor Singer Dancer Trailblazer!; and The Love Letter. A proud Puerto Rican daughter from Queens she now lives in Rhode Island with her family. Visit Anika online at www.anikadenise.com. Lucy Ruth Cummins made her author-illustrator debut with the ALA Notable picture book A Hungry Lion or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals. She has also illustrated This Is Not a Valentine written by Carter Higgins and The Love Letter written by Anika Aldamuy Denise as well as wrote and illustrated Stumpkin. As a teenager Lucy taught herself how to type on an old-fashioned typewriter with just her toes and even wrote a few love letters this way! The youngest of six children she was born in Canada where she lived in an actual log cabin; she was raised in Upstate New York and currently lives with her little family in Brooklyn New York. Visit her online at www.lucyruthcummins.squarespace.com.