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Dear Toni

By Cyndi Sand-Eveland.

Tundra Books, 2008.
9780887768767 (hc)

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Gene Tucks has the worst school assignment ever - to write a journal for 100 days. Gene is convinced she has a really dull life, but with playing on the field hockey team, her St. Bernard Sally with new pups, and her new friend Winn, Gene finds plenty to write about.

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About the Author

Cyndi Sand-Eveland is from Nelson, BC

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Author Cyndi Sand-Eveland has worked with elementary aged children for the past fifteen years as a teaching assistant for students with learning disabilities and ESL students. She has led storytelling and journal writing workshops for primary and intermediate students. She has also worked as a freelance storyteller, children's library assistant and sign language interpreter. Dear Toni and her original poetry were recently included in a workshop to inspire students to begin their own creative adventures in storytelling and journal writing. She currently lives on a farm just outside of Nelson, BC.

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Suggested Activities

Read more about the story and the author at the author’s website.
View and listen to Cyndi Sand-Eveland reading the first entry in a journal written by 6th-grade Gene Tucks in the YouTube clip below.
Write a letter to an imaginary classmate using Gene’s style of writing and doodling.
Continue writing letters for 5 days, or 10 days, or longer, and see if you begin to feel like the person is really receiving them. Describe how you imagine them to be.

Comments

Comment #1 posted on March 09, 2011, 3:15 PM

do you live on a farm or on a mountain ?

hayleigh and chyna, j.d.

Comment #2 posted on March 09, 2011, 4:03 PM

where do you live ?
do you have kids ?
where do you get your ideas from ?
how many rough copies do you do before you publish the book ?
where were you born ?
what else do you do other than write books?
how many people do you have in your family /
what was your best and favorite book you wrote ?

hayleigh, j.d.

Comment #3 posted on March 23, 2011, 4:52 PM

Hi Hayleigh and Chyna,
So I live in BC and I have two kids. My daughter is twenty and my son is sixteen. I gather ideas from not only my life, but the lives of people around me. I am more of a rewriter than a writer, I do oddles of drafts, and I enjoy the process very much. I was born in Saskatchewan, in a little town called Beinfait. I was supposed to be born in Estavan, but a characteristic of mine remains true to this day, I prefer to be early rather than late. So I was born enroute to Estavan, in Beinfait. My favourite book always seems to be the one I am working on. Dear Toni, is my only published book at this moment, but I will have another book next December called, A Tinfoil Sky and hope to have a third book out the following year. I've enjoyed writing them all and have definitely grown to care about the characters a ton.

Cyndi Sand-Eveland, author

Comment #4 posted on June 22, 2011, 2:18 PM

Thank you for donating these book to our school. I really enjoyed having the Galla come to the school. But the most thing im really happy about is that the Galla turned out just the way I wanted! I also got a book from author Dear Toni and the book autographed book. Thank you so very much.

Hope, John Diefenbaker School, Prince Ablbert

Comment #5 posted on November 24, 2011, 6:52 PM

when were you born?

alex, st.brendan

Comment #6 posted on December 01, 2011, 1:56 PM

how many books did you write

sherise, fox creek

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