Maya Angelou Likes to Laugh

If Maya Angelou starts a book club, can I be a part of it? In a recent interview in the New York Times, Ms. Angelou shared that she’s reading Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan, rereading “The Raven” and other poems by Edgar Allen Poe, and for a lighter take on life, a little gem from our own shelves titled, Children’s Letters to God by Stu Hample. She says,

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, Children’s Letters to God. You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, “Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.”

Here are a few more fervent wishes, confessions, confidences, praise, and thanks from Children’s Letters to God:

Dear God,
Are you really invisible or is that just a trick?
Lucy

Dear God,
Did you mean for giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
Norma

Dear God,
I think the stapler is one of your greatest inventions.
Ruth M.

Dear God,
In bible times did they really talk that fancy?
Jennifer

Dear God,
I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that OK?
Neil