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Letter from Robert Cormier to Janet Mitzner
Cormier writes about his allusion to The Wizard of Oz in I Am the Cheese as well as the homosexual references in the novel.
Janet Mitzner's letter to Robert Cormier 3 February 1978
Janet, a doctoral candidate, writes Cormier with a number of questions about I Am the Cheese. One question is about the reference to "The Farmer in the Dell." Janet also proposes several questions regarding potential plot holes in the Farmer family's…
Gloria's letter and poem to Robert Cormier 3 March 1988
Gloria introduces her poem to Cormier and shares her aspiration to be a professional writer. Included is a poem she wrote based on I Am the Cheese.
Letter from Robert Cormier to Gloria 4 April 1988
Cormier shares brief feedback on Gloria's I Am the Cheese poem.
Emotion in writing typescript
Cormier writes about how different emotional revelations drove him to write The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese, and Fade and how crucial emotion is to the success of his writing.
Robert Cormier's conference talk on fear - draft
Cormier describes how the source of fear is not in monsters on the screen or in books but those in our minds. He also describes a mother reading his novels along with her eighth-grade son.
Letter from Robert Cormier to Art 17 January 1987
Cormier responds to Art's concerns about the Salem censorship battle by describing the Panama City censorship of I Am the Cheese. The idea of protecting children through censorship and precautionary censorship makes up a large portion of the letter.
Letter from Robert Cormier to 8th grade English class at Mason Middle School 18 March 1995
Cormier shares I Am the Cheese FAQ responses (written by Fitchburg State College students) with students interested in institutional victimization.
Student project on I Am the Cheese
Becky Mitchell and Andrea Babcock's letter and attached class poems, illustrations of book quotes, and reader's theatre script and props list inspired by I Am the Cheese.
I Am the Cheese in Leominster and Fitchburg, MA
12 photographs of Leominster and Fitchburg locales featured in I Am the Cheese.
Virginia R. Monseau's essay "Achieving Power Through Young Adult Literature: Studying Cormier's Protagonists"
Monseau considers student letters to Cormier's characters to argue that identifying with Cormier's characters helps students develop strength in their own identity.
Speech on childhood reading, writing, and the fear behind censorship PART II
This speech addresses Cormier's childhood and adolescent reading and writing. It includes the Introduction to his 20th Anniversary edition of I Am the Cheese and letters with objectors.
Speech on childhood reading, writing, and the fear behind censorship PART I
This speech addresses Cormier's childhood and adolescent reading and writing. It includes the introduction to his 20th Anniversary edition of I Am the Cheese and letters from objectors.
Teens praising Cormier's novels
Quotes from teen readers.