Letter Library

Chisholm Catholic College Library > Words in Deep Blue

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Our story begins with a Year 8 student who fell in love with an amazing book. This book was called Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley.

In Words in Deep Blue, the Letter Library is housed up the back of a second-hand bookshop called Howling Books. It is a set of shelves where the bookshop keeps copies of books that people love. Customers are allowed to write in the books. They can underline words and highlight their favourite lines. They can leave notes in the margins; leave thoughts about the meaning of things discovered in the book. It is called a Letter Library because a lot of people write more than a note in the margin – they write whole letters and put them between the pages of books. And strangers, who love the same books that they do, write back.

Inspired by Cath Crowley’s incredible novel, the student approached Library staff and asked if we could create our very own Letter Library at Chisholm Catholic College for book lovers to spread some book love. This dream has finally come to fruition with the launch of our very own Letter Library.