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“The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Virginia Hamilton
“I call myself a wordkeeper, or a keeper of words. I enjoy words and looking at them on all sides… Words are magnificent… They form rhythms of living in meaningful prose… It is the force of my desire, my wish to make myself understood, that powers these words.”
Virginia Hamilton
“Stalagmite: a calcium carbonate deposit shaped like an icicle and formed by the dripping of percolating calcareous water … Stalagmite: dripping of percolating calcareous …”
Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear
“Mr. Small had to drag his son along. Thomas gaped at the stalactites, fearful that one might fall on him. He was terrified of the stalagmites that they had to walk through.”
Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear

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