Melissa Taylor
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| When a bull…dog finds a treasure map, he embarks on a treasure hunt for gold. Along the way, he meets a dragon…fly and a sun…flower, as well as other gold colored things, but none are what he’s looking for. Perfectly timed page turns between the comp ...more | |
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| I adore this historical story that shows passionate packhorse librarians traveling by horse in snow and heat to places where they weren't always welcome. But their efforts made a difference. In emotional life-changing moments, we see the gift of book ...more | |
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| Gorgeous, sensory writing immerses you in Eloise's reinvented life in a mysterious French garden with strict rules, a creepy poison garden, fantastical creatures and goddesses, and missing former employees. As Eloise settles in, she reflects on her b ...more | |
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“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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“Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.”
― Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential
― Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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Apr 12, 2007 12:04PM
Most recently, I really liked the Thirteenth Tale. Have you read the Other Boleyn Sister, that was very interesting and compelling!
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