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Beautifully said. :)

It's important to write a book with balance. If you can anticipate a story, it's as if you've already read it. #WritingWednesday

I love this illustration by Inge Löök! <3

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I was thinking the other day of a Facebook post I did a few years ago about autographing a young boy’s book. The kid was leaning up against me as I signed. His... mother said, Stop leaning on her, and the boy looked up at his mother and said, It’s okay, mom. She knows me. I was so moved by the notion that we knew each other because of the stories I had written, the stories he had read. Looking back on it now, after a year of no signings, no physical contact, I can still feel that connection. I can feel those readers leaning in. I want them to know I’m leaning back. We’re leaning on each other with story. See more

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Hope you all have a great night :)

Happy new year everyone!

Best sport ever! #bookworm

That's just how it works! #booklover

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Everyone is a Reader!

To read a book for the first time is to make a new acquaintance; to read it for a second time is to meet an old friend.

Imagine a book where Bookworms run out of books and have no choice but to take over the world. (Source: Twinkling Chimes Reviews via Twitter)

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And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. T...here is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost ...her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her. The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures." Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life. During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable. Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (she bought one) that had returned to Berlin. "It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl. Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home. A year later Kafka died. Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written: "Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way." See more

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. ~ Charles Scriber Jr

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Thank you, Cris Mcmahan for sharing this with Book Worms! ~Renee

I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open,unending, free ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response i...s magnificent: Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all! Kurt Vonnegut ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I was 15 I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of getting to know you questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes. And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them. And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them. And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could Win at them.

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes... of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. ~ Virginia Woolf See more

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Again! (and again and again) - Kids rarely want a book read to them just once. What's the current AGAIN book in your home?

"I'm the fox from the book on my shelf"! Halloween at 'school' today brings Raising Readers books to life! *Learn more about Everybunny Dance: https://www.ra...isingreaders.org/book/Everybunny-Dance/1409/ *Watch the video on our read aloud page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/raisingreadersreadaloud/ See more

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Today I'd like to sit and read Forget I have a job I need Ignore the things I have to do And just enjoy a book or two

The first volume in the long-running girl detective series, "The Secret of the Old Clock," was published 90 years ago under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. In a tr...ibute to the iconic sleuth, author Theodore Jefferson writes, Agency. It is that which forms the foundation for any hero’s ability to save the day. In America, agency for teenage girls in literature made its debut in 1930 in the person of Nancy Drew. This original Mighty Girl character paved the way for many more heroic female characters and inspired generations of real-life girls and women. Ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson and later revised by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, the first volume of Nancy Drew had a huge influence on young readers. Jefferson writes, Nancy Drew provided them with stories of someone like themselves who had a positive effect on the world instead of passively sitting at home She is a character with that magical ‘what if’ question woven into her identity, and one that effortlessly captures the imaginations of readers by allowing them to participate in a world where the answers to that question are just as entertaining as the stories themselves. At the time, some viewed Nancy Drew as a poor role model, contradicting adults while she squared off with the villains she is mechanically inclined and at the same time doesn’t act like most people in the 1930s would have expected a teenage girl to act. In fact, many libraries and bookstores refused to carry the Nancy Drew stories. Despite -- or because of -- that disapproval, kids collected the books voraciously, and in the midst of the Depression, used copies were shared and traded like trading cards are today. As a result, any kid, even those who couldn’t afford new books, would very likely get to read every adventure starring their favorite character. The tremendous influence of Nancy Drew continues to this day asserts Jefferson: It is difficult to overstate how powerful Nancy Drew’s presence remains in literature and in other media. She has influenced film, comics, video games and animation for [90] years, and will continue to do so as long as teenage girls take the lead as our heroes in the imaginative worlds of adventure." To share your love of the Nancy Drew series with a new generation, there is a beautiful box set of the first four classic Nancy Drew books at https://www.amightygirl.com/nancy-drew-mystery-stories There is also a new 90th Anniversary Collection of the Nancy Drew Diaries for ages 8 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/nancy-drew-diaries-90th-anniver For younger children, there is a fun set of Nancy Drew chapter books designed for new readers, "Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew Collection," for ages 6 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/nancy-drew-clue-crew-collection Adult fans will also love the Nancy Drew Dolman Sleeve Shirt, available in women's sizes small to 3XL, at https://www.amightygirl.com/nancy-drew-dolman-shirt Long-time fans will also enjoy the 1000-piece Nancy Drew Puzzle featuring dozens of the classic book covers at https://www.amightygirl.com/nancy-drew-jigsaw-puzzle To learn more about the fascinating story of Nancy Drew ghostwriter Millie Benson, we recommend the youth biography on "The Secret Case of the Nancy Drew Ghostwriter and Journalist" for ages 10 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/missing-millie-benson For more girl-empowering books starring mystery-solving Mighty Girls for all ages, check out our blog post, Elementary, My Dear Mighty Girl: 50 Books Starring Mighty Girl Detectives at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=12393 To read Jefferson's entire essay on The Mary Sue, visit http://bit.ly/1bk0r1o

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Visit your neighborhood Little Free Library this weekend and pick up a good book! Find one on our world map: http://ed.gr/cuvel #RBG #sharebooks

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Right?! What a great idea! (Sutto & Vanessa)

When she was in 5th grade, Sabrina Regalado fell in love with my baseball card adventures. Now she’s 24, and Sabrina is sharing the books with the 5th grade cl...ass she teaches at Riverway School in Visalia CA. Hey, if YOU used to read my books when you were a kid, and now you’re reading them with YOUR kids, how about a photo? See more