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Middle-school librarians Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan prove that two heads are better than one when it comes to discussing YA and children's books
Quotes about Books
- “We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we
need books, time and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once
upon a time lasts forever.” — Philip Pullman’s acceptance speech for the
Carnegie medal – 1996
- “We read to know we are not alone.” C.S. Lewis
- “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.” Stephen King in “Will We Close the Book on Books?” Time Magazine, 19 June 2000: 92.
- The library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to the shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren’t also dangerous just because reading them didn’t make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader’s brain. Terry Pratchett. Soul Music.
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