“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” — Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (via wordsfromya)
Extra Yarn (2012) by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen.
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“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.” — Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty (via timetravel-teacup)
Mo Willems: Knuffle Bunny
The Hundred Dresses, illustration by Louis Slobodkin
“Anything is bloomable.” — Sharon Creech, Bloomability (via overturetoillumination)
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“…we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made out of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you.” — Wonder by R.J. Palacio (via fewmorepages)
illustratedladies: 1962 Crosby Newell Bonsall (American illustrator, 1921-95) from “Who’s A Pest?”
(via teachingliteracy)