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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore -

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 "All men of action are dreamers." - James Huneker -

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 "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney -

The Trumpet of the Swan

Title: The Trumpet of the Swan

Author: E. B. White

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    Louis is a trumpeter swan. He is born one summer on a little pond in Canada, a long with four brothers and sisters. But Louis has a terrible problem. Unlike the rest of his joyfully noisy family, Louis can't make a single sound. And without a trumpet sound, his true love - the beautiful swan Serena - just ignores him. Louis's father promises to help. So does Sam Beaver, a boy who loves all wild animals. First Louis goes to school with Sam and learns to read and write. But swans can't read, so Louis still can't make himself understood. That's when Louis's father puts his honor aside and steals a brass trumpet to give his son a voice. Louis's determination to pay off his father's debt and to woo his own true love takes him far from the wilderness he loves. But his faith and his joy in life are always with him.

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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

Sonnet 46 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 46

by William Shakespeare

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie--
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes--
But the defendant doth that plea deny
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impanneled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part:
As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,
And my heart's right thy inward love of heart.

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 "Dreams are necessary to life." - Anais Nin -