Winnie-the-Pooh

Title: Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Literature

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    More than sixty years ago, Christopher Robin took his friend Edward Bear - who came to be known to millions of fans as Winnie-the-Pooh - by one chubby paw and brought him unceremoniously downstairs. Pooh had endured, still slightly rotund, a Bear of Very Little Brain, but very generous of heart: the immortal creation of A. A. Milne, who wrote this book for his only son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape. 

    The adventures of Pooh and Piglet, Owl, Trigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore are timeless treasures of childhood. These tales still speak to all of us with the freshness that distinguishes true storytelling.

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 “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte ―

Sonnet 50 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 50

by William Shakespeare

How heavy do I journey on the way,

When what I seek, my weary travel's end,

Doth teach that ease and that repose to say

'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'

The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,

Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

As if by some instinct the wretch did know

His rider loved not speed, being made from thee:

The bloody spur cannot provoke him on

That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide;

Which heavily he answers with a groan,

More sharp to me than spurring to his side;

For that same groan doth put this in my mind;

My grief lies onward and my joy behind.

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 "There is no substitute for books in the life of a child." — May Ellen Chase ―

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“Reading aloud to your children is a gift that will last a lifetime.” ― Maya Angelou ―

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“I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.” ― Nnedi Okorafor ―

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“I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” ― Abraham Lincoln ―  

Just So Stories

Title: Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Literature

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    How did the camel get his hump? How did the leopard get his spots? How did the elephant get his trunk?

    These are questions that children around the world have asked for centuries, but it took Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's lively, hilarious stories to give them the answers. For one hundred years, these classic tales - drawn from the oral storytelling traditions of India and Africa and filled with mischievously clever animals and people - have entertained young and old alike. 

    Intertwined within these delightful tales are little pearls of wisdom about the pitfalls of arrogance and pride and the importance of curiosity, imagination, and inventiveness. Kipling's rhythm prose makes these tales perfect for sharing aloud with the whole family. 

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 “A thing about books is that they take the same amount of time to read whether you don’t like them at all or if they change your life forever.” — Joe Walters ―

Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 43

by William Shakespeare

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

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 “There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” — Jacqueline Kennedy ―

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“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?” — Sherman Alexie ―

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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” — Charles W. Eliot ―

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“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” — L.M. Montgomery —

American Tall Tales

Title: American Tall Tales

Author: Adrien Stoutenburg

Rating: ★★★★☆

Age Category: Middle Grade

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    "Here... are the most robust characters in American legend. Told by a poet with a poet's ear for the impact of words, these American mavericks walk and talk across the pages in a free, wide way, as they walked and talked across the free, wide America of pioneer days." - Publisher's Weekly -

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 “A picture is worth a thousand words but the memories are priceless.” — Unknown —

Sonnet 5 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 5

by William Shakespeare

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,

Will play the tyrants to the very same

And that unfair which fairly doth excel:

For never-resting time leads summer on

To hideous winter and confounds him there;

Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,

Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:

Then, were not summer's distillation left,

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,

Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,

Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:

But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,

Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

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 “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” — Michel Foucault —

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 “Memories are the invisible threads that keep us tied to the people we love.” — Unknown —

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 “Memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.” — Kahlil Gibran —

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 “Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.” — Zig Ziglar —