“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” — Anne Bradstreet --

 “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America” --

 “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” - Ellen DeGeneres -

The Dragons of Blueland

  

Title: The Dragons of Blueland

Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett

Rating: ★★★★☆

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    "...the last of the books about Elmer Elevator and the flying baby dragon...concerns Elmer's plan to outwit the hunters who have organized an expedition to capture the dragon's family. The plan is ingenious and plausible, the fantasy well sustained, and the lithographs by Ruth Chrisman Gannett even more delightful, if possible, than those in My Father's Dragon." -- Library Journal (starred review)

    "Delectable, straight-faced nonsense." -- Chicago Tribune

 “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland --

Sonnet 25 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 25

by William Shakespeare

Let those who are in favour with their stars

Of public honour and proud titles boast,

Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,

Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.

Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread

But as the marigold at the sun's eye,

And in themselves their pride lies buried,

For at a frown they in their glory die.

The painful warrior famoused for fight,

After a thousand victories once foil'd,

Is from the book of honour razed quite,

And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:

Then happy I, that love and am beloved

Where I may not remove nor be removed.

“Every winter has its spring.” — H. Tuttle --