Katherine Paterson and the Enlightened World of Fiction for Children
We all love quotes, don’t we? Quotes have the power to energize our spirits and enrich us with motivation. They are also a great way to motivate children. So, Here’s a treat for Katherine Paterson’s fans. Teach your kids these amazing quotes by one of the extraordinary children author’s. Don’t forget to explain it to them.
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read;
we have to give them something worth reading.
Something that will stretch their imaginations-
something that will help them make sense of their own lives
and encourage them to reach out toward people
whose lives are quite different from their own.”
“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”
“It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength. ”
“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.”
“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”
“You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.”
“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
“When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.”
“He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.”
“You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.”
“If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?”
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