What the Dormouse Said Lessons for Grown-ups from Children's Books

✍ Scribed by Gash, Amy

• Book ID: 108695684
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781565129061

✦ Synopsis

This one-of-a-kind collection reminds weary adults not to lose sight of the values and virtues they learned as kids. Here are over three hundred quotations from over two hundred well-loved children's books, such as Charlotte's Web , Peter Pan , Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , Eloise , Sounder , Number the Stars , and Goodnight Moon , organized by topic, among them Acceptance, Goodness, Family Woes, and Growing Old. On Silence: "I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking."--E. B.White, The Trumpet of the Swan. On Reverence: "Dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. . . . Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing."--Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting.

With clever illustrations from Pierre Le-Tan, here is a book to share with a friend or keep by your own bedside. It's the perfect gift for your sister, your mother, your...