If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.
Because, explained Mary Rommely simply, the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that...
Tell the truth and write the story.
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of...
Good-bye, Francie
The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.
Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you’re making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not...
Why can't they, she thought bitterly, just give the doll away without saying I am poor and she is rich? Why couldn't they just give it away without all the talking about it?
They lived comfortably and it was a good life they had...happy and full of small adventures.And they were so young and loved each other so much.
You know, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something com...
She looked quickly at the little golden-brown pottery jug which stood at the end of the librarian's desk. It was a season indicator. In the fall it held a few sprigs of bittersweet and at Christmas ti...
You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you.
Anybody, said Johnny, carried away by his personal dream of Democracy, can ride in one of the hansom cabs, provided, he qualified, they get the money. So you can see what a free country we got here.Wh...
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and...
All she’d notice was that some things were strange because they reminded her of Brooklyn and that other things were strange because they were so different from Brooklyn. I guess there is nothing new,...
She did not hate Miss Garnder anymore. She didn't like her, but she felt sorry for her. Miss Garnder had nothing in all the world excepting a sureness about how right she was.
It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.
Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
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