Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.
In Dark Places, May we Never be truly Alone.....~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books
You know you've reached rock bottom when you're standing on the beach, looking to the horizon, and you don't notice you'r ankle-deep in dead fish.
He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course there was no gold star next to his name. He had already done three things wrong: First, he had kno...
Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (espec...
She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.
Fear of new ideas breeds angry head spiders that have been known to attack.
Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared, taking Patch with him. Grandmama had cleared away the tea. She...
Autism: The Happy Kingdom is an exceptional book full of fantasy and play. It provides us with a crucial message presented in such a sweet and magical way. You will fall in love with the King, Queen,...
I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversatio...
He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come...
Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.
There's nothing greater than having a heart filled with love...& eyes filled with light:-)
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.