If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers then the great childrens books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers then the great childrens books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
Laura Miller

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Do the children who prefer books set in the real ordinary workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely
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I can hazily remember long ago having adults librarians friends parents suggest to me that I liked books with magic because I wanted to escape from a reality that by implication I lacked the gumption to face.
- Laura Miller

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers then the great childrens books suddenly turn up very high on the list. Laura Miller

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers then the great childrens books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
Laura Miller