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Stephanie Lisa Tara
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"'I like good, strong words that mean something!'
~Jo March"

~Little Women, 1868

#LouisaMayAlcott #rarebooks #bibliophile #YAFiction #Feminist #ladiesoflit #ClassicLit #ClassicBooks #BookSky #BlueSkyCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #KidLitChat
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October 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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🌷“If you look the right way—you can see that the whole world....is a garden!”🌷

~The Secret Garden, 1911

#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #Gardensky #NatureSky #Kidlitart #BookSky #BlueSkyCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #KidLitChat #rarebooks #bibliophile #books #WritingCommunity #childrensbooks #writerslift
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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😼 "We're all mad here!" ~Cheshire Cat 😼

~Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865

#LewisCarroll #rarebooks #bibliophile #antiquebooks #Kidlitart #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #PicturebookSky #Kidlitart #WritingCommunity #childrensbooks #KidLitCommunity #writerslift #Blueskycommunity #writerslift
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🛶 “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” 🛶

~The Wind in the Willows 1908

#KennethGrahame #friendship #BookSky #WritingCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #childrensbooks #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity #BlueSkyCommunity
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🌳"Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy; 'come, Boy, climb up my trunk, swing from my branches and be happy!'"🌳

~The Giving Tree, 1964

#ShelSilverstein #BookSky #WritingCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #childrensbooks #kidlit #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity #BlueSkyCommunity
#illustration
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🧌 “My dear Bilbo!” Gandalf said. "Something is the matter with you! You are NOT the HOBBIT that you were!” 🧌

~The Hobbit, 1937

#JRRTolkien #Hobbit #BookSky #YASky #YA #WritingCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #MG #MGLit #childrensbooks #kidlit #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity #BlueSky #BlueSkyCommunity
September 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🌹"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow...and​ the SECRET GARDEN bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles~"🌹

~The Secret Garden, 1911

#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #Gardensky #NatureSky #Kidlitart #BookSky #BlueSkyCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #KidLitChat #BlueSky #Love
September 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🇫🇷 "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines...lived twelve little girls in two straight lines...the smallest one was Madeline..." 🇫🇷

~Madeline, 1939

#LudwigBemelmans #Kidlitart #picturebooks #BookSky #WritingCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #illustration #kidlit #KidLitChat #France #Paris
September 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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🚂“Puff, puff, chug, chug," went the Little Blue Engine, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!"🚂

~The Little Engine That Could, 1930

#WattyPiper #Train #Kidlitart #picturebooks #BookSky #WritingCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #childrensbooks #illustration #kidlit #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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♠️ “Why...sometimes I've believed as many as SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS before breakfast!” ♣️

~Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865

#LewisCarroll #Kidlitart #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #EduSky #PicturebookSky #Kidlitart #WritingCommunity #childrensbooks #illustration #KidLitCommunity #writerslift
September 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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🧸"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your HEART!"🧸

~Winnie-The-Pooh, 1926

#AAMilne #Kidlitart #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #EduSky #PicturebookSky #Kidlitart #picturebooks #WritingCommunity #BookClub #childrensbooks #illustration #kidlit #KidLitCommunity #ArtSky #writerslift
September 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🛶 "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in BOATS!" 🛶

~The Wind In The Willows, 1908

#KennethGrahame #Kidlitart #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #EduSky #PicturebookSky #WritingCommunity #childrensbooks #KidLitCommunity
September 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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🐷“Wilbur didn’t want food—he wanted LOVE!”🐷

~Charlotte's Web, 1952

#EBWhite #Kidlitart #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #EduSky #PicturebookSky #Kidlitart #picturebooks #WritingCommunity #BookClub #childrensbooks #illustration #kidlit #KidLitCommunity #ArtSky #writerslift #OnceUponATime #books #art
September 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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❤️“REAL isn't how you are made—it's a thing that happens to you. When a child LOVES YOU for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you—then you become REAL."❤️

~The Velveteen Rabbit, 1922

#MargeryWilliams #Kidlitart #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #EduSky #PicturebookSky #KidSky
September 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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🏡THIS LITTLE HOUSE SHALL NEVER BE SOLD for gold or silver—and she will live to see our great-great-grandchildren’s great-great-grandchildren living in her!”🏡

~The Little House 1942

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September 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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🌼🌸🌺“HE WOULDN'T FIGHT AND BE FIERCE, no matter what they did. He just sat and smelled the flowers"~ 🌼🌸🌺

~The Story of Ferdinand, 1936

#MunroLeaf #Peace #Kidlitart #picturebooks #BookSky #WritingCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #childrensbooks #illustration #kidlit #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity #books
September 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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🦆 ″‘Don’t you worry,’ said Mrs. Mallard. ‘I know all about bringing up children.’ And she did.” 🦆

~Make Way For Ducklings, 1941

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September 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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🐇"If you run away," said his mother, "I'll run after you...for you are my little bunny, and if you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to!"🐇

~The Runaway Bunny, 1942

#MargaretWiseBrown #Kidlitart #picturebooks #BookSky #WritingCommunity #KidLitSky #BookClub #art
August 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🐟 "One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish, Black fish, Blue fish, Old fish, New fish!" 🐟

~One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish; 1960

#DrSeuss #fish #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidsbooks #kidlit #picturebooks #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity #books #thursdayvibes
August 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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📦"A box is just a box...unless it's not a box."📦

~Not A Box, 2006

#AntoinettePortis #boxes #creativity #imagination #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidsbooks #kidlit #picturebooks #BookSky #KidLitSky #characters #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity #books #kids #ImaginationSky #Tuesdayvibe #fun
August 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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🐥"You are not a kitten.
You are not a hen.
You are not a dog.
You are not a cow.
You are a bird, and you are my mother"🐥

~Are You My Mother, 1960

#PDEastman #Motherhood #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidsbooks #kidlit #picturebooks #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity
August 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🐇"Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden Peter—your Father had an accident there—he was put in a PIE by Mrs. McGregor!"🐇

~The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1901

#BeatrixPotter #rabbits #England #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidlit #picturebooks #BookSky #KidLitSky #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity
August 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🍝“Bubble, bubble, pasta pot,
Boil me some pasta, nice and hot;
I’m hungry and it’s time to sup,
Boil enough pasta to fill me up.”🍝

~Strega Nona, 1975

#TomiedePaola #Italy #pasta #Nonna #Magic #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidlit #picturebooks #BookSky #WritingCommunity #KidLitSky #kids
August 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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❤️ “Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.' ❤️

~The Velveteen Rabbit, 1922

#MargeryWilliams #childrensbooks #BookSky #KidLitSky #WritingCommunity #KidLitChat #KidLitCommunity
August 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🦛"I'm your best friend, George! I always know where to find you."🦛

~George and Martha, 1972

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August 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM