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It's important to do research when one of your main characters is a big cat.

High school book club book #2...

Constant pursuit of enough 5th grade titles...

The vigor of contempt and rage elicited by Eleanor Roosevelt continues to frame much of the discourse about women with power, access to power, or the appearance of power (pg. 3).

Ashley Bryan says, "I was very fortunate in that it never occurred to [my parents] that I would not go on doing what I loved to do...Now when I speak to schoolchildren, I tell them, 'You need encouragement. If you can't get it at home, knock on the door next door and keep on knocking all the way down until you come to someone who will encourage you in the constructive, creative work that you are doing."

Ashley Bryan says, "I was very fortunate in that it never occurred to [my parents] that I would not go on doing what I loved to do...Now when I speak to schoolchildren, I tell them, 'You need encouragement. If you can't get it at home, knock on the door next door and keep on knocking all the way down until you come to someone who will encourage you in the constructive, creative work that you are doing."

"the hint about Victorians, Madeleine was learning, was that they were a lot less Victorian than you thought...Against tremendous odds, without anyone giving them the right to take up the pen or a proper education, Anne Finch, Jane Austen, George Eliot, he Brontes, and Emily Dickinson had taken up the pen anyway...creating new literature...playing a man's game while subverting it."