children-s-stories

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don__ have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!

It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

They did not know it was impossible, so they did it. Mark Twain

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

What do you know of the Knights?_ he asked. Fin shrugged. __ thought knights were only in children__ stories until a few days ago._ Jeannot smiled. __ man could do worse than to live in the stories of a child. There is, perhaps, no better remembrance._ __ntil the child grows up and finds out the stories aren__ true. You might be knights, but I don__ see any shining armor,_ Fin said. Jeannot stopped near the gate of the auberge and faced her. __ach time a story is told, the details and accuracies and facts are winnowed away until all that remains is the heart of the tale. If there is truth at the heart of it, a tale may live forever. As a knight, there is no dragon to slay, no maiden to rescue, and no miraculous grail to uncover. A knight seeks the truth beneath these things, seeks the heart. We call this the corso. The path set before us. The race we must run.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children__ book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness_ The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They__e embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do. We need stories so much that we__e even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won__ supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it.