Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.
Mo WillemsAll of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.
Mo WillemsElephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are dialogue-driven. They like books that are about issues that they live with, in their own elephantine and porcine ways.
Mo WillemsA book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.
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