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A gift of days: the greatest words to live by

Stephen Alcorn

Nonfiction

Ages 8 and up

Simon and Schuster, 2009, 1416967761

  Many of us are inspired by the actions of people past and present. We wish we too could go to the moon like Neil Armstrong. We wonder at the courage of Florence Nightingale and Martin Luther King Jr. We wish we could invent something remarkable like Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell. Over the years, many of these famous people have shared their thoughts or feelings in letters, speeches, songs, poems, and other writings, and now, thanks to Stephen Alcorn, we can read their words too.

  For this remarkable book, Stephen Alcorn has put together a collection of 366 quotations. On the pages, readers will find the words of Virginia Woolf, Tom Hanks, Roald Dahl, Bono, Jane Goodall, and many others. The quotations are organized by the birth date of the person who is being quoted, and every double page spread includes one of Stephen Alcorn’s extraordinary woodcut pictures. The chosen quotes are empowering, moving, thought provoking, and even funny. For every day of the year the reader can enjoy the words of, among others, poets, musicians, politicians, artists, athletes, and writers.

  With its gift of wonderful words, this is a book that readers will enjoy again and again. At the back of the book readers will find more information about the people who are quoted.

 

 

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