non-fiction Quotes

“Happy’s very smart,′ Noah said. ‘What can he do?’ asked Sammy. ‘He can sit,’ said Noah. ‘Happy-sit, boy!’ Happy sat.”

“He’s not so good at that yet,′ said Noah. At Sammys house, Sammy said, ‘Noah, meet my budgie, Sweetie.’ ‘Hello, Sweetie,’ said Noah. ‘Sweetie likes you,’ said Sammy. ‘How can you tell?’ asked Noah.”

“Nora was very anxious to go down to the beach to dig, so as soon as supper was over they set off together. But they had a disappointment that evening, for when they got ear the sea they bound that it was high tide, and there could be no digging till to-morrow.”

“jemima Pinchin was seven years old and lived at number twenty-eight Lime Street. She had an older brother, Juke, who was a show off, and a baby brother, Joe, who yelled a lot.”

The story and the pictures make you want to see the lovely gardens, Japanese bridge, and lily pond for yourself.

“Only by courageously facing the stark revelations can Sky and Holder hope to heal their emotional scars and find a way to live and love without boundaries. ”

“When a young girl named Amelia smiles at her neighbor, she has no idea how much her simple smile will affect the world.”

″... one of his students, kickboxer Sensacia Golpes decided to be a teacher, too. She had her cousin record her in the plaza and put the video online.”

“And so the good feelings make their way round the world.

“A series of kindly acts comes full circle in this heartwarming, yet never saccharine story.”

“The mostly unseen him background inside the studio glows with color. Only a loose close-up of the Cézanne homage actually appears..”

“By starting a miniature sheep run, she moves them all to safety, showing her family not only that she is ready for the big sheep run next year...”

“Every month something different happens in the world of nature: birds are migrating, there’s a spring tide, or it’s harvest time.”

“How can we find out if it’s true?′ asked Arnold. ‘We could say we won’t believe in the Something unless we see it ourselves.’ ‘No one would listen to us,’ said Amelia. Grown-ups mostly listen to other grown-ups.”

“But plants do not need to eat other plants or animals for food; they can make their own food. The green parts of a plant do this by making food from carbon dioxide and water.. The process by which plants make this food is called photosynthesis, which means ‘building with light’.”

“This is a wonderful chapter book about Abe Lincoln, and his sons, Willie and Tad. It centers first on Willie, and then after Willie’s death, upon Tad.”