fiction book Quotes

“Fritz had had to stop himself or interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily -as we shall see with Fritz’s own story in a page or two. Still Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.”

When he gets home he gets changed into his jeans and shirt realizing that he’s finally a boy again.

It allows boys and girls to see each others worlds as in the story, Bill is traumatized to find that he cannot play football because he is a girl.

The boys take up the whole playground playing while the girls must sit at the edge of the playground.

The day is filled with adventures and events that Bill has never before encountered and is a huge learning curve for him. At school Bill is faced with a variety of obstacles that force him to see the way that girls are treated.

At school that day, he faces the reality that girls are treated very differently from boys while he struggles in vain to stop his dress getting dirty.

Bill finds is so strange being a girl and everything is so different. He spends his day being forced to keep his dress clean but eventually it gets ruined.

“This is a warm wonderful book about friendship and difference.” “There once was a rabbit who had never seen a wolf... and a young wolf who had never seen a rabbit.” And so the tale begins.

Wolfy teaches Tom to run really, really fast enabling him to run much faster than the other rabbits. Wolfy teaches his friend about being afraid.

One day Wolfy frightens Tom so badly while playing the game that the scared little rabbit rushes to his burrow and vows to never come out again.

Wolfy is totally devastated. What in the world has he done to his very best friend?

The wolf’s uncle dies before teaching him how to hunt. Since Wolfy has never even seen a rabbit, he doesn’t realize that the two species are natural enemies.

“Johnny dragged on for a few more day, but every day seemed emptier, more pointless. He could see no end to it; no reward at the end of the long and tiring time. His mind was strolling already.”

“Why hadn’t he had a chance, Johnny wondered bitterly. Other men came from the farms. Other men had some schooling. What was so different about Nelson?”

’Yukin knew this trader, had seen him and his men on their mounts running down men, women and children on the plains. He led a tight band of twelve hardened veterans. Yet there were other Akcarum here- more than Yukin could accurately count. ”

“Dolf was feeling troubled again. Stealthily, he glanced at his watch. Heavens! Half-past four! He had completely forgotten the time. There was no possibility now of this visiting that medieval town.”

“The boa followed his mistress when she went shopping. Everyone was astonished. Madame Bodot knitted a long woolen sweater for her pet to wear on cold days.”

“The novel is set in Britain and written for a British child, although that should not deter a resourceful reader. There are maps to help with locations.”