Happy Birthday Beatrix Potter!

I prefer birthday cake, but birthday carrots are good too.
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Beatrix Potter was born in London on July 28, 1866. She wrote and illustrated 23 books between 1902 and 1930. Some of her most famous stories are The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. 


Beatrix Potter loved animals and nature. When she was a little girl she had rabbits, mice, bats, and a hedgehog! When she was older, she worked to conserve the Lake District in the UK.


If you want to learn more about Beatrix Potter, you can check out peterrabbit.com/uk. Her books are free to download or read on-line at Project Gutenberg. You can also listen to The Tale of Peter Rabbit in this Children's Classic Literature VideoBook.

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Happy Birthday E. B. White!

Some Author! . . . Terrific! . . . Radiant!
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E. B. White was born in Mount Vernon, New York on July 11, 1899.  He is best known for his books Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). All of these books have been made into movies, but I really recommend reading the books first. They were some of my favorites when I was a kid!

If you want to know about E. B. White's inspiration for his stories, take a look at this letter he wrote to respond to his readers' questions.

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The Masked Pixie's Top Ten Picks: Quotes About Books and Reading

Do you like reading? Do you like reading about reading? Here are 10 rad quotes about reading for you to read! Are you ready? Get reading!

1. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." 

     - Dr. Seuss (from I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!)

2. "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." 

     - Frederick Douglass

3. "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." 

     - Walt Disney

4. "You cannot open a book without learning something." 

     - Confucius

5. "A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

     - Madeleine L'Engle

6. "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." 

     - Chinese Proverb

7. "Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." 

     - G. K. Chesterton

8. "A house without books is like a room without windows."

     - Horace Mann

9. "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." 

     - Abraham Lincoln

10. "Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!" 

     - Neil Gaiman

BONUS DR. SEUSS QUOTE: "Be awesome! Be a book nut!"