Axel Scheffler – Anna Bidoonism

Reading is key

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

Charlie Cook — Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book
— Axel Scheffler & Julia Donaldson (2005).

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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— John Locke

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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— Sir Francis Bacon

Book Art (02) — “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
— John Steinbeck

Bookcover Art (13) — “Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.”
— Sigmund Freud

Bookcover Art (16) — “When we are not sure, we are alive.”
— Graham Greene

Bookcover Art 14 — “Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
— Steven Pinker

book___03 — Joseph Conrad also wrote The Secret Sharer (oh Jay)

Book Art (01) — “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
— Franz Kafka

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If you do not like to read, you have not [yet] found the right book.
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— J. K. Rowling