Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls Format:Hardcover A Swim in a Pond

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Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls Format:Hardcover A Swim in a PondThe stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spark of hope that children's classics can ignite within us. Award winning children's author Mitali Perkins grew up steeped in stories escaping into her books on the fire escape of a Flushing apartment building and, later, finding solace in them as she navigated between the cultures of her suburban California school and her