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Lesley Beake
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“Reading is the greatest gift I can think of giving, partly because it was given so generously to me. Every member of my family read to me, gave me books, encouraged me towards the library, and told me stories. I don't remember a time when my mind was not filled with water babies and girls who were orphaned and sent to wicked relatives; children who lived in a barn (until their parents miraculously returned from an air disaster in South America) or Mad Hatters and tea parties.”
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“The simple fact is that if we give our children enough books, of the right kind, they will choose to read. ... In fact, I would say, there is no more important issue in education right now than that of reading – reading in home languages; in English; local and the best books published elsewhere. We just have to give our children that gift – whether or not we are wearing wings.”
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“From teaching, to writing for children, to writing for children at school was a fairly logical process.”
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“Children are the most important thing. Then books and then network of friends and supporters and people who work with us.”
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