Back to Wonder, Book Lines, April 2024

Back to Wonder

(C) Joyce Wycoff, 2024

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Back to Wonder

Back to Wonder … there is a certain type of book … a genre that crosses the boundaries of Dewey to arrive at a place where only the young of heart speak the language.

Wonder is where they are stored. This is your key.

Beware … the stairs are slippery when wet.

"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

― Annie

Dillard

Most of these books you probably read long ago. May each day of this glorious spring month bring you memories of those magical days, and may you have time to dip into them once more through the words and some of the videos included. What fun this project has been … joyce

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I hope this book encourages you, perhaps, to live courageously with more kindness for yourself and others and to ask for help when you need itwhich is always a brave thing to do.

— Charlie Mackesy

Video: YouTube movie trailer (1 minute) 1

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I f any creature tells you that it hungers, feed it.”

— Neil Gaiman

Video: YouTube Instructions (4 minutes)

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But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.”

—Madeleine L'Engle

Wrinkle in Time Trailer (1:49 minutes) 3

Video: YouTube

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Go back? he thought.

‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!'

So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”

— J. R. Tolkien

Video: YouTube movie trailer (3 minute)

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You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

The Little Prince| Official Trailer (2 minutes) 5

Video: YouTube

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Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us."”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden | Official Trailer (2 minutes) 6

Video: YouTube

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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: overcome fear, behold wonder."

— Richard Bach

Video: YouTube Illusions Trailer (2:29 minutes) 7

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But it was good to think he had this to come back to this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.”

— Kenneth Grahame

Video: YouTube Wind in the Willows (2:00 minutes)

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hy did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.’

'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

— E. B. White

Video: YouTube

Charlotte’s Web (2006) Trailer (2 minutes)

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Everything that happens is part of your wholeness. The sadness, the loss, the hurt, as well as the joy, the love, the friendship -it is all part of your tapestry ... remember that you are whole.”

― Katie O'Neill

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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.”

― Barbara Kingsolver

Video: YouTube*

Barbara Kingsolver| Kentucky Life (3:30 minutes)

*Don’t miss this one.

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Everyone's story is worth listening to; everyone has their own wisdom to share.”

— Forrest Carter Video: YouTube

The Education Of Little Tree Trailer (2 minutes)

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”

― Dr. Seuss

Video: YouTube

Voices By Paul: Story Time (6:41 minutes)

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Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.”

― Maurice Sendak

Video: YouTube

TalkyStories English lesson for children (3:12 minutes)

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I don’t know what I’d been expecting. You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it’s not that simple.”

― Richard Adams

Video: YouTube: Watership Down trailer (3:26 minutes)

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animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them, the earth would be an unhappy place.”

― Scott O'Dell

Island of the Blue Dolphins Trailer (1:05 minutes) 16

Video: YouTube

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One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it.”

― Robert C. O'Brien

Video: YouTube*

The Secret of Nimh Trailer (2:34 minutes)

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It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

―Lewis Carroll

Video: YouTube: Alice in Wonderland (1:58 minutes)

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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

Video: YouTube: Zen and the Art Animated overview (9:42 minutes)

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Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real, you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become.

Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.”

— Margery Williams Bianco

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Teacher seeks pupil. Must have earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person."

-- Daniel Quinn

Video: YouTube: Ishmael book trailer (7:41

minutes)

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What is life all about?” asked the fox.

"Love and being loved in return," replied the moon.

"In the end that's all that matters."

— Coralie Bickford-Smith

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If we walk far enough, says Dorothy, we shall sometime come to someplace."

Video: YouTube Wizard of Oz trailer (1:43 minutes)

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Dear old world’,

she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”

― L.M. Montgomery

Video: YouTube

Anne of Green Gables Official Trailer (1:42 minutes)

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Ain't 'cha gonna run?"

she asked. "No," he said, shoving the sheet away. "I'm gonna fly.”

― Katherine Paterson

Video: YouTube: Bridge to Terabithia trailer (1:59 minutes)

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If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

— A. A. Milne

Video: YouTube

Winnie the Pooh trailer (2:10 minutes)

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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

― Paulo Coelho

Video: YouTube* The Alchemist (13:09 minutes)

*long but worth it

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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous…"

— Roald Dahl

Video: YouTube Matilda movie trailer (2:19 minutes)

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All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”

― C.S. Lewis

Video: YouTube: Chronicles of Narnia trailer (2:22 minutes)

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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

— Douglas Adams

Video: YouTube

Douglas Adams Interview (22:26 minutes)