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He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

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There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

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American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.

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Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

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It’s a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry’s vision and authority…the film…illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.

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I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.

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We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul.

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