“I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.”

—  Anne Fadiman

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

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American essayist, journalist and magazine editor 1953

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