Eleven year-old Maria Foster talks to inanimate objects. She has conversations with cats and trees, too. It is clear she is curious and smart and the conversations she begins with her parents, based on what she has observed in the world or something she read leave them bewildered, as if they just don’t know what …
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Madamoiselle Misfortune, Carol Ryrie Brink (1935)
“What’s the child looking at,” asked Miss Weatherwax?“Oh, everything!,” said Alice. “It’s all so beautiful!…If you’ve never seen it before, you ought to take a long, long look. You’ll never see it just this way again.”…said the little old American woman, “That’s right, I’ll never see it again for the first time, will I? Well, …
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