CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Readers are lucky – they will never be bored or lonely.” ~Natalie Babbitt, American author Contribution to Once Upon a Time…Celebrating the Magic of Children’s Books in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Reading is Fundamental (1986) New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, p. 45 Context Extended excerpt [Essay contribution to a collection honoring the Reading is Fundamental (RIF) program]: “With books, your inner world has no walls. And in reading – and writing – stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It’s amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet