Don't you just love it when you come across words that are moving/inspiring/so perfectly descriptive that you can effortlessly picture the described in your mind? Today, in my read-aloud chapter-book time with my eldest, I discovered part of a paragraph in Charlotte's Web that I found to be a treasure.
"The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell--as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world. It smelled of grain and of harness dressing and of axle grease and of rubber boots and of new rope..."
Isn't that marvelous? I guess that is one reason right there that CW is a winner of the Newbery Honor.
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