It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know
than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.
—Rachel Carson
One would never guess from the following excerpts that a certain nine-year-old would grow up to write more than 50 nonfiction children’s books. This is from my fourth-grade booklet on Florida:
The Cypress swamp is a part of the Everglades.…
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