Ocupation: Essayist
Life: April 1, 1855 - November 15, 1950
Birthday: April 1
Death: November 15
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
source: Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”
topic: Children, Book, Thinking, Children's Literature