The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
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The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

— Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
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