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Zilpha Keatley Snyder

American Author

Born: May 11, 1927

Died: Oct 7, 2014

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Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood. Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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I seemed to have been born reading. Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Reading Born Seemed Been

At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer. Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Age Eyes Own My Own Writer Became Least Eight

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing. Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings. Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup. Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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