"Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika."

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Source : Eva Ibbotson (2006). “The Star of Kazan”, Puffin

Eva Ibbotson

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