![]() ![]() "Writing has always been the other side of reading for me it never occurred to me not to make up stories. I never quite lived up to Sara Crewe’s standard, but I tried awfully hard. I can’t remember the first time I read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s but this particular story, about a little girl all alone in a strange land who told stories so wonderful that she believed them herself, fasci-nated me. ![]() I early found the world of books much more satisfactory than the unstable so-called real world. We moved every year or two-California, Japan, upstate New York, New England. "I was an only child and my father was in the Navy. She is also the author of Beauty, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Robin McKinley won the 1985 Newbery Medal for her book The Hero and the Crown, and a 1983 Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, both set in mythical Damar. ![]()
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