The Books

The Carrot Seed

by Ruth Krauss
Illustrated by Crockett Johnson

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In which the establishment is represented by an entire family of naysayers, leaning diagonally onto the page with their respective discouragements. Still: “Every day the little boy pulled up the weeds around the seed and sprinkled the ground with water.” Originally published in 1945, this book remains a manual for original thinkers. 

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