Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

- Kathi Appelt

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

- Kathi Appelt

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hide…

- Kathi Appelt

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude an…

- Kathi Appelt

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

- Kathi Appelt

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

- Kathi Appelt

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost…

- Kathi Appelt

It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and sho…

- Kathi Appelt

Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while you play Just as ol' r…

- Kathi Appelt