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New Wisdom Tree Collective Offering Invites Adults to Engage with Children's Books children's books May 22, 2024

When browsing bookshelves, do you ever catch sight of a beloved children’s book and feel that lift of the heart, along with a deep surge of memory? Me too. All the time. Those children’s books—the pictures, the cadences, the feel of them in my hands—are portals to something precious and powerful.

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