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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.

Patricia MacLachlan

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Patricia MacLachlan
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: March 3
Novelist
Writer
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Patricia McLachlan
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Essence
Walking
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Lester
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