Begin the year immersed in the wonder of impossibility.
"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Celebrate a birthday this month as you begin your year in books.
on the third J R R Tolkien
on the fourth Jacob Grimm
on the fifth Lynne Cherry
on the twelfth Jack London
on the eighteenth A A Milne
on the thirty-first Rosemary Wells
on the twenty-seventh Lewis Carroll
and on the twenty-eighth Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was first published
on the twenty-ninth Rosemary Wells
on the thirtieth Lloyd Alexander