Momo would have been delighted, except that most of the newcomers had no idea how to play. All they did was sit around looking bored and sullen and watching Momo and her friends. Sometimes they deliberately broke up the other children's games and spoiled everything. Squabbles and scuffles were frequent, though these never lasted long because Momo's presence had its usual effect on the newcomers, too, so they soon started having bright ideas themselves and joining in with a will. The trouble was, new children turned up nearly every day, some of them from distant parts of the city, and one spoilsport was enough to ruin the game for everyone else. But there was another thing that Momo couldn't quite understand - a thing that hadn't happened until very recently. More and more often these days, children turned up with all kind of toys you couldn't really play with: remote-controlled tanks that trundled to and fro but did little else, or space rockets that whizzed around on strings but got nowhere, or model robots that waddled along with eyes flashing and heads swiveling but that was all. They were highly expensive toys such as Momo's friends had never owned, still less than Momo herself. Most noticeable of all, they were so complete, down to the tiniest detail, that they left nothing at all to the imagination. Their owners would spend hours watching them, mesmerized but bored, as they trundled, whizzed, and waddled along. Finally, when that palled, they would go back to the familiar old games in which a couple of cardboard boxes, a torn tablecloth, a molehill or a handful of pebbles were quite sufficient to conjure up a whole world of make believe.
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MICHAEL MORPURGO One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi... MICHAEL MORPURGO Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. MICHAEL MORPURGO The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t... MICHAEL MORPURGO Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers. MICHAEL MORPURGO It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still... MICHAEL MORPURGO Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi... MICHAEL MORPURGO Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo... MICHAEL MORPURGO Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through ... 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MICHAEL SHEEN Once something is a passion, the motivation is there. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l... MICHAEL FASSBENDER No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. MICHAEL FRANTI To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest... MICHAEL JORDAN Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h... MICHAEL LEUNIG Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ... MICHAEL NOVAK I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the... GEORGE MICHAEL Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ... MICHAEL ANTI One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ... MICHAEL FROME A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of. MICHAEL BOLTON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ... MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor... MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ... MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River... MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow... MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it... MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat... MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf... MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo... MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth... MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue. MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be... MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha... MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut... MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a... MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ... MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon. MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th... MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split... MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q... MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others. MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea... MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili... MICHAEL JORDAN