The Word Collector - crossword

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Across
  1. 5. When he saw other children collecting words he released from the top of the hill, he "had no words to describe how ________ that made him."
  2. 6. "He used his words to write ________. He used his ________ to make songs."
  3. 7. "Some of his simplest words were his most ________."
  4. 9. "The Word Collector" was written by Peter H. ________
  5. 10. He began stringing words together. "Words he had not imagined being ________ by ________.
Down
  1. 1. He "filled his ________ with more and more of his favorite words."
  2. 2. The name of the main character.
  3. 3. He also collected long multi-________ words that sounded like little songs.
  4. 4. "As he began to pick them up, he noticed his collections had become ________. Big words next to little words. Sad words next to dreamy words.
  5. 8. After carrying his words in a wagon up a hill one breezy afternoon, "He smiled as he emptied his collection of words into the ________."