"I didn't have a single book when we arrived," she said.
Dahl leads the top 10 most-read children's authors, along with other teacher-friendly writers such Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson, but doesn't have a single book in the top 10 best-loved books.
"We're really happy, but two years after we opened we still don't have enough benches for the students and the library doesn't have a single book," he says.
In one tradition, which is likely to be reliable, Philolaus is reported to have published a single book, which came to bear the traditional title for all Presocratic philosophical treatises, On Nature, although it is doubtful that this title goes back to Philolaus himself.
In the middle of the bookcase behind his desk, above his empty chair, just where Kim's head would have rested, a single book looms out, cover first.
It would be interesting to know how many of those who tried to block him in the name of rigorous scholarship had read a single book of his, or even a couple of articles.
But while such an endeavor might hold value in Argentina, he said, he was aware that other societies saw things in a different light, referring to a study he read about teenagers in another country who said they were proud of not having read a single book.
It is sufficient for an author to have written a single book that appeared on the NYTBL for a single week to be labeled a 'bestselling author', a label that sticks for life.
He is said to have written a single book (papyrus roll), and deposited it in the great temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
