--- title: "2 Raven Black Quotes" description: "Raven Black is a 2006 novel by Ann Cleeves that won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. Raven Black is the first in the..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3a/raven-black-97928_blessings_be-blessed-and-be-a-blessing-1699227_1699227.jpg" --- # Raven Black **2** quotes in **6** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Raven Black is a 2006 novel by Ann Cleeves that won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. Raven Black is the first in the "Shetland" mysteries, a series of eight novels by Cleeves, composed of two quartets, all set in Shetland. ## Quotes by Raven Black > [“Be Blessed and Be a Blessing!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raven-black/be-blessed-and-be-a-blessing/) [Raven Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raven-black/) [Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blessed/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3a/raven-black-97928_blessings_be-blessed-and-be-a-blessing-1699227_1699227.jpg) > [“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raven-black/the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-kids-is-to-encourage-reading-for/) [Raven Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raven-black/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ce/raven-black-97928_books_the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-kids_1795667.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raven-black/#itemlist", "name": "Raven Black Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Be Blessed and Be a Blessing!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Raven Black" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raven-black/be-blessed-and-be-a-blessing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3a/raven-black-97928_blessings_be-blessed-and-be-a-blessing-1699227_1699227.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3a/raven-black-97928_blessings_be-blessed-and-be-a-blessing-1699227_1699227.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3a/raven-black-97928_blessings_be-blessed-and-be-a-blessing-1699227_1699227.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Be Blessed and Be a Blessing!” — Raven Black", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier and deeper and hones grammar, spelling, writing, comprehension, knowledge and imagination ...be it comic books or classics, fiction or non, Lord of the Rings or Lord of the Flies, let them read what they truly like...:)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Raven Black" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raven-black/the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-kids-is-to-encourage-reading-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ce/raven-black-97928_books_the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-kids_1795667.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ce/raven-black-97928_books_the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-kids_1795667.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ce/raven-black-97928_books_the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-kids_1795667.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school…” — Raven Black", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raven-black/#person", "name": "Raven Black", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raven-black/", "description": "Raven Black is a 2006 novel by Ann Cleeves that won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. 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