SANTA CLARA COUNTY LIBRARY
SANTA CLARA COUNTY LIBRARY
Just wanted to say THANK YOU! to the SANTA CLARA COUNTY LIBRARY for including DEAR BABY: LETTERS FROM YOUR BIG BROTHER on their list of NEW BABY IN THE HOUSE books.
Here's the banner from their website. If you are looking for books in this category, here's the link. http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/kids/lists/new_baby/index.html
The SANTA CLARA COUNTY LIBRARY has a terrific website with a number of booklists for kids. Here's a link to that page. http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/kids/lists/
I wish there had been something like this when I was a kid. Back in those days, I looked forward to Saturdays when my mom would take me to the Public Library at the west end of Main Street in Littleton, Colorado. The children's dep
artment was in the basement. Here's what the building looked like from the front, (minus the streetcar. The surroundings had changed a lot by the time I was a patron of this library.)
This was a Carnegie Library and so, when I read BETSY AND TACY GO DOWNTOWN for the first time, I identified with Betsy, the main character, who was allowed to go to the Carnegie Library by herself on Saturday mornings and spend time reading the classics so she could learn how to become a writer. That's exactly what I wanted to do.
In the children's library in the book, there was a print of the Greek island of Delos hanging on the wall. The children's room in my Colorado library also had a print on the wall. In my memory, it's a print of a Greek island. In truth, I'm not sure what was in the picture, but I do remember noticing it and thinking that it must be like the picture Betsy was looking at in her library while she read a collection of Greek myths. If that picture could inspire her, then the picture in my library would inspire me. Maybe I, too, could read the classics and learn how to become a writer.
Today, I visit public libraries everywhere I go. I loved visiting the library in Inlet, NY last month. I have a photo of it somewhere, which I will find and post.
And, here's the library in Shepherdstown, West Virginia which I visit each July when my husband and I attend the CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL.
It's the little white building in the center of the photograph with a tree covering part of the facade.
It was a librarian there who first introduced me to ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS.
I'm sure I never thanked her enough. If I could go back in time, I would find her and tell her how important she was in my life!
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