Comments | sarren: I'm glad I asked.

sarren

I'm glad I asked.

Sep 12, 2008 16:14

I took Bunny to get her first library card the other day. She was very excited. The children’s section is quite large, and includes one shelf labelled something like Fun for Boys, with books with blue stickers, and another shelf labelled Fun for Girls, with pink stickers. I asked quite neutrally why they had that, and got some stock standard ( Read more... )

gender, bunny

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baby_elvis September 12 2008, 10:00:36 UTC

Well, given that justification, I can sort of accept it, but i'dlike to see what they include. There is reaearch to suggest that this is one way of getting reluctant readers to read-it provides a bit of guidance to cut through the overwhelming of books.

sarren September 17 2008, 12:18:06 UTC

The huge selection of books certainly was overwhelming Bunny. I watched her wandering around and getting discouraged while I was waiting for the cards to be sorted out. I had to show her that there were books that were for her reading age amongst all the other ones "with too much writing".

baby_elvis September 17 2008, 12:25:40 UTC

I wanted to borrow some for Bunny's age group the other day and was just as overwhelmed by the Junior Fiction section - it covers so many reading ages and development levels. We just studied this, I shall put some hints on y lj!

zebra363 September 12 2008, 11:08:15 UTC

Very interesting - I'm also glad you asked. Still not sure it's a good thing, though. I suppose "Fun Books" wouldn't have the same effect?

fred_mouse September 17 2008, 07:55:03 UTC

*first library card*?! (*boggles*)

All of my kids have had library cards since before they could walk. Unfortunately, now they want to use them to borrow their own books, and I may have to resort to signing A up for a membership so that I can get more than my fair share of books....

sarren September 17 2008, 09:42:41 UTC

*defensively* Bunny has a million books. Dragonfly buys them secondhand by the box!

sarren September 17 2008, 09:43:27 UTC

by the box!

That may be a slight exaggeration.

baby_elvis September 17 2008, 12:27:10 UTC

emma has purchased pearl over 200 books before she was born. some may say that was excessive - i prefer to think of it as a sign of mental illness.

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joandarck September 20 2008, 06:45:09 UTC

Ugh, I discovered a "books for girls" section in Borders last year, I was horrified.