I am entirely predictable.

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Of course it would be the story about a girl growing up in a magical library that would set me to crying. Of course it would.

I just finished reading a collection of short stories, Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages. (Funnily enough, my decision to read this book had nothing to do with the fact that Neil Gaiman wrote an introduction for it; I

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[cschells]

We just brought home a picture book called "The Library Dragon" from the library today--from the bits I overheard while driving, apparently the dragon torches the books she doesn't like and frightens all the kids away. I think there's a happy ending, but just that part had me feeling really melancholic. (Speaking of magical(-ish) libraries...)

[tempestsarekind]

Oh, dear! I bet that book would make me cry too! Though perhaps for different reasons. :)

In Catherynne M. Valente's online novel, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, there's a creature called a Wyverary--his mother was a wyvern and his father was a library! So he knows everything about anything in the library between A and L. A slightly different kind of library dragon...

http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/fairyland/

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Glad to have been of service. :) Wasn't it lovely? It felt like a secret was being revealed--I always *knew* libraries were magic!