Tag: librarians
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July 4, 2023
Last week, in a signing line at the American Library Association conference: Librarian: my daughter loves The Beatryce Prophecy. Me: Oh, thank her for me. How old is she? Librarian: She’s ten. She particularly likes the goat. Me: Answelica. Librarian: Yes, Answelica. My daughter wants you to know that when she goes to sleep at…
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October 12, 2022
A few weekends ago, I was sitting around with a group of friends and we got to talking about books we had loved when were kids. Lots of different titles were discussed: Harriet the Spy, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, Winnie-the-Pooh, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Henry Huggins, Fantastic Mr. Fox, James and…
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September 16, 2020
You know what I miss? I miss putting a book into someone’s hands. It’s such a simple gesture, and it can have such profound consequences. I think of all the librarians and teachers who put the right book in my hands at the right time. I’m going to be putting copies of Louisiana’s Way Home…
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January 16, 2020
This is a shout-out to teachers and librarians, parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, big brothers and older sisters, neighbors and friends—to all you people who take the time to read aloud to someone. Again and again, as people come through the line to get their books signed, they tell me how someone read a…
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June 20, 2019
I’m heading out to D.C. for the American Library Associations annual conference. And when I get home, I am going to sit on the front porch and read and read and read. Oh, lucky me. I never want to lose sight of what a privilege it is to have access to books. Thank you, librarians.…
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March 5, 2019
When I was eight years old, the librarian at Cooper Memorial Public Library waived the four-book-maximum-check-out rule for me. She said that I could check out as many books as I wanted at one time because I was a “True Reader.” What a gift she gave me! She saw me for who I was. And…