From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:40:45 -0700

In remembering my childhood and youth, when I was, as now, a voracious reader, I used a combination of randomly picking things off the shelves and then reading everything by that author if I liked the first book, to relying on my wonderful school librarians who read aloud to us, even when we were sixth graders, and who used to save books for me-some of which weren't even in the collection yet. I think Miss Davis was on the Newbery committee one year; she gave me lots and lots of wonderful books to read that were from her private stash.

 

My 13-year-old stepson, who is not a voracious reader, despite having three parents who are librarians, relies much more on us to recommend things to him, and is much less likely to read all of an author's works
(except the Lemony Snicket series). He has recently gone on to reading adult titles, without having read so many of my favorite children's and YA titles, which makes me sad -- though we're encouraging him to get on the teen advisory committee and start reviewing YA books for the library.

 

 

Nancy Silverrod, Librarian

San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin St.

San Francisco, CA 94102
Received on Thu 07 Oct 2004 03:40:45 PM CDT