From: MNevett at aol.com <MNevett>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:43:49 EDT

Life changing books- 1) Harriet the Spy- first book I ever read featuring a main character who was extremely flawed- PLUS, I was the first one to check it out of my branch of Brooklyn Public- I should have known I was a future librarian to get such a thrill out of that! 2) The Princess and the Goblin- the librarian who recommended this to me had a nametag- his name was Mr. MacDonald. I was awed and honored that he
"chose" me to read his book- and was too modest to claim it as his. It wasn't until I was enrolled in library school, taking History of Children's lit, that I found out the truth. Luckily I wasn' t devastated, and was able to appreciate how special I had felt back then! He was inadvertently a role model for me as a children's librarian. 3)Pentimento by Lillian Hellman- I was actually an adult when I realized authors could lie, and even some non-fiction, particularly autobiography, could be fiction! the list could go on and on and on.... Micki
 
  Micki S. Nevett Westmere Elementary School Guilderland Central School District Albany, NY 12203 nevettm at guilderlandschools.org mnevett at aol.com
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