From: Peggy Ransom <pransom>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:38:43 -0400

As a child in the 50s, I haunted the Baxter Memorial Library in Gorham, Maine. The Lang "color" fairy tale books were early favorites. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series and Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series provided positive feminine role models that I didn't see in "Dick and Jane" readers or the girl books recommended by my teachers. They were very influential and are still my best loved books. But the one life changing book that I found in those long ago days was Peggy Drives the Bookmobile. (Anyone else know this book?) I haven't a clue who wrote it, haven't seen it for decades and would probably condemn it as dreck today. It was still a critical influence on my future career. Some of my happiest library memories involve service to children who wouldn't have had books without the bookmobile.


Peggy Ransom, Branch Librarian Queen Annes County Free Library - Kent Island 200 Library Circle Stevensville, MD 21666 410-643-8161 410-643-7098 (Fax)
Received on Wed 24 May 2006 01:38:43 PM CDT