From: Julie Ranelli <jranelli>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:56:06 -0400

What a great discussion! Is anyone printing these up in book form? Creating a qualitative study? ;)

I can honestly say I would not be sitting at my desk in a children's room of a library without A WRINKLE IN TIME (like Deb and Maia said) and so many other L'Engle books, along with Anne Shirley and Laura Ingalls Wilder and Nancy Drew, all of whom were my dear friends by 5th grade.

When my husband and I went to Prince Edward Island for the L.M. Montgomery festival 2 summers ago, he finally asked me, "Do these people know that Anne and Diana and Gilbert aren't real?" I just looked at him--"What do you mean, they aren't real?"

Thanks for a good topic! Julie

Julie Ranelli Children's/Young Adult Librarian Queen Anne's County Free Library Kent Island Branch Stevensville, MD jranelli at quan.lib.md.us
Received on Wed 24 May 2006 03:56:06 PM CDT