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From: Caroline Kienzle <CKienzle>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:16:56 -0500
Now I must respond.
First and most influential library: Multnomah Public Library, Portland Oregon, the 1950s. My mother took me into the closed stacks to checkout the Jelna series. Not sure I have the spelling right, frontier Canadian family on the order of the Ewings of Dallas fame.
The librarian would be Dawn Nye, Peace Dale Public Library, Peace Dale, RI. Mrs. Nye, and all the other librarians, took me in as their library page and accepted me as one of them. I got to read all the books before they went out, drank coffee and smoked cigarettes in the back room with them. Along the way I learned it was desirable to be smart and independent. No surprise, in my late 30s I went to library school.
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Life-changing librarians (Kathy Johnson)
2. Life-changing books (maggie_bo at comcast.net)
3. Re: Life-changing books (Maia Cheli-Colando)
4. Re: Life-changing books (Ryan, Pat)
5. life-changing books (Carolyn Gabb)
6. Re: Life-changing (Lisa Von Drasek)
7. Rereading (Norma Jean)
8. Re: Life-changing books (Kbshepler at aol.com)
9. Re: Little House Books (Nancy Daniels)
10. Re: Life-changing librarians (Kbshepler at aol.com)
11. What books changed your life? (Jill Davis)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:08:47 -0400 From: Kathy Johnson <kmquimby at sover.net> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing librarians To: "Linda Leopold Strauss" <strauss at one.net>, "ccbc"
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My life-changing librarian was Sue O'Brien. Back in the days before confidentiality, in our small town library the circulation cards from the books, dated, went into a pocket with your name on it. The pockets stood in upright ranks in a deep drawer that was divided into two sections, one for children and one for adults. One day, when I was in sixth grade, Mrs. O'Brien announced, with a certain sense of occasion, "I think you belong in the adult section now." She lifted my pocket and transferred it over.
I've always thought it was significant that the first time I felt grown up happened in a library.
Kathy Quimby
At 05:15 PM 5/24/2006, Linda Leopold Strauss wrote:
>I have loved this topic. I, too, had a life-changing librarian--in
>Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, some sixty years ago. I learned to read
>very early, and when my parents took me to get a library card, the
>librarian said I couldn't get a card till I went to school. When my
>parents explained that I could read, she agreed to test me: my father
>sat me up on the high circular check-out desk (which was taller than I
>was) and I managed to read a sheet of paper on which were written the
>library rules. Victory! I don't remember if there was an actual
>written rule on that sheet of paper about not getting a card till one
>was in school, but if there was, that wonderful librarian broke it.
>She also broke other rules for me: first graders could take out one
>book at a time; second graders, two; etc. I always got to take out as
>many books as I wanted, and I remember going home with piles of the
>"colored" fairytale books, Red, Blue, Green, Silver. I can still
>remember exactly where they were on the library shelves. What bliss!
>
>
>
>Thank you, librarians everywhere!
>
>
>
>Linda Strauss
>
>
>
>
>
>Linda Leopold Strauss
>
>
>
>A Fairy Called Hilary (Holiday House, 1999)
>
>Really, Truly, Everything's Fine (Marshall Cavendish, 2004)
>
>
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All the posts about The Egypt Game remind me of another book by that author, The Velvet Room, that I read many times as a child. I did not discover she'd written other books until I was an adult--I read and enjoyed them all--but The Velvet Room is still far and away my favorite. Nostalgia? Maybe, but it's just delightful. Someone also mentioned The Secret Language--another of my oft-read favorites.
On a side note--I have a daughter who is an unbelievably voracious reader, even more so than I was, but she rarely rereads anything. I wonder if this is simply because it's much easier for her to get hold of new books than it was for me. I still think there's something special about rereading a book multiple times--it really becomes "yours" then, almost part of your psyche. I wonder if re-reading is less common now than it used to be.
Maggie Bokelman SLIS University of Wisconsin graduate
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:45:50 -0700 From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia at littlefolktales.org> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing books To: CCBC Net <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <4474FE3E.1010602 at littlefolktales.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Kathleen asked for feedback from children. I'm uncertain how much life-change assessment a seven-year old can offer (!), but my daughter replied to my inquiry with two titles: A Life Like Mine (DK/Unicef) and
Acting for Nature, What Young People Around the World Have Done to Protect the Environment by Sneed Collard III. Without prodding, she expounded on the lessons of class structure, how and what people live on, and where, etc. that she gained from A Like Like Mine. (She also used this opportunity to solicit that we find a copy of A Faith Like Mine! <g>)
I asked her if there was a fiction title that she felt had changed her.
She has read Island of the Aunts and Journey to the River Sea, Jane Eyre, the first three Oz books, two Anne of Green Gables books, Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes, etc., and is reading Little Women currently... but though she loves these books and has read them again and again, no, she answered, it was the two titles above that she felt had altered her understanding of life, not the novels.
So much for girls not being non-fiction readers, I guess. :)
Maia
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My daughter is now 27, but the first two books I remember her reading over and over were Little Bear by Minarik and the Martin Luther King, Jr. children's biography, I think by Rae Bains. She was in the first grade at the time, I think.
My son absolute completely refused to read anything I recommended; but later when his best friend gave him a list which contained many of the titles I had first given him he just devoured them and he's been reading ever since. Unfortunately I can't remember any of the titles, just that when the list came from his friend it was all good.
And I just read The Island of the Aunts for the first time; what a wonderful book!
Patricia Ryan, Children's Librarian Union City Library 510-745-1464 ext. 19
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Message: 5 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:47:19 -0400 From: "Carolyn Gabb" <cgabb at mindspring.com> Subject: [CCBC-Net] life-changing books To: "CCBC" <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <001d01c67f9d$2bbf2ce0$ef607d18 at carolynz2qtwlm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
BlankAs for life-changing books, I can without question say that Julius Lester's Book, TO BE A SLAVE, opened up an entirely new body of information for me about the realities of the diaspora and the truths about slavery in ways that no book ever has. I read this book in graduate school (UGA/Drl. Tazel) and realized how invisible and inaccurate the histories of my K-12 experience were.
This book, in part with many other experiences in teaching children's literature and working with pre-service teachers, has led me to focus on diversity in children's lit. On my website (http://www.drgabb.com) I have devoted an entire section to multicultural books and issues.
Carolyn G.
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Message: 6 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:28:16 -0400 From: "Lisa Von Drasek" <lisav at bnkst.edu> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu>, <strauss at one.net>,
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That is a interesting question. Why do we reread?
My guess is for comfort. Just look at those kids reading Harry Potter and then starting all over again.
There were certainly less books available to me at the elementary age. I know that there was a school library but I don't remember going there very much and also the lack of time when there. You were supposed to choose a book now, not read one. The public library was a car ride away and usually reserved for a rainy Sunday afternoon. My mom would drop us, me and my three brothers and we would be on our own for hours.
I was sent to 8 weeks of summer camp at the age of 13 with only 3 books with me. No other readers in the bunk. Oh the horror. I did an enormous amount of reading from my synagogue library. I remember I am Rosemarie, The Endless Steppe and All of a Kind Family.
These posts also reminded me of piano lessons. My twin brother and I took piano lessons in Mrs. Kestenbaum's converted garage. There was an upright piano, a sort of comfortable couch and shelves and shelves of books. We each had a half hour lesson. I always went first. I was terrible. Then I was allowed to read anything I wanted from the shelves. I couldn't take the book home with me but my favorite part of piano lessons was D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths.
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Message: 7 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:49:18 -0400 From: Norma Jean <nsawicki at nyc.rr.com> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Rereading To: <CCBC-Net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <C09A936E.7CDC%nsawicki at nyc.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Why do we reread...
>From the chair in which I sit, it depends on the individual...I reread
>for
different reasons......different layers can emerge, to experience the pleasure, curiosity, etc., again, a book can resonate differently when read at a different time, to analyze a book's structure...no doubt other reasons that do not immediately come to mind. Norma Jean
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Message: 8 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:39 EDT From: Kbshepler at aol.com Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing books To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <49e.815ff4.31a6793f at aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
What fun! Like many, I have been enjoying this thread...
I jumped for joy when I discovered the reprinting of THE GOLDEN BOOK OF
FAIRY TALES illustrated by Adrienne Segur. How many hours I spent lost in those lush pictures (each alternating full page illustration either full color or sepia tone.)
Unfortunately the book of poetry I also found late in life that meant so
much to me as a child is packed away (how did that happen?) so I cannot quote the title and illustrator. How many times I read " ... up the airy mountain and down the rushy glen/ we daren't go a-hunting for fear of little men" - I am transported just typing the words.
The first books I truly remember being read to me were the RAGGEDY ANN and RAGGEDY ANDY series. I can understand how a very young child relates to books when I look at any of those titles. I must have undergone a cellular change and left this world in order to physically enter those stories. When I look at the stylized Gruelle flowers with their splotches of color, I can remember wandering among them and having them seem just about my height! Who need hallucinogens?
Much more pedestrian was a teen (tween?) obsession with anything
'nurse'. I knew exactly what I was going to do when I grew up: I would go to Stanford and enroll in a 5 year program to obtain a Masters in Nursing. So I read every title I could get my hands on of Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. (No, smile, I did
not fulfill those particular dreams: I went to Cal and studied art history!)
Such fun remembering.
Kathy
Kathy Shepler, Librarian Aurora School Oakland, CA
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Message: 9 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:12:20 -0500 From: Nancy Daniels <danielsa at uwplatt.edu> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Little House Books Cc: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <44752094.4090803 at uwplatt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
JDUPRAU at aol.com wrote:
>Me, neither. I'm not sure why, but I just found them dull. The pioneer
>book I
>liked was CADDIE WOODLAWN.
>
>Jeannie again
>
>
My favorite, too, especially since she was a Wisconsin farm girl and so was I. Nancy
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Message: 10 Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:02:00 EDT From: Kbshepler at aol.com Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing librarians To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <43b.1c24b9e.31a68638 at aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
In a message dated 5/24/2006 3:09:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kmquimby at sover.net writes:
My life-changing librarian was Sue O'Brien. Now here is another thread I can enjoy (when will I ever get back to work?)
My life-changing librarian was quite famous in her right as an author: Gladys Conklin, children's librarian extraordinaire of the Hayward Public Library in California. A little slip of a woman, she was a powerhouse of energy and enthusiasms. She ran a Saturday morning "Bug Club" of which I was a member. She was the first to show me - by doing it - that girls could love bugs, too. We
read books about bugs, drew in journals about bugs, collected bugs. I try today in my own library work to make that vital connection between the
"outside
world" and books.
I so clearly remember the day in the 50's when I moved "up" from the children's room to the "Star" section. At a certain age, Mrs. Conklin would put a star on your library card and you could then take books out the oh-so-grown-up
"star" section of the library. It was literally one narrow tall bookshelf with
books all marked on the spine with a "star" in addition to the call number. Heaven forbid if you tried to check out a "star" book without the requisite emblem on your library card. The books were definitely NOT your current YA edgy titles, but I remember how they made me branch out into the world. One book whose title I wish I could reconstruct: it was the cause for a life-long interest in sloths. An autobiography of a man in Central or South America whose house edged on the rain forest. He actually had a sloth in his backyard! Heaven.
Kathy
Kathy Shepler, Librarian Aurora School Oakland, CA
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Message: 11 Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 03:07:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jill Davis <jilldaviseditor at yahoo.com> Subject: [CCBC-Net] What books changed your life? To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <20060525100725.72294.qmail at web53707.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
HOP ON POP and LITTLE BEAR made me love books.
PIPPI and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN got me reading on my own.
A paperback biography of HELEN KELLER was my introduction to re-reading and to emotional writing.
(W-A-T-E-R!) And it gave me my first historical heroine.
In fourth grade, my beautiful tall skinny teacher Miss Coughlin read two books aloud (and did the voices, too!)--and those are the two that have stuck with me, and lived comfortably in my brain and body ever since:
A WRINKLE IN TIME and THE PUSHCART WAR.
Of all the books I have read, the PUSHCART WAR has stood up best, remained terribly relevent, and still has the hugest dose of bubbling personality.
The V.C. ANDREWS books and THE REINCARNATION OF AUDREY ROSE shwoed me about the guilty pleasure of reading and were my introduction to the darker side of books.
CATCHER IN THE RYE made me aware of wanting to know more about an author, and how an author's voice could be so strong, completely penetrating, and come across so stunningly in a book. It was also the book that showed me I should re-read to pick up details I had missed.
Sorry to be so long, but it's so much fun...
Jill Davis
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Now I must respond.
First and most influential library: Multnomah Public Library, Portland Oregon, the 1950s. My mother took me into the closed stacks to checkout the Jelna series. Not sure I have the spelling right, frontier Canadian family on the order of the Ewings of Dallas fame.
The librarian would be Dawn Nye, Peace Dale Public Library, Peace Dale, RI. Mrs. Nye, and all the other librarians, took me in as their library page and accepted me as one of them. I got to read all the books before they went out, drank coffee and smoked cigarettes in the back room with them. Along the way I learned it was desirable to be smart and independent. No surprise, in my late 30s I went to library school.
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3. Re: Life-changing books (Maia Cheli-Colando)
4. Re: Life-changing books (Ryan, Pat)
5. life-changing books (Carolyn Gabb)
6. Re: Life-changing (Lisa Von Drasek)
7. Rereading (Norma Jean)
8. Re: Life-changing books (Kbshepler at aol.com)
9. Re: Little House Books (Nancy Daniels)
10. Re: Life-changing librarians (Kbshepler at aol.com)
11. What books changed your life? (Jill Davis)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:08:47 -0400 From: Kathy Johnson <kmquimby at sover.net> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing librarians To: "Linda Leopold Strauss" <strauss at one.net>, "ccbc"
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My life-changing librarian was Sue O'Brien. Back in the days before confidentiality, in our small town library the circulation cards from the books, dated, went into a pocket with your name on it. The pockets stood in upright ranks in a deep drawer that was divided into two sections, one for children and one for adults. One day, when I was in sixth grade, Mrs. O'Brien announced, with a certain sense of occasion, "I think you belong in the adult section now." She lifted my pocket and transferred it over.
I've always thought it was significant that the first time I felt grown up happened in a library.
Kathy Quimby
At 05:15 PM 5/24/2006, Linda Leopold Strauss wrote:
>I have loved this topic. I, too, had a life-changing librarian--in
>Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, some sixty years ago. I learned to read
>very early, and when my parents took me to get a library card, the
>librarian said I couldn't get a card till I went to school. When my
>parents explained that I could read, she agreed to test me: my father
>sat me up on the high circular check-out desk (which was taller than I
>was) and I managed to read a sheet of paper on which were written the
>library rules. Victory! I don't remember if there was an actual
>written rule on that sheet of paper about not getting a card till one
>was in school, but if there was, that wonderful librarian broke it.
>She also broke other rules for me: first graders could take out one
>book at a time; second graders, two; etc. I always got to take out as
>many books as I wanted, and I remember going home with piles of the
>"colored" fairytale books, Red, Blue, Green, Silver. I can still
>remember exactly where they were on the library shelves. What bliss!
>
>
>
>Thank you, librarians everywhere!
>
>
>
>Linda Strauss
>
>
>
>
>
>Linda Leopold Strauss
>
>
>
>A Fairy Called Hilary (Holiday House, 1999)
>
>Really, Truly, Everything's Fine (Marshall Cavendish, 2004)
>
>
>
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All the posts about The Egypt Game remind me of another book by that author, The Velvet Room, that I read many times as a child. I did not discover she'd written other books until I was an adult--I read and enjoyed them all--but The Velvet Room is still far and away my favorite. Nostalgia? Maybe, but it's just delightful. Someone also mentioned The Secret Language--another of my oft-read favorites.
On a side note--I have a daughter who is an unbelievably voracious reader, even more so than I was, but she rarely rereads anything. I wonder if this is simply because it's much easier for her to get hold of new books than it was for me. I still think there's something special about rereading a book multiple times--it really becomes "yours" then, almost part of your psyche. I wonder if re-reading is less common now than it used to be.
Maggie Bokelman SLIS University of Wisconsin graduate
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Kathleen asked for feedback from children. I'm uncertain how much life-change assessment a seven-year old can offer (!), but my daughter replied to my inquiry with two titles: A Life Like Mine (DK/Unicef) and
Acting for Nature, What Young People Around the World Have Done to Protect the Environment by Sneed Collard III. Without prodding, she expounded on the lessons of class structure, how and what people live on, and where, etc. that she gained from A Like Like Mine. (She also used this opportunity to solicit that we find a copy of A Faith Like Mine! <g>)
I asked her if there was a fiction title that she felt had changed her.
She has read Island of the Aunts and Journey to the River Sea, Jane Eyre, the first three Oz books, two Anne of Green Gables books, Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes, etc., and is reading Little Women currently... but though she loves these books and has read them again and again, no, she answered, it was the two titles above that she felt had altered her understanding of life, not the novels.
So much for girls not being non-fiction readers, I guess. :)
Maia
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My daughter is now 27, but the first two books I remember her reading over and over were Little Bear by Minarik and the Martin Luther King, Jr. children's biography, I think by Rae Bains. She was in the first grade at the time, I think.
My son absolute completely refused to read anything I recommended; but later when his best friend gave him a list which contained many of the titles I had first given him he just devoured them and he's been reading ever since. Unfortunately I can't remember any of the titles, just that when the list came from his friend it was all good.
And I just read The Island of the Aunts for the first time; what a wonderful book!
Patricia Ryan, Children's Librarian Union City Library 510-745-1464 ext. 19
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Message: 5 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:47:19 -0400 From: "Carolyn Gabb" <cgabb at mindspring.com> Subject: [CCBC-Net] life-changing books To: "CCBC" <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <001d01c67f9d$2bbf2ce0$ef607d18 at carolynz2qtwlm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
BlankAs for life-changing books, I can without question say that Julius Lester's Book, TO BE A SLAVE, opened up an entirely new body of information for me about the realities of the diaspora and the truths about slavery in ways that no book ever has. I read this book in graduate school (UGA/Drl. Tazel) and realized how invisible and inaccurate the histories of my K-12 experience were.
This book, in part with many other experiences in teaching children's literature and working with pre-service teachers, has led me to focus on diversity in children's lit. On my website (http://www.drgabb.com) I have devoted an entire section to multicultural books and issues.
Carolyn G.
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Message: 6 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:28:16 -0400 From: "Lisa Von Drasek" <lisav at bnkst.edu> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu>, <strauss at one.net>,
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That is a interesting question. Why do we reread?
My guess is for comfort. Just look at those kids reading Harry Potter and then starting all over again.
There were certainly less books available to me at the elementary age. I know that there was a school library but I don't remember going there very much and also the lack of time when there. You were supposed to choose a book now, not read one. The public library was a car ride away and usually reserved for a rainy Sunday afternoon. My mom would drop us, me and my three brothers and we would be on our own for hours.
I was sent to 8 weeks of summer camp at the age of 13 with only 3 books with me. No other readers in the bunk. Oh the horror. I did an enormous amount of reading from my synagogue library. I remember I am Rosemarie, The Endless Steppe and All of a Kind Family.
These posts also reminded me of piano lessons. My twin brother and I took piano lessons in Mrs. Kestenbaum's converted garage. There was an upright piano, a sort of comfortable couch and shelves and shelves of books. We each had a half hour lesson. I always went first. I was terrible. Then I was allowed to read anything I wanted from the shelves. I couldn't take the book home with me but my favorite part of piano lessons was D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths.
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Message: 7 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:49:18 -0400 From: Norma Jean <nsawicki at nyc.rr.com> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Rereading To: <CCBC-Net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <C09A936E.7CDC%nsawicki at nyc.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Why do we reread...
>From the chair in which I sit, it depends on the individual...I reread
>for
different reasons......different layers can emerge, to experience the pleasure, curiosity, etc., again, a book can resonate differently when read at a different time, to analyze a book's structure...no doubt other reasons that do not immediately come to mind. Norma Jean
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Message: 8 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:39 EDT From: Kbshepler at aol.com Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing books To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <49e.815ff4.31a6793f at aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
What fun! Like many, I have been enjoying this thread...
I jumped for joy when I discovered the reprinting of THE GOLDEN BOOK OF
FAIRY TALES illustrated by Adrienne Segur. How many hours I spent lost in those lush pictures (each alternating full page illustration either full color or sepia tone.)
Unfortunately the book of poetry I also found late in life that meant so
much to me as a child is packed away (how did that happen?) so I cannot quote the title and illustrator. How many times I read " ... up the airy mountain and down the rushy glen/ we daren't go a-hunting for fear of little men" - I am transported just typing the words.
The first books I truly remember being read to me were the RAGGEDY ANN and RAGGEDY ANDY series. I can understand how a very young child relates to books when I look at any of those titles. I must have undergone a cellular change and left this world in order to physically enter those stories. When I look at the stylized Gruelle flowers with their splotches of color, I can remember wandering among them and having them seem just about my height! Who need hallucinogens?
Much more pedestrian was a teen (tween?) obsession with anything
'nurse'. I knew exactly what I was going to do when I grew up: I would go to Stanford and enroll in a 5 year program to obtain a Masters in Nursing. So I read every title I could get my hands on of Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. (No, smile, I did
not fulfill those particular dreams: I went to Cal and studied art history!)
Such fun remembering.
Kathy
Kathy Shepler, Librarian Aurora School Oakland, CA
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Message: 9 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:12:20 -0500 From: Nancy Daniels <danielsa at uwplatt.edu> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Little House Books Cc: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <44752094.4090803 at uwplatt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
JDUPRAU at aol.com wrote:
>Me, neither. I'm not sure why, but I just found them dull. The pioneer
>book I
>liked was CADDIE WOODLAWN.
>
>Jeannie again
>
>
My favorite, too, especially since she was a Wisconsin farm girl and so was I. Nancy
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Message: 10 Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:02:00 EDT From: Kbshepler at aol.com Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Life-changing librarians To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <43b.1c24b9e.31a68638 at aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
In a message dated 5/24/2006 3:09:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kmquimby at sover.net writes:
My life-changing librarian was Sue O'Brien. Now here is another thread I can enjoy (when will I ever get back to work?)
My life-changing librarian was quite famous in her right as an author: Gladys Conklin, children's librarian extraordinaire of the Hayward Public Library in California. A little slip of a woman, she was a powerhouse of energy and enthusiasms. She ran a Saturday morning "Bug Club" of which I was a member. She was the first to show me - by doing it - that girls could love bugs, too. We
read books about bugs, drew in journals about bugs, collected bugs. I try today in my own library work to make that vital connection between the
"outside
world" and books.
I so clearly remember the day in the 50's when I moved "up" from the children's room to the "Star" section. At a certain age, Mrs. Conklin would put a star on your library card and you could then take books out the oh-so-grown-up
"star" section of the library. It was literally one narrow tall bookshelf with
books all marked on the spine with a "star" in addition to the call number. Heaven forbid if you tried to check out a "star" book without the requisite emblem on your library card. The books were definitely NOT your current YA edgy titles, but I remember how they made me branch out into the world. One book whose title I wish I could reconstruct: it was the cause for a life-long interest in sloths. An autobiography of a man in Central or South America whose house edged on the rain forest. He actually had a sloth in his backyard! Heaven.
Kathy
Kathy Shepler, Librarian Aurora School Oakland, CA
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Message: 11 Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 03:07:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jill Davis <jilldaviseditor at yahoo.com> Subject: [CCBC-Net] What books changed your life? To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <20060525100725.72294.qmail at web53707.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
HOP ON POP and LITTLE BEAR made me love books.
PIPPI and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN got me reading on my own.
A paperback biography of HELEN KELLER was my introduction to re-reading and to emotional writing.
(W-A-T-E-R!) And it gave me my first historical heroine.
In fourth grade, my beautiful tall skinny teacher Miss Coughlin read two books aloud (and did the voices, too!)--and those are the two that have stuck with me, and lived comfortably in my brain and body ever since:
A WRINKLE IN TIME and THE PUSHCART WAR.
Of all the books I have read, the PUSHCART WAR has stood up best, remained terribly relevent, and still has the hugest dose of bubbling personality.
The V.C. ANDREWS books and THE REINCARNATION OF AUDREY ROSE shwoed me about the guilty pleasure of reading and were my introduction to the darker side of books.
CATCHER IN THE RYE made me aware of wanting to know more about an author, and how an author's voice could be so strong, completely penetrating, and come across so stunningly in a book. It was also the book that showed me I should re-read to pick up details I had missed.
Sorry to be so long, but it's so much fun...
Jill Davis
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