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From: Jane Connor <janec>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:22:35 -0400
I have held off on participation in this discussion that is making me nostalgic, but this morning it popped into my mind how much I loved The Jennifer Gift and other books in the series by Eunice Young Smith.
(They still sit on a bookshelf) I also loved the Little House Books, but On the Banks of Plum Creek was my favorite by far. I think the stories of a family moving west stayed with me because as an adult, I have moved back and forth across the US several times.
As a child a neighbor gave me The Secret Garden, which I promptly lost on my way home from school. For some reason I couldn't remember the title, and it was only as a new children's librarian, in the early 70's that I saw a copy of the same edition and read the book, which I loved--but I regret that I didn't read it as a child. For the first ten years of my life we lived a block from the library, which I visited several times a week, but when we moved, it was to a rural area with a very poor library, and I quickly switched to reading my mother's book club books and never looked back.
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:22:35 -0400
I have held off on participation in this discussion that is making me nostalgic, but this morning it popped into my mind how much I loved The Jennifer Gift and other books in the series by Eunice Young Smith.
(They still sit on a bookshelf) I also loved the Little House Books, but On the Banks of Plum Creek was my favorite by far. I think the stories of a family moving west stayed with me because as an adult, I have moved back and forth across the US several times.
As a child a neighbor gave me The Secret Garden, which I promptly lost on my way home from school. For some reason I couldn't remember the title, and it was only as a new children's librarian, in the early 70's that I saw a copy of the same edition and read the book, which I loved--but I regret that I didn't read it as a child. For the first ten years of my life we lived a block from the library, which I visited several times a week, but when we moved, it was to a rural area with a very poor library, and I quickly switched to reading my mother's book club books and never looked back.
-- Jane G. Connor Library Development Consultant Youth Services and Palmetto Book Alliance Coordinator South Carolina State Library 1430 Senate Street P.O. Box 11469 Columbia, SC 29211 Tel: 803-734-8658 Fax: 803-734-8676 e-mail: janec at leo.scsl.state.sc.usReceived on Fri 26 May 2006 09:22:35 AM CDT
