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From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:55:08 -0700
I didn't remember the color of them, but I know right where they were on my library's shelves, and I read every single one. I know we consider them terrible resources today for many reasons, but they led me to a life-long love of reading history and biography (and historical fiction). Many of today's biographies for children, while factually and politically correct, are dull reading. We need to challenge authors and publishers to entrance non-fiction readers in the way that fiction can entrance.
Nancy Silverrod, Librarian
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-557-4417
nsilverrod at sfpl.org
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
Received on Tue 30 May 2006 01:55:08 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:55:08 -0700
I didn't remember the color of them, but I know right where they were on my library's shelves, and I read every single one. I know we consider them terrible resources today for many reasons, but they led me to a life-long love of reading history and biography (and historical fiction). Many of today's biographies for children, while factually and politically correct, are dull reading. We need to challenge authors and publishers to entrance non-fiction readers in the way that fiction can entrance.
Nancy Silverrod, Librarian
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-557-4417
nsilverrod at sfpl.org
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
Received on Tue 30 May 2006 01:55:08 PM CDT
