From: Beth Wright <bethlibrarian>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:06:56 -0800 (PST)

The only books about manners my patrons requested in 2007 were Munro Leaf's How to Behave and Why and its sequels, which were published in the 1940s and reprinted in 2002, I believe. I hadn't seen these books before I ordered them for a patron, and I appreciated them for their straightforwardness. But, having been printed in the 1940s, they're pieces of actual nostalgia rather than modern books with a nostalgic feel.

As far as fiction goes, Elizabeth Enright's books from the 1950s continue to be popular at my library despite some regrettable gender stereotypes (oh, how those girls LOVE to clean the old house at Gone-Away Lake). I like to recommend Birdsall's The Penderwicks as something with a similar feel but a more modern sensibility, and the patrons I've handed it to have liked it too.

Beth Wright Youth Services Librarian Fletcher Free Library Burlington, Vermont




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