12:00 in the kids' room
- Bathroom key
- Offer to help new patrons...turned down
- Bathroom key back [AND he remembers to say "You're welcome" after my thanks as he scampers off: success!!]
- New people ask for "Little Miss" books by Hargreaves [guess it was good we bought the whole damn series last year...]
- Junie B Jones books [over here...]
- Wonderful Son brings in my lunch and the rest of the Wii parts we need for today's game program for teens
- Summer Reading prizes x2
- Summer Reading signup x7 (?)
- Comic adventures of Boots [which is actually NOT about boots, but a cat]
In your library, kid books about anything other than a cat would probably be welcome! :P
ReplyDeleteThe situation has improved. My new annoyance--not on the kids' librarian at all--is the number of crap-fantasy books in the YA section. What happened to the good old-fashioned realistic fiction/problem novel??
ReplyDeleteNorma Klein, how we miss you! I agree completely. Everything's pink and/or sparkly, supernatural, and romantic. No wonder I skipped all of (that sort of) YA as a teen!
ReplyDeleteI gulped down giant numbers of YA novels, but 'in my day' they were earnest chunks of reality, not escapism pure and simple, with the added bonus of meanness, codependency and/or bullshit.
ReplyDeleteNorma Klein, Judy Blume, Andre Norton, Robert Cormier... or motherfuckin vampires, angels, or other sparkly beings.
Bram Stoker must be twirling.
(Ironically, I'm reading a "fantasy" YA novel right now. No vampires, angels or anything sparkly--the characters are miles underground.)