Finished up our inventory today (98.47% of our books accounted for). I have to admit it felt very strange being in the library by myself!
Thank you Elizabeth, Leslie, Julia, Melissa, Veronica, June, Kathy, Karl, Rachel, and Mary for all of your help – I couldn’t have done it with you! You helped us put more than 3000 books back on the shelves each month! This video is for you!
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As the school year approaches I thought I’d share a couple of the titles that are in the stack of books on my dresser – my go-to pile of reading material that is constantly changing.
Right now I have Lights on the Nile by Donna Jo Napoli, Lower the Trap by Jessica Scott Kerrin, Kingdom Keepers II by Ridley Pearson, The Rights of the Reader by Pennac, A Repair Kit for Grading by Ken O’Connor, The Family Kitchen Garden by Liebreich, Wagner and Wendland and What Learning Leaves by Taylor Mali.
Through my reading I am planning a winter garden, I was captivated by Kepi, a young Egyptian girl in 2530, struggling to save her family and Daniel Pennac reminded my why reading with our children at Bedtime is so precious: “A sudden truce after the battle of the day, a reunion lifted out of the ordinary…Without realizing it, we were discovering one of the crucial functions of storytelling and, more broadly speaking, of art in general, which is to offer a respite from human struggle.”