I love my job, reason #22
Seriously, I love being a Children's Librarian. I did a reading a couple weeks back at one of the local elementary schools. I read books to 2nd graders for about a half an hour. I carefully chose my books, trying to get crowd pleasers that would show the kids that, "reading is fun," etc., so I wound up taking: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (my favorite) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steg The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (an oldy, but still a favorite story of mine!) (Also any Librarian might notice that I am also trying to innundate the little monsters with award winners: Where the Wild Things Are, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and The Little House are all Caldecott Medal Winners . Anyway, I was a little intimidated at first--reading to 60+ staring eyes--but once I started reading things went great and the kids seemed interested. Anyway, today I received a stack of Thank-you lett...