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IriDas
Little Black Crow | Chris Raschka
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Back to the library because I forgot to pick up a hold yesterday. More reading and more check outs ensued.

#libraries
#childrensliterature

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IriDas
Palace of Books | Patricia Polacco
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My son picked this one out, but it‘s a bit long for him. We‘ll be reading it over two nights. A bittersweet beginning to this book. Deals a little with death of a loved one. Mostly about transitions in life. Something I‘m not sure my son can remember since we‘ve finally stayed in the same place for two years. (He has trouble with long term memory.) Would be a good book to read if a child is moving to a new place.
#childrensliterature
#storygraph

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Kshakal
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Indeed!! 🤓🤓🤓

TheBookHippie Cute. 5d
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IriDas
One Rubber Duckie | Ted Hughes, Sesame Street, John E Barrett
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The craft for the summer reading program was decorating a rubber duckie. I think Ernie would have loved it. :)
#libraries
#Crafts

TheBookHippie ♥️🐤🐥🐣♥️ 5d
dabbe 🤩😍🤩 4d
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IriDas
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TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 5d
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Teresereading
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Hanging out in US bookstores
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

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BarbaraJean
The Library at Night | Alberto Manguel
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“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.”

Bookwomble I need to read this book. Ironically, it sits unread on one of my shelves! 😄 1w
BarbaraJean @Bookwomble 😂 It has unlimited patience! It will wait for you! 1w
charl08 Love this book. Due a reread. 1w
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IriDas
The Loud Librarian | Jenna Beatrice
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Such a cute book. My son picked this out to have me read to him today. Sweet Penelope wants so much to be a librarian. She just has one little BIG problem. A good book to show children (and adults, hopefully) that sometimes we need to get creative to make our dreams and talents match.

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#childrensbooks
#childrenliterature
#libraries

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BarbaraJean
The Library at Night | Alberto Manguel
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“…multinational companies have ensured that, on the one hand, users will not protest against being turned into consumers, since they are supposedly "in control" of cyberspace; and that, on the other hand, they will be prevented from learning anything profound, whether about themselves, their immediate surroundings or the rest of the world. Commenting in 2004 on the usefulness of the Web as a creative tool, the celebrated American comic-strip ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d)…artist Will Eisner explained that, when he first discovered this electronic medium, he believed it to be an almost magical source of new artistic inventions, but that of late it had become “merely a supermarket to which consumers come to look for the cheapest possible product.”

This sleight of hand is achieved, every time a reader locks onto the Web, by stressing velocity over reflection and brevity over complexity, preferring ⤵️
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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …snippets of news and bytes of facts over lengthy discussions and elaborate dossiers, and by diluting informed opinion with reams of inane babble, ineffectual advice, inaccurate facts and trivial information, made attractive with brand names and manipulated statistics.” 2w
BarbaraJean Ooof. This was published in 2006, and I think it‘s MORE accurate today than it was then. 🙁 2w
lil1inblue 😨 😨 😨 1w
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BarbaraJean
The Library at Night | Alberto Manguel
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“There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that tradition has declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we have made ours through instinct, emotion and understanding: suffered through it, rejoiced in it, translated it into our experience and… essentially become its first discoverers…”

CSeydel Oh that‘s really interesting 2w
BarbaraJean @CSeydel Right?! The difference between a book that‘s a classic—and that same book, which we‘ve discovered for ourselves, almost creating it for the first time through our own experience of it. 🤯 2w
lil1inblue I'm sold. Stacked. 1w
BarbaraJean @lil1inblue It‘s so good! I love his insights into reading and collecting books! 1w
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