I have two reasons to love librarians:
FIRST--this week one of them gave me a free copy of a Murder Mystery Dinner script (which run $25-$65 online) for our upcoming Prom.
SECOND--we started a new read-aloud at home which a librarian gave to me in 4th grade: "From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Franweiler." Everyone here is thrilled with this story of a sister and brother who run away to the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York City and try to solve the mystery of the Michaelangelo statue. This book won a Newbery Medal in 1968, and my librarian in grade school encouraged me to read all the Newbery books on her shelves. Which I did. I was always an obedient girl, you see! Except when I was caught reading after bedtime with my nigh-light on. But those books have stuck with me all these years, and I've tried to squeeze most of them into my children's lives. Just now, I did a quick check of the Newbery list (since 1922) and it revealed that I have read 25 medal winners and 25 honor books, plus I own 24 more that we haven't gotten to yet. Great literature and libraries are a treasure. Thank goodness Ben Franklin invented libraries!
Addendum: The prologue mentions that Mrs. Elaine L. Konigsburg received her Newbery Medal at the Muehlebach Hotel right here in Kansas City!
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