As the Children's Librarian I get the opportunity to help library users find great books all the time, but I do not always get the opportunity to hear how they liked the book. This is one of those great stories!
I helped a mother find some stories to read to her daughter’s
first grade class. I gave her five or
six picture books because she said that she could dress up as one of the
characters from the story and I wanted to give her several options. The week after she read to her daughter’s
classroom, she came back in and said that she had used Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook
by Michael Garland for her “guest reader spot” and her son, who is four,
even helped out by playing one of the characters in the book.
She went on to say that the reading went great and the children in her
daughter’s class loved the book, but even better than that, she had been able
to use one of the other books that I had given her—Chrysanthemum by Kevin
Henkes, in which a girl mouse is made fun of because of her unique name—to help
her son feel better about his name. She
said he had been having an issue with the length of his name because it is only
three letters and he felt that it was too short. After reading the trouble that Chrysanthemum
had in the story, she said he felt tremendously better about his own name.
And as an added bonus, another mother from the same class was
supposed to be the guest reader the next time and was asking for advice on
finding a good story, so the mother I helped recommended she visit the Library
and ask us for help. I'm not sure if she actually came in, but I definitely appreciate her promoting the Library's services!
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