The Library

sorry, balmer, this book is charm city. everything about this book is wonderful. usually, i am not a fan of books in rhyme, but this one is not cloying at all, and i love love love the illustrations. especially this one: i am someone with plenty of injuries from multi-tasking. this is a story about a......more

This is me. Although I did take the time to marry and raise an amazing family, I am as nuts as Elizabeth Brown about books. “Attending only to her book, she’d walk into a door.” Yep. “Books were piled on top of chairs And spread across the floor. Her shelves began to fall apart, As she read more and mo......more

"She didn't like to play with dolls, She didn't like to skate. She learned to read quite early And at an incredible rate." "She manufactured library cards And checked out books to friends, Then shocked them with her midnight raids To collect the books again." "She didn't want potato chips, She did......more

Yep - this is a book about me. <3......more

This book is beautifully illustrated by David Small, and written by his wife, Susan Stewart. There were two things that initially attracted me to this book, the cover and the title. I actually saw the cover first as a box of cards never knowing that it was created from this book. I bought the cards......more