#children in library

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Two young readers in the Seward Park Public Library on the Lower East Side, ca. 1925.

Photo: NYPL

[elodieunderglass]

hi. what do you mean

[booksinmythorax]

My dear friends: When a librarian or teacher says "Audiobooks count as reading", we do not literally mean that audiobooks are the same as decoding visual meaning via symbols representing sounds. We mean, among other things:

Audiobooks can expose listeners to new vocabulary and forms of syntax.

Audiobooks can present listeners with long-form fictional narratives with engaging characters, interesting literary devices, and poetic turns of phrase.

Audiobooks can teach listeners new information in a long-form manner that goes into depth or wide breadth on a particular subject or subjects.

Audiobooks can help listeners' verbal comprehension skills.

Audiobooks can do all these things without presenting the same difficulties to blind, low vision, partially sighted, visually impaired, or dyslexic listeners; listeners with ADHD; listeners who experience physical difficulty with holding a book or e-reader; or listeners who are disabled in a host of other ways that a physical book or e-reader might present.

The written word is not specially imbued with magical noble worth above the spoken word, and if you think it is, you may have some ableism and/or racism to deconstruct.

[marysooart]

i love naruto but sasuke is my favorite!

Hope you like sasuke in my style

[the-forest-library]

[nostalgicore]

Public library ❤️

[thefugitivesaint]

L. Kate Deal, 'The Wild Swans', ''Child Library Readers'', Book Four, 1928

[thehmn]

I just visited a library for the first time in, I dunno, seven years and oh my god the childhood memories.

If at all possible take the children in your life to a library once a month if not more. It will give them such a special view of the world. I felt so calm walking around, smelling the old books and looking at the people. Young students, immigrants studying up on their tests, old people chatting, women in their 30’s hunkering down with books on sewing. It probably also helped that this library is an extension to the social services building so you literally get people from all walks of life who need to register stuff or renew their passports and whatnot.

As an adult I’ve realized I grew up pretty poor and the library must have been a lifesaver for my parents. Our mom is a bookworm and would take us there regularly and while she looked for novels in the boring adult part of the library my brother and I dug through the children’s library where we could get comics, movies and games. And it was the one place we could get anything we wanted because it was all free. Now as an adult I realized it also accustomed me to all sorts of people that I wouldn’t necessarily have met as a child.

It’s just a really good and cool place y’all.

[asexualbookbird]

maybe going to the library will fix me

[storybookprincess]

so i’m a children’s librarian. a few weeks ago, i’m helping our circulation staff process our holds shelf. this is our designated place where books that patrons have requested sit & await pickup, labeled with the patron’s name so they’re easy to identify. i notice that one patron has placed several volumes of demon slayer manga on hold & i remember that i have some demon slayer vinyl stickers in my desk. i decide that it would be cool to slip a few stickers inside the manga as a fun surprise for when they get checked out. so i do just that. and then i promptly forget all about it

until yesterday, when a young teenager approached my desk & said, “excuse me, but were you the one who gave me those stickers??” it took me several seconds to even know what they’re talking about, because this was a few weeks ago & i didnt think much of it at the time (and also because i give a lot of kids stickers. comes with the territory), but I finally connected the dots and realized that yeah, it was me

at which point they held out a few springs of fresh picked lavender secured with masking tape and said “i couldn’t stop thinking about it, and i wanted to give you something in return, but this is all i have.”

needless to say i lost my shit

children’s librarianship is the coolest profession in the world sometimes

[yeehawpim]

have a happy memory as hanukkah is starting on dec 7! I've been frantically searching for a copy of this book in libraries since I remembered it.

here is a video I found of the author Eric Kimmel reading it aloud

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of the things that continues to strike me on reread is how much the character of Darcy, and Austen through him, finds Mr. Bennet dead. And how much Elizabeth, in growing and changing and discarding her past blindness, has to move past her way of seeing her father and thus of seeing reality, because the two are connected! Darcy’s letter exposes her father’s flaws to Elizabeth in a way she’d never been able to see before. Most especially the way his laziness and neglect of his own gifts have hurt his family and that ultimately he doesn’t. care. Not enough to change. It literally says that she comes home from Hunsford and tries to laugh at her sisters’ and mother’s folly (the way she used to; the way her father has taught her to by example for her whole life) and she can’t anymore! It sticks in her throat. She is grieved by the failures that she sees in him, all the more so because she IS his favorite and she loves him! And the thing about Mr. Bennet is he never changes. The Lydia/wickham situation exposes to him sharply his own conduct and the consequences and he feels it! Because he is neither stupid nor unfeeling. But he, like everyone, has free will. And he chooses not to change when the opportunity presents itself. He even jokes about how quickly his feeling bad will pass and how soon everything will go back to normal, to his laziness and his selfishness. He is set in his ways and he serves as a contrast to Elizabeth’s personal journey because he embodies a version of a person she could have become and was in danger of becoming if her only goal at all times was to laugh at and judge people from the sidelines.

[someblueyearning]

I love Vincent x Thomas with my heart and soul because with all that forbidden love legit all they want is vanilla marital sex. They are not angsty, no hate, just romantic love.

They are the older couple in the house next door. You look out the window to the beautiful garden they have grown having been in the neighborhood for decades. You ask them how they met, and they gush talking how they found each other at a time they both felt lost and it felt like a second chance. They are both retired. They are active participants in the community. They go to church every Sunday. Their sons and daughters visit every other week, the yard filled with noise of their grandchildren playing. They are that soft quiet love that make people wish they grow old together for.

But he is the Pope and he is the Dean.

[comickergirl]

The full illustrated list! Of Shoujo/Josei titles I read/enjoyed in 2024!

[marysooart]

no matter what happens obito is the best and most well written character. i love him

[reyisnull]

I can’t be the only one who thinks that Miss peregrines home for peculiar children would thrive as an animated or stop motion TV series. Maybe one day we’ll get our Percy Jackson treatment 😔😔