“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
---Eleanor Roosevelt
Today I substituted for my friend who is a regular volunteer at the Elementary School Media Center, which of course used to be called the library but now has enough technology in it in addition to books that I guess this name is somewhat accurate.
Still, to me the books are by far the attraction. I love being surrounded by books, whether they are children's books or adult books. I love browsing especially at the non-fiction and biographies, and even the reference books. Fiction is a little less appealing to me at my current stage of life - not sure why, just maybe because I haven't found the right fictional books to read lately, except for Ulysses, which was a huge challenge but interesting to take a stab at!
It was wonderful to see the children so enthusiastic about reading and so excited to be allowed to pick out their two books of the week. Some of them are exceptional readers - way better than I recall myself being at age 7 or 8! But it was fun to see that some of the authors, like Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary, are still popular - and good to know that high quality writing for children doesn't go out of style!
Oh, and the reason I chose this quote is that I saw a biography for children of Eleanor Roosevelt on one of the shelves. I admire her so much - she's definitely one of my heroes (heroines?).
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