School Librarians Rock!

Today is SCHOOL LIBRARIAN DAY. I was my son's school librarian for three years when he was little. I loved reading stories when the kindergarden class came for Story Hour. I also enjoyed helping older students find the books they were looking for using the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System. And I spent a lot of happy hours rearranging the books on the messy shelves so they would be in Dewey Decimal System order for easy finding. What would schools do without their librarians? If you're a school librarian: WE LOVE YOU! If you see a school librarian today, tell her that.  It'll make her day!

MRS. ROOPY IS LOOPY 

by Dan Gutman

          c.2004  A.J. is a second-grader who hates school. And he doesn’t much like know-it-all Andrea either. Will he like the school’s new librarian, Mrs. Roopy? Her hero is Melvil Dewey, the man who invented a number system so librarians and kids can find the books they’re looking for easily. She likes to dress up as book characters and read to the children. They think she’s loopy and needs professional help.

          This is a funny, easy-reader chapter book in the “My Weird School” series.

THE LIBRARY DRAGON

by Carmen Agra Deedy

          c.1994  Sunrise Elementary School puts a help-wanted ad in the local newspaper for a children’s librarian. She must be a thick-skinned professional with a jealous love of books, a burning love for children, and on fire with enthusiasm. No half-baked applicants need apply.

           But the new librarian they hire is a real dragon! Miss Lotta Scales is so over-protective of the books that she won’t let the kids touch them with their gooey fingers and snotty noses. The books are for display only. Also, she burns books she doesn’t like. Nobody likes her --- not the children or their parents, not the teachers or the principal. Will the library ever be kid-friendly again?