Seven years ago, when Jan asked me to
be the StarShine volunteer librarian, I told her that I wasn’t a qualified
librarian.
Her answer
to me was, “Mom, you love kids, you love books, you are a librarian.” That was the beginning of a volunteer
experience I wouldn’t trade for anything. Since then I have taken care of the
many donated books, both new and used, in the StarShine library.
Once again,
this my 7th year, will find me back in the library and reading to
the lower grades. The library operates on a trust system. The kids check out
books by signing their name and the name of the book. We’ve only lost one book.
The book was “Go Dog Go” and it was the first book I read to the kindergarten.
I suspect that I may have misplaced it.
The funniest
book I ever read, to the 4th grade I believe, was Louis Sachar’s,
“Sideways Stories From Wayside School.” I laughed as hard as the kids did while
reading it. It is about a very mean teacher who turned the students into apples
when she thought they misbehaved. By the end of the story the students were
turned back into real kids and the teacher became an apple. The punch line was
when the school janitor put her in his pocket and she was never seen again.
On the day I
finished the story, I presented all the kids with shiny, small, red apples. We
still laugh when we remember that story. I plan to read it again to a new group
of 4th graders this year.
Jan was right, I am a librarian and I
love it.
by Lois
Jamieson
Did you know we’re
turning all of these inspirational Kids
Without Stuff stories into a book?
And --- we’re almost finished.
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help by finding us the best publisher in the world!
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