Reading is an adventure
At the Library with Nancy Middaugh
Reading for children shouldn’t be something they do only from September through May. At the Hamburg Public Library, we like to think of reading as a year round adventure.
Although the library does have books that meet AR requirements, we suggest that the summer months might be a good time to discover new authors, new styles and new genres.
The library has dozens of board books which are just right for little hands. For instance, toddlers can discover dinosaurs in “Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs” (Barton), learn rhymes with “My Sunny Day, Any Day Nursery Rhyme Book” (Beers), or sing along with “Wheels on the Bus” (Raffi). You can introduce children to numbers in “One, Two, Three!” (Boynton), colors with “My Very First Book of Colors” (Carle), and letters via “Miss Spider’s ABC” (Kirk).
Olivia Laingâs Reading Piles Are Far From Organized
Credit.Jillian Tamaki
April 29, 2021
âThere are something like 15,000 books in our house,â says the author of âEverybodyâ and other books, âincluding pretty much every poetry pamphlet published in the 20th century. Itâs a problem.â
What books are on your night stand?
Seed catalogs, and a book that says on the cover âBear I love you, bite my head offâ (on closer inspection itâs called âBear,â by Marian Engel).
Whatâs the last great book you read?
âIn the Cut,â by Susanna Moore. Vicious, idiosyncratic, stylish, erotic, frightening. Itâs a noirish feminist thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder. Up there with the great New York novels.
Brannavan Gnanalingam says he would not be a writer if it were not for libraries.
OPINION: Every fortnight, my mum walks down to Naenae Library to read my columns. She has a chat to the librarians, who often pass on their views of my column for that week. It’s turned into a bit of a ritual for her. I grew up around libraries. Or, more accurately, I grew up in libraries. I would spend hours in the Naenae Library initially, and then the War Memorial Library in Lower Hutt, reading and reading. I then learned I could take books home, which probably saved my mum a lot of time. She never complained about the time I’d spend in there. She never refused to take me, whenever I asked. We didn’t start off with any books in my house. We ended up with thousands.