I haven’t crossed the threshold of a public library in about 10 years. School libraries, sure, but public libraries? They didn’t exist in Istanbul, Shanghai or Vientiane, and I usually borrowed books from friends for summer reading (and eventually bought a kindle). So when rain prevented us from playing in the lake, my sister Kate and I took her boys to the Lake Orion Library. And it was awesome. AWESOME!
Nico and Paul played with the train.
They staged a puppet show.
They checked out the fish.
They goofed around in the big canoe.
And they checked out a bunch of books.
Did you know you can check out up to 100 books? ONE HUNDRED BOOKS!! I helped the boys find some of my favorites: Pete the Cat, That’s Good That’s Bad, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Animalia, Fish is Fish, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, and many more! And we read them over and over at my house.
I think I may even check out grown-up books while I’m here.
I checked out a bunch of audiobooks from Ottawa’s library, loaded them up on my iPod and they’ve been keeping me awake on my 6-hour drives across the country – I love public libraries!!