July 21, 2011
10. Newblog2011: 07/21/11 The Children's Book Exhibit at the Department of Libraries
The computer here will shut itself off at 4:15 p.m.
I am back at the Department of Libraries today. I am in the law library, which is around the corner in the building from the Attorney General’s office.
There is a children’s book exhibit on this floor. It appears to be in a small, children’s library. I knew the exhibit was there, and today I asked to see it.
I was led to it by one of the male librarians. It is in the law library, in a small, back room that you get to through a larger room at the back of the library.
The male librarian told me that the exhibit is for consulting, for librarians of other children’s libraries.
The displays on the walls were mostly made up of posters from other years of what was perhaps at the time innocent promotion of child literacy, and which were picked and arranged to take on another meaning for this exhibit:
--In the corridor:
A framed poster that showed a frog surfing on a red book. In the wave was a small sign that said “Moby Frog”
Another poster:
“Catch the Reading Bug,” showing bugs on the beach, one of whom is reading a book called “Harry Swatter and the Order of the Flies”
On the main display, which was a collage of many posters on the wall:
--“Realms of Reading” showing a red dragon on a yellow float in a moat, with a mermaid
-“Reach for the Stars. Read!”
--“Books Ahoy!”
--“Summer Feast” with a picture of an alligator, tongue out and along the side of his mouth, wearing a shirt that said “Books….YUM!” and reading a book that said “Summer Food Poems.”
--“Telling Tails”: picture of a dog with 5 cats on its back
--“Summer Splash!”
--“Surf your library!” same picture of the “Moby Frog” on the red, book surfboard in a large wave, from the corridor
I walked around the corner. First, there was a librarian’s desk. Then, I saw that in front of the first stack of books, there was a cardboard box full of trash that said “Dehumidifier” on it.
The next bookshelf over had a large poster on it that said:
“THE EXQUISITE CORPSE ADVENTURE”
The shelf across from that bookshelf had a sign on it that said:
“WARNING!
Reading Scaredy Squirrel’s nutty adventures can cause severe laughter,” (with a picture of a squirrel)
On the bookshelf directly in front of the librarian’s desk, a book was set apart from the others. It was on its side instead of lined up, so its entire front cover was visible. It said:
“EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW BEFORE I’M FIVE,
By Valorie Fisher”
The librarian’s desk:
On the shelves:
A pig-shaped piggybank
A bath-size rubber duck with 7, smaller rubber ducks in a row next to it
4 paper cut-outs of birds
On the bulletin board:
A sea life calendar
On the desk:
A book called “Bad Island”
A book called “The Sleepless Little Vampire”
A book called “Night Mowing”
A box that had just arrived, from the Penguin Group, 1 Grosset Drive, Kirkwood, NY 13795
The box had two books in it on the top. They were:
“Splurch Academny for Disruptive Boys: The Trouble With Squids”
By Julie Gardner Berry and Sally Faye Gardner
And:
“Ripples,” showing a boy and a girl on the cover. The caption said “Her body is cursed by water….can he save her heart?” by Mandy Hubbard
I went out into the next room to go back out into the library. I hadn’t noticed when I walked in that there’s a large, cardboard box on top of the cabinets near the door back to the main library. The blox says:
“Trident Seafoods” and has a picture of fish all the way along its top edge.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman July 21, 2011 @ 4:14 P.M.
10. Newblog2011: 07/21/11 The Children's Book Exhibit at the Department of Libraries
The computer here will shut itself off at 4:15 p.m.
I am back at the Department of Libraries today. I am in the law library, which is around the corner in the building from the Attorney General’s office.
There is a children’s book exhibit on this floor. It appears to be in a small, children’s library. I knew the exhibit was there, and today I asked to see it.
I was led to it by one of the male librarians. It is in the law library, in a small, back room that you get to through a larger room at the back of the library.
The male librarian told me that the exhibit is for consulting, for librarians of other children’s libraries.
The displays on the walls were mostly made up of posters from other years of what was perhaps at the time innocent promotion of child literacy, and which were picked and arranged to take on another meaning for this exhibit:
--In the corridor:
A framed poster that showed a frog surfing on a red book. In the wave was a small sign that said “Moby Frog”
Another poster:
“Catch the Reading Bug,” showing bugs on the beach, one of whom is reading a book called “Harry Swatter and the Order of the Flies”
On the main display, which was a collage of many posters on the wall:
--“Realms of Reading” showing a red dragon on a yellow float in a moat, with a mermaid
-“Reach for the Stars. Read!”
--“Books Ahoy!”
--“Summer Feast” with a picture of an alligator, tongue out and along the side of his mouth, wearing a shirt that said “Books….YUM!” and reading a book that said “Summer Food Poems.”
--“Telling Tails”: picture of a dog with 5 cats on its back
--“Summer Splash!”
--“Surf your library!” same picture of the “Moby Frog” on the red, book surfboard in a large wave, from the corridor
I walked around the corner. First, there was a librarian’s desk. Then, I saw that in front of the first stack of books, there was a cardboard box full of trash that said “Dehumidifier” on it.
The next bookshelf over had a large poster on it that said:
“THE EXQUISITE CORPSE ADVENTURE”
The shelf across from that bookshelf had a sign on it that said:
“WARNING!
Reading Scaredy Squirrel’s nutty adventures can cause severe laughter,” (with a picture of a squirrel)
On the bookshelf directly in front of the librarian’s desk, a book was set apart from the others. It was on its side instead of lined up, so its entire front cover was visible. It said:
“EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW BEFORE I’M FIVE,
By Valorie Fisher”
The librarian’s desk:
On the shelves:
A pig-shaped piggybank
A bath-size rubber duck with 7, smaller rubber ducks in a row next to it
4 paper cut-outs of birds
On the bulletin board:
A sea life calendar
On the desk:
A book called “Bad Island”
A book called “The Sleepless Little Vampire”
A book called “Night Mowing”
A box that had just arrived, from the Penguin Group, 1 Grosset Drive, Kirkwood, NY 13795
The box had two books in it on the top. They were:
“Splurch Academny for Disruptive Boys: The Trouble With Squids”
By Julie Gardner Berry and Sally Faye Gardner
And:
“Ripples,” showing a boy and a girl on the cover. The caption said “Her body is cursed by water….can he save her heart?” by Mandy Hubbard
I went out into the next room to go back out into the library. I hadn’t noticed when I walked in that there’s a large, cardboard box on top of the cabinets near the door back to the main library. The blox says:
“Trident Seafoods” and has a picture of fish all the way along its top edge.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman July 21, 2011 @ 4:14 P.M.