In a previous post, I talked about visiting a library that I didn’t like. Lucky for me, my library is part of a network making up five or six different libraries, so on Monday I went to a different one. I’ve been to this library before to sell books at an author talk, and really loved their children’s section: right in the middle of the library, towering over the picture book section, is a wonderful swirly metal tree. It lights up and changes colour, and looks like it has grown right out of a children’s novel. I’ll have to go visit again. I borrowed ‘Harriet the Spy’ by Louise Fitzhugh, Lemony Snicket’s ‘The Bad Beginning’ and a bind-up of four stories by Phillip Pullman, including ‘Clockwork’. I have a week off before university starts up again, so I’m hoping to get lots of reading done! (I haven’t in the past few days, due to stocktake at the bookstore. Groan.)
1001 Children's Books 
