We have the nicest lady in the world who volunteers for us. She works on re-shelving the library books in our tiny, tiny library room. (It was a closet when the basement was an apartment.) Today I witnessed her exasperation at the state of the whole thing: waaaay too many books to shelve, and they were all over the place (new staff didn’t understand the system), and just the fact that it is small, cramped and soooo full.
So today I took some steps to help. I took a bunch of stuff out of there – VHS tapes and Arch books. Don’t gasp. Sure, Arch books are wonderful in that they teach BIble stories, but they are boring as heck to read aloud and to hear. Too many pages of forced rhyme. I know, I’m a heretic.
Anyway, it looks better now. I swept, and even picked up the biggest dead spider I’ve ever seen without calling for help.
Home for dinner, a bath (it was 90 degrees during afternoon recess) and early bed.
Deborah says
I agree. I’ve read one Arch book to preschoolers in my lifetime. It was brutal. Reading them one on one with my girls usually worked, but not with a bigger group.
Brad says
That’s so interesting to hear about Arch books. I am a little surprised and a little not.