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Summer Days at the North Shore Library

The North Shore Library is a great place to visit on those hot summer days. Find some old favorites or discover some new ones in the quiet cool of your neighborhood library.

The Summer Book (641.564  B816) by Susan Branch is part cookbook and part memoir. 

She writes, “The public library became a haven to me on hot summer days when I was about 8 or 9. ~ I spent a good part of every summer luxuriating in the air-conditioned quiet there…  I remember walking home with my arms overflowing with romance, adventure, fantasy & inspiration.  I adored fairy tales, The Red Book of Fairy Tales, The Yellow Book of Fairy Tales, every book of fairy tales.  I loved books about big families like mine, The All of a Kind Family series was my favorite.  When I was 15 I read Gone with the Wind & sobbed into my pillow at the end….  Summer & books go hand-in-hand in my mind.  I read on the porch swing, I read in a tree (I learned about reading in a tree from a book, of course).  I read in my “secret place” (another book), I read at the beach, in the bathtub, in my bed, with my bologna sandwich, at the park & in the car.  These days my favorite thing is to take my book & go out to lunch...”

The Library is still a cool air-conditioned place and a great place to visit in the summer.  And it is still filled with favorite summer reads.

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There are still lots of fairy tales.  Perhaps the books she is thinking of are The Red Fairy Book and the Yellow Fairy Book, a classic set of fairy tales for children edited by Andrew Lang.  We have them both in the 398.2 L269 section of the Juvenile Non-fiction books.  We also have the Blue, Brown, Crimson, Green, Grey, Lilac and Rainbow books in the series!

The All-of-a-Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor is still popular with children.  These are the stories of an immigrant family with five girls living on New York’s Lower East Side in 1912.  There is not much money, but the children are surrounded by the love of their parents. 

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The paperback copy of Gone with the Wind (FIC PBK) by Margaret Mitchell, the classic Civil War story, is perfect for an afternoon read in the summer sun.

 

So come to the North Shore Library to find some old favorites or to discover some new ones.  Kids and teens are invited to join the Summer Reading Club.  There is something for everyone.

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