2012, Peachtree Publishers
Ellsworth Public Library
32 pages
Hardcover $16.95
Goodreads:
cag: 4 stars
Title Page: yellow dragon-y front on light blue, with dragonflies fluttering
front: "Librarian Retires" news article
1st line/s: "Sunrise Elementary School had a BIG problem: their beloved librarian, Miss Lotty, was....../....RETIRING.
What happens when a tried & true librarian's job is taken over by a guy who gets rid of all the books and replaces them with technology? The beloved librarian disappears and a dragon taker her place. This book reinforces the idea that BOTH have their place and they can work TOGETHER.
When I was checking out new-to-me books at the library I almost put this one back until I spotted the 40+ quotes on the endpapers. I was hooked!
"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." - B. A. Billingsley
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain
"Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print." - Barbara W. Tuchman
"When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day." - Jean Fritz
"My library was dukedom large enough." - William Shakespeare
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if there is any left, I buy food and clothes." - Erasmus
"I cannot live without books! - Thomas Jefferson
"Never judge a book by its movie." -J. W. Eagan
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