4.21.2005
April not only brings showers, it brings great YA librarian stories!
#1
I've been helping a kid with an art project (they're having an art sale at school.) He decided he wanted to make a calendar of himself, so I took pictures of him and he's working on it in Publisher. I'd been helping him for about 10 minutes and asked if he was cool for a couple of minutes.
Me: Are you ok working on it by yourself?
Kid: Not really...if I was you, I'd pull up a chair.
Guess I better go check on him....
#2
Kid: So it's National Library Week, huh?
Me: Yup. Ya think that's a good idea?
Kid: Yeah. Cause libraries should be honored.
#3
Here's the poem about the Pope...(typed exactly as it's written)
Hope is the Pope
But He choked
And it is bad
And it is sad
He is whith
Catholic He Had
A click but
He will be
Remembered
John Paul II.
-J.G. Age 12
#4
"Classic"
Me: Hey guys, we're having a cool program next week if you want to come...it's geared to guys only though...
Kid: It's not like that time at the rec center when they split the boys and girls is it? It was [whispers] sex ed...they pulled out something we did NOT want to see....
Me: Nooooo, it's definitely not that!
#1
I've been helping a kid with an art project (they're having an art sale at school.) He decided he wanted to make a calendar of himself, so I took pictures of him and he's working on it in Publisher. I'd been helping him for about 10 minutes and asked if he was cool for a couple of minutes.
Me: Are you ok working on it by yourself?
Kid: Not really...if I was you, I'd pull up a chair.
Guess I better go check on him....
#2
Kid: So it's National Library Week, huh?
Me: Yup. Ya think that's a good idea?
Kid: Yeah. Cause libraries should be honored.
#3
Here's the poem about the Pope...(typed exactly as it's written)
Hope is the Pope
But He choked
And it is bad
And it is sad
He is whith
Catholic He Had
A click but
He will be
Remembered
John Paul II.
-J.G. Age 12
#4
"Classic"
Me: Hey guys, we're having a cool program next week if you want to come...it's geared to guys only though...
Kid: It's not like that time at the rec center when they split the boys and girls is it? It was [whispers] sex ed...they pulled out something we did NOT want to see....
Me: Nooooo, it's definitely not that!
4.17.2005
Story #1:
I had a 10 year old boy fill out the survey, and he asked if he had to write why he liked the library. He said that he couldn't explain it - when I asked him to try, he said that he just couldn't. I didn't push him. Maybe I read too much into his response, but knowing that he and his brother sleep on the couch in their apartment because it's only a one-bedroom, and knowing that he had a babysitter for a while but didn't like it and preferred the library, it dawned on me that for some (maybe a lot) of the kids, our centers truly are places of safety and comfort and, like that teen girl wrote, an opportunity to be distracted from everything else for a while.
Usually I forget, but I try to remember that we do affect kids' lives in ways that cannot be measured on stats forms.
Story #2:
Kid: Do you have book about the woman killer?
me: A woman killer? Is that the title?
Kid: I don't know. A friend brought it to school. He checked it out here.
me: Hmm. Is it about a woman that kills people?
Kid: I don't know. It's about sharks.
I pointed him to the shark books and he was happy.
Unusual Name for April:
Mystique - for a boy
I had a 10 year old boy fill out the survey, and he asked if he had to write why he liked the library. He said that he couldn't explain it - when I asked him to try, he said that he just couldn't. I didn't push him. Maybe I read too much into his response, but knowing that he and his brother sleep on the couch in their apartment because it's only a one-bedroom, and knowing that he had a babysitter for a while but didn't like it and preferred the library, it dawned on me that for some (maybe a lot) of the kids, our centers truly are places of safety and comfort and, like that teen girl wrote, an opportunity to be distracted from everything else for a while.
Usually I forget, but I try to remember that we do affect kids' lives in ways that cannot be measured on stats forms.
Story #2:
Kid: Do you have book about the woman killer?
me: A woman killer? Is that the title?
Kid: I don't know. A friend brought it to school. He checked it out here.
me: Hmm. Is it about a woman that kills people?
Kid: I don't know. It's about sharks.
I pointed him to the shark books and he was happy.
Unusual Name for April:
Mystique - for a boy
