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I used to have a button that said ‘If you can get to 50 without growing up, you don’t have to!’ When my supervisor at work turned 50 (I’m older than he is.), I gave it to him. He loved it. (I knew he would.)
As far as leaving ‘kid things’ behind, I’m never going to leave Wanda Gag’s book (cats here, cats there, cats and kittens everywhere, hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats), or Winnie the Pooh, or the series that starts with Weetzie Bat, behind. And many others. Never.
I recall my mother (who worked in the Toledo library for several years) saying that a well written children’s book would usually be worth reading for an adult. I think she was referring to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at the time. (If you don’t have it, get ‘The Annotated Alice’ by Martin Gardener. There’s a lot in the Alice books that modern readers won’t get.)
Since I’ve mentioned my mother, I shall have to regress to another thing she told me (she worked there in the 1930s): The best job that black women were allowed to hold at that time was ‘elevator operator’, to be a ‘librarian’ you had to be white. The result was that the (black) elevator operators were often smarter and better educated than the actual (white) librarians. If my mother wanted an intelligent, rational conversation, she would talk to the elevator operators, not the other ‘librarians’.
Remember that the lowest trump card in the Tarot deck is the fool: Trump #0.
Does that mean…. well you can judge as well as I….
Go Imy!
I used to have a button that said ‘If you can get to 50 without growing up, you don’t have to!’ When my supervisor at work turned 50 (I’m older than he is.), I gave it to him. He loved it. (I knew he would.)
As far as leaving ‘kid things’ behind, I’m never going to leave Wanda Gag’s book (cats here, cats there, cats and kittens everywhere, hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats), or Winnie the Pooh, or the series that starts with Weetzie Bat, behind. And many others. Never.
I recall my mother (who worked in the Toledo library for several years) saying that a well written children’s book would usually be worth reading for an adult. I think she was referring to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at the time. (If you don’t have it, get ‘The Annotated Alice’ by Martin Gardener. There’s a lot in the Alice books that modern readers won’t get.)
Since I’ve mentioned my mother, I shall have to regress to another thing she told me (she worked there in the 1930s): The best job that black women were allowed to hold at that time was ‘elevator operator’, to be a ‘librarian’ you had to be white. The result was that the (black) elevator operators were often smarter and better educated than the actual (white) librarians. If my mother wanted an intelligent, rational conversation, she would talk to the elevator operators, not the other ‘librarians’.
Remember that the lowest trump card in the Tarot deck is the fool: Trump #0.
Does that mean…. well you can judge as well as I….