Sunday Reflections: My first loves . . .
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Ms. Nelson is Missing
Ira Sleeps Over
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Wrinkle in Time
Deenie
It
Phantoms
These are a few of my very first loves . . . what are yours?
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About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 32 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).
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Little House in the BIg Woods
No Flying in the House (kind of a weird one, but my first grade teacher had it in her library, and i must have read it a dozen times that year)
Snow White and Rose Red
The Story of Ferdinand
Leo the Late Bloomer
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Eight Cousins
Santa Calls
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The Little House books
Fox and Friends (James Marshall.. just so funny to me!)
The Chronicles of Narnia
Harold and the Purple Crayon (I remember recognizing that the humor was at several levels and that as I got older and smarter that book would still be funny, but in another way.)
The Blueberry Pie Elf (I remember the illustrations and wanting to eat blueberry pie because of this book. I don’t actually remember the book at all now.)
Gus Was a Friendly Ghost
fairy tales. (My mom used to tell the story of the mother goat and the wolf and the kid who hid in the grandfather clock. Deliciously terrifying to me.)
Beverly Cleary’s books
Miss Hickory (an ancient book but such charming illustrations and I used to know that absolutely everything was alive and had it’s own story, as this book proved)
To Kill a Mockingbird (I didn’t realize that a good book could break your heart.)