Booking Through Thursday - Libraries

Inspired by Booksplease
Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, chances are you started off with trips to the library. (There’s no way my parents could otherwise have kept up with my book habit when I was 10.) So … What is your earliest memory of a library? Who took you? Do you have you any funny/odd memories of the library?

My first memories of libraries are very precious and there were two that really kick started my life as a reader. One is the library from an old school which was torn down long ago and the other was our town library.

Columbus school was very old, even when I was a student and the halls were dark and creepy. The classrooms weren't much better and our cloakrooms, ill lit.

But our weekly trips to the library upstairs showed a different side as it was bright, cheery, and full of books and children. We would sit on the floor and read Chester the Worldly Pig, and other favorites. The other side of the library had books for the bigger kids but they always had neat science books of geology and astronomy.

The town library was downtown next to the police station and across the parking lot is a beautiful park that had a lake with swans and ducks in it. We moved long ago and I googled these pictures and saw that not much has changed about this charming town. I loved riding my bike through the park before browsing the library shelves. Back then it was very different in that kids could take off for hours and no one thought anything of it.