Support Briarglen Elementary!
Say “Show Me the Money!” and Briarglen gets 10 cents!”
As part of the Library Lovin’ challenge organized by writerjenn, I’m raising money to support Briarglen Elementary’s Library ELL and Special Education program! Briarglen, a Title 1 school in my home school district, will receive a number of Playaways to help ELL students and struggling/reluctant readers improve their language skills while growing their love for books. You can read more about Playaways from Follett Educational Services and Findaway World, creator of Playaway.
Playaways for Briarglen!
So get on it by leaving a comment below.
Or if you want, you can read why I am so passionate about libraries …
Libraries got me through what could have been “the ultimate boring childhood.” I wasn’t the richest kid, growing up, and the opportunity to buy new books, hot off the shelves at the local bookstore, never really presented itself until I graduated college. In fact, my personal library as a tween was very much like Paris Pan’s stash in PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE (coming in June, 2009). My collection was made entirely of library discards, garage sales, and whatever my mother could get for under $1. As a result, I spent endless hours at the library. Only at the library, could I find the latest books on the stuff I loved–fiction novels featuring animals, ghost stories, and of course, the important stuff I did not want to learn from any Liu. I still remember the nonfiction books I checked out about my “changing body” and “how babies are made” that ultimately helped me navigate my parents’ bizarre explanations that making babies actually involved tadpoles and Alaskan salmon migration. (See Chapter 14, PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE).
At any rate, I want to extend a HUGE thank you to all libraries who serve children and teens, who, like me, need good books for entertainment and solid parental advice.
NOW START COMMENTING BELOW (one comment per person) and say, “Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!”
When you’re done, click on the glowstick below to take the Dare.
PARIS PAN, nominated for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2010
Paris Pan Takes the Dare draws you in and won't let you go until the end."
Money, money, money!
Show Me The Money!
This is great. Libraries are so important as hubs of knowledge and as a cultural center for knowledge sharing.
Libraries are informative and helpful.
Show me the money!!!
I’m an assistant librarian at an elementary school – best job in the world!
I love libraries! Good luck:)
Libraries are a persons best friend/
Good Luck!
We love our lil town library!
Love for the library!
Show me the GREEN stuff, Cynthea!
Cynthea, show me the money!
I want a bookplate
Great idea. Hope you make your goal.
Libraries are often under appreciated, but come in handy during crunch time.
I like to read.
I support public libraries.
I grew up in libraries – they’ve always been special places to me.
Ka-ching!
Libraries make it possible for all people to read, not just those who can afford to purchase the books. They need books, lots of books. Please give them funds, so that our civilization does not regress back to cave dwelling. That is all.
You know, I actually don’t mind paying late fees on library books because hey, I know the money’s going to something I really care about. Unless it’s one of those times when I keep 5 DVDs out for a week too long and end up owing $50 – that hurts a little. I still pay it, though (even if I don’t pay it all at once).
Libraries rock! (and so does Cynthea!)
I’m the President of The Friends of the Edison, NJ Public Library, so I guess you can tell what I feel about libaries.
A great challenge – in these economic times, we need free public libraries more than ever.
So, SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Show us the money, mama needs some new shoes, no, books
Show me the money for those new books
Libraries rock!
I love libraries!!! What a great invention.
Thanks.
I love the smell and how you can totally get lost in the stacks.
I spent so much time at the library during my high school years, I’m surprised I graduated. Or that the librarians didn’t know my name. I was there practically every weekend!! And I did my first library visit as an author last year, which was fun, but a little nervewracking. I don’t frequent libraries now as much I used to, but I do love them.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE my library! I’m so glad you’re doing this! Good luck!
I love libraries too! One of my favorite places as a kid, since buying new books was usually out of the question.
in our little town, we have a general store,
a house of worship, and a library. who needs anything more? (not i)!
Libraries are wondrous places and ours is having a super sale of books this weekend, where I’ll probably buy sacks of everything from picture books to cook books. Now, where do I put them?
Our local public library played an enormous role in my childhood, my love of books, and my love of writing. Even today, I spend much of my writing time in our local library. There’s something magical about a library.
Libraries are a family meeting, a gathering of minds, a place for everything human. If a child has a library she/he never has to start from scratch at anything–not designing cars, or gardening, or physics, or surviving a broken heart.
Libraries are the best!
I love love love LOOOOOVE libraries. XOXOXO what a wonderful way to support them!!
You and Snoop rock!
I love libraries, too.
Support your local library–and any other library you’d like to support ^.^
Cool, Cynthea!
good luck!
SHOW ME THE MONEY! Woohoo!
SHOW ME THE MONEY! Go Cynthea!
Keep going Snoop! We love books and the library.
Even though I’m half dead I’m sitting up to comment!
What a great, easy way to help — thanks, Cynthia!
Libraries, libraries–the world’s a better place when viewed from a library!
Show me the money!!!
My favorite memories from childhood are the long walks I used to take to the town library in the summer. And the walks home, nose buried in a wonderful story. Bliss!
Yup. I love libraries. Thanks for supporting them!
SHOW MMEEEEEE THE MMMOOOOOONNNNEEEEEEEYYYYYYYY
SHOW MEEEEEE THE MMMOOOOONNNNEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYY
“Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONKEY!!!”
No, that’s not right.
“Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONDAY!!!”
Nope, still wrong.
“Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!”
But seriously, I, too love cruising library discard sales for cheap books. Now, I’m mainly doing it for my son, buying him books that can be all his.
He’s 6, and he loves to read, and I’m trying to encourage that, and if I win a copy of Paris Pan, I will let him read that, too,…
but only after I’M finished reading it, of course.
I’d spend so much time at the library that everyone knew my name, including the janitors!!
Hugs to Snoop!
Libraries are awesome. What would we do without them?
Thanks for doing this, Cynthea.
I heart libraries (and Snoop!)
Just read in Peter Morville’s Information Architecture that, thanks to the Internet, we’re now all librarians.
Toss in another dime!
Cynthea….libraries ROCK and so do you. Now…
Show me the Money!
Deb
Show me the money!
Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
Show me the money!
Book me, Dano!
As a fellow librarian, I applaud, no, I bow to you for the work you are doing to support this library. Everyday, librarians feel the heartbreak of trying to raise money for the needy children its serves. My library is also Title I, and I am so proud to be a part of such an awesome event. Hats off to you!!! And Snoops, I would love you to visit! We have lots of salad in the school cafeteria.
Show me the money!
Good luck! You can do it!
Let me give a shout out to librarians everywhere….THANK YOU!!!! My mom was a librarian at one time, too. They work hard to keep books alive.
Here’s another dime. Ka-ching.
Thanks for supporting libraries!
Show me the money!!!!
When I was a child, my father would drive me to the library every Saturday morning. I would read two or three books. Today in my 60′s, I have wonderful memories of those times.
Librarians are my heroes. I was a mal-contented fourth grader who wanted to drop out and get a real job until my school librarian handed me a copy of Lloyd Alexander’s “The Book of Three.” A classic copy sits on my mantelpiece today as a reminder of what a powerful tool a story can be in changing the course of someone’s life. Thanks to librarians everywhere – you open up whole new worlds.
Cynthea – I ADORE the library! Anything to support them! And I want those bookplates too!!!!
Way to go, Cynthea! Lots of love to libraries and librarians!
Go Cyn Go! Mo Money Mo Money!
Keep the comments going!! I want to salute all the historical libraries that are still holding their past along with marching into the future. Let’s all hunt up an older library and donate to their maintenance and building funds!
Cynthea – show us the $$$$$!!
Hey, Snoop – SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Such a great idea! Can’t wait to participate in the next one!
Libraries rule!
Cynthea Liu and libraries, too!
Hooray for books! Yay for libraries!
OOOOOOHklahoma where the books come sweepin’ down from Cynthea…
(I’m a writer, not a song lyricist.)
My girls love the library, they’d stay there all day, all night if I let them. Hey that’s not a bad idea. Slumber parties at the library! Go Libraries!!!
Yay libraries and Cynthea and Snoop!!!
Hey, I was even “Town Librarian for a Day” when I was in seventh grade!
I did love that library. I would take out stacks and stacks of Oz books: twenty at a time! And the thrill of the ride home in the car, with all those mysterious unread books beside me . . . . Which one to start with? How to choose?
Here’s my two cents, times five. Show me the money!
Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
And yay libraries–I have many good memories of libraries growing up, even back when my mom LIED TO ME and told me the library only allowed you to check out ten books at a time. (Took me about ten years to figure out it wasn’t true…)
When I move to a new town, the library is always the first place I check out!
Show me the money!
Reporting for duty, ma’am!
(And Maplebunny says ‘hi’ to Snoop!)
Looking forward to reading your book. Thanks for supporting Oklahoma’s libraries.
I love libraries. They’re the new black!
Go libraries go!!
I once dated a girl who used to practically live at the library when she was younger. She would read so much that her mother used to unscrew her light just to get her to sleep. Now she is quickly on her way to becoming an editor, hopefully an author someday. Without that library she wouldnt be the amazing person she is today.
go librarians!
woo libraries
I don’t know what I’d do without my library. The librarians the best and keep me from going broke!
Thanks, Cynthea.
Love them libraries!!!
Fell in love with libraries in school. Married a “Book aholic.” Now have a grandchild that loves the library.
A town without a library is like a chef without a recipe book
I grew up in the library, and now I work in one! Long live libraries!
Homier than home
The library welcomes me
With wide open dreams
Libraries rock!
Libraries offer so much information, entertainment and adventure.
I love libraries! In fact, I’m a librarian so I appreciate this contest muchos.
I love libraries, I’m addicted to books so going twice a week really helps my pocket book.
I love my local library. I’m in there at least twice a week. I’d be in the poor house if it weren’t for libraries. My husband says I’m addicted to books and I think he may be right.
Libraries rule!
Thanks, Cynthea, for contributing to such a worthy cause!
Not to sure who has the better time amongst the books…my three-year-old or me. We always find something we havn’t seen–or read–before.
I love the library, so many books, so little time!
Lots of books
Interesting reading
Biographies
Realistic Fiction
Any topic you want
Read ’til you drop
You can’t beat a library!
This is so cool! Here’s my 20 cents worth….
I downsized myself in August to make time to pursue my writing dream. If it weren’t for my local libraries (school and public), I would have been feeding my kids packing peanuts by now to afford all the books I need to educate myself in my genre! Yay, libraries!
Libraries need to be kept alive in the eyes of our teens. The wonder of books, availability of information and peaceful surroundings are getting overshadowed by the Internet. Let’s keep those library doors swinging.
Whether it’s a steel van with the air conditioner buzzing in the back window or floor to ceiling leather bound volumes in the Biltmore House, libraries soothe the soul.
Libraries Rock.
There is something about the smell, and the crackle a library book sometimes makes when you open it, that I love!
Libraries ROCK. Can’t live without them!!!
Enjoy the public library especially when my child says I don’t want to get a book this week, and we walk out of the library with three children’s books.
Wow, it’s still going! This is such a great challenge. Hooray for libraries and thanks Cynthea.
I love libraries! Keep up the good work.
Every kid needs a great library. Thanks for working to make it happen, Cynthia!
Show me the money!! What a great thing you’re doing!
Go libraries!
What would we do without libraries? A scary thought. Our local library is always the default destination on a free or rainy day in my town. My kids love it. I love it. We need to protect and cherish our libraries for the treasures that they are.
I’ve done a lot of research over the years in libraries. I’ve taken out movies and lots of books, even ones on how to cure animals. They are super!
I love libraries too….you can read as much as you want–all for free!
So grateful that you are doing this for libraries, Cynthea!
Show me the money!
My mom took us kids to the library every week, to browse and select whatever three books we liked. Mom brought home detective novels, we loved picture books. Everyone got what they wanted in the library.
I also spent much of my childhood in the local library as we couldn’t afford books and I loved reading. Still can’t afford many new books, still love reading but thank goodness I now work at a library! I’m one of their best customers!
A visit to the Library is part of growing up – a shared experience. Are we going to deprive the next generation of this pleasure?
Libraries are gateways to new worlds, dreams and ideas where children young and old can enter and explore.
Save our libraries and foster the growth of our children to be intelligent and caring human beings.
I’ve loved going to libraries since I was a kid. It’s such fun going to Fluffy’s Friends at our local library with my 2 year old. And I can’t wait for a second round of Mother Goose Story Time once my baby reaches 6 months!
Thanks for supporting a wonderful cause!
Libraries are great for kids to discover other worlds without leaving this one.
Show me the money, Snoop! A carrot awaits you in the children’s section.
Thanks, Cynthea.
Library books smell great!!
I love libraries so much I went to Library Science school. Libraries ROCK!!
We love libraries in our house. Our local library runs a summer reading club, which gets the kids so excited about reading and reading a lot. We also like to donate books to our library when they don’t fit in ours anymore. Yeah libraries!
libraries rock! ours is one of my favorite places in town!
Love, love, love my local library. In fact, we take out so many books, DVD’s, CD’s and books on tape for our family of four that we are single handedly supporting our library with our late fees. It’s difficult keeping track of that many checked items!
Really want to do red light green light but can’t get organized enough at the moment – argh!! Did want to support the libraries, though. You know I loves those libraries!!
I don’t think a month goes by when I don’t take a zillion books out of the local library for me and the kids. Go, libraries!
I love libraries!
Helping libraries is what it’s all about.
When I enter the main branch of he Boston Public library, I breath it in. And this even when it is smelly. That is how much I love libraries.
This is such a great thing you’re doing!
Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
Yay Libraries and Snoop!
:0)
I’d like to take this time to thank my eighteenth-century hottie boyfriend Ben Franklin for starting libraries. If it wasn’t for him I’d have nowhere to hide on Sundays. Libraries = Love
I don’t know what I would have done without libraries – certainly not read, that’s for sure.
Wooo! Libraries! Yeah!
I heart libraries!!! They’re hoppin’!
I missed this the first time – glad you extended the deadline! Libraries rock; thanks for making a difference!
When I was a child my mother used to take me to the library every Friday to check out new books to read for the following week.
Support your public libraries!
Loving libraries and loving you!
You can travel anywhere in the world, through space, through time, and into the future at the library!
I {heart} libraries. If I could live at a library I would. I tried that once, but the librarian found me under the kiddies table at closing and made me leave. I think the pillow gave me away.
Libraries are the only way I can keep up with the voracious reading appetites of my three kids. Hooray for libraries!
Respect your library!
Libraries saved my scholastic bacon. Love them and librarians
Show me the money!
Oh wow, that’s a great thing you’re doing! Supporting libraries all the way – I used to volunteer at one. And spent a fair bit of time at libraries too.
Really good books though I still buy copies of just to have them!
Oh, and I got the Call of China bookplates in the mail today, they’re awesome. Thanks so much!!
Thanks for doing this challenge. And show me the money! I love libraries. Basically, going to the library as a child saved my life. Now I use the libary as my office. Don’t tell anyone.
Lovin’ those libraries!
Love the library- it’s my second home!!!
I could get lost in a library! I love them so much. Not only do I love fiction but when I am researching non-fiction or research papers . . . ah!!! Heaven. Go libraries!
I owe a lot of happy reading memories to the old Stratham Memorial Library.
It was a magical place.
Go to the library! Today!
Wooohoooo for libraries!
It’s great to see someone support their local libraries so much. Thank-you!
This sounds great!
Show us the money.
I had a hand me-down bike growing up that I rode to the library every week where i would check out 20-25 books a week. I loved your post. Now show me the money, Cynthea!
I love libraries SO MUCH that I look forward to paying my taxes just because they’re supporting my beloved libraries!
A library is a blessed thing.
Great job, Cynthea!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE libraries! They were my escape when I was younger. I still head over to my hometown library whenever I get a chance! Way to go Cynthea!
Love libraries! And what’s so sad with the latest rounds of cuts is that libraries are one of the first to be affected. I just donated some Cybils books to my local library and the head librarian was so excited! I heart libraries. They are the ones that helped me when I was growing up in a not too great enviroment. Books were my escape. I bet other teens and kids feel the same.
Way to go Cynthea! I’m hoping to start Great Call any day now… Jen
YAY! So glad you’re participating in this. What would we do without libraries?
SHOW ME THE DINERO!!!
Is it wrong to belong to libraries in multiple counties and visit several branches in one day? I couldn’t have gotten through childhood without my library either – both the public one and the awesome one at my elementary school!
I love libraries! Great fund raising idea!! Good luck!!
Go, Cynthea! Go, libraries! Go, Paris Pan Takes the Dare!
Tarie (who is waiting impatiently for The Great Call of China to hit Philippine bookstores)
What a generous and awesome community of bloggers. Libraries are the best.
LOVE libraries — grew up from one three blocks away.
Go, Cynthea!
When I was a kid, I think I was on a ‘high’ when I came out of the library with my 8 books — knowing I had new worlds to to absorb myself in. As an adult, I now can have 50 at a time, and sometimes I do! (plus my daughter’s 50!) There’s still that same high. Love it!
Hoorah for libraries and for books and for readers and for you for donating!
And thank you for your comment on mine as well!
*/* Yay! for libraries!
Thanks so much for doing this! I put a link to the challenge on my Facebook page.
Janet Halfmann, Author
Little Skink’s Tail
Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
Libraries rock! Thanks for your generosity!
I LOVE libraries!
Thanks for doing this Cynthea! yay for libraries!
This is awesome, Cynthea! Thanks!
Libraries and librarians rock!
Happy spring to snoop, cynthea and fellow book lovers. Show the libraries the money!
If anyone can get 1000 comments, YOU can;)
Go Libraries!
Go Cyn!
Bev
http://www.classof2k9.com
Thanks to Librarians everywhere. I love our Library. Now show me the money!
On behalf of my fellow librarians everywhere, all I want to say is: thank you!
This is so cool, Cynthea. I heart, adore, dig, and worship libraries!
I want to put in a plug here for high school librarians. I am a high school English teacher and they are such a valuable resource for me for getting kids motivated to read. I also want to thank my elementary school librarian, Mrs. Gilardhi for turning me onto reading. She was quite a woman.
Thank you for doing this challenge!
(I’m having a bit of trouble getting this comment to post, so my apologies if it comes through three times.)
All best,
Debbie Diesen
http://www.deborahdiesen.com
Thank you for doing this challenge!
(If this comment shows up twice, my apologies — the page reloaded on me, and I wasn’t sure if it went through or not…
Thanks for being a part of this wonderful library lovin’ challenge. I’m in on it too! http://susanwrites.livejournal.com/212144.html
Books saved me until I was strong enough to save myself.
Celebrating cross-cultural books! Cheers,
Thank you so much for doing this!
Living in a city with a lot of poverty – libraries offer a sanctuary, a place to escape the noise and see the possibilites of life.
I wish I could rent one of those little study rooms at my library so I could stay overnight. Or maybe I just need to find a library that’s open around the clock.
Yay, libraries! This is a great challenge.
Made my donation to my library today!
I work in a library in Japan AND I was born in Oklahoma, so how can I not comment!
Libraries are the ultimate adventure playground of the mind for all ages. Well done, Cynthea.
Have you hugged your librarian today?
Libraries rock!
Libraries are portals to the world. Mine is thinking of closing to save our little city money. That can’t happen! Save our portals(libraries)!
Ooo. Yay! Almost 100!!
I love my library. And pretty much all libraries.
I don’t want to see the money, I want to see the books. I’m like that.
Thank you for the Call of China bookplates and supporting libraries!
coll
I got my party favor earlier this week. Thank you for sending those, and thank you for taking part in this!
Everyone knows libraries rock. They were the highlight of my week as a kid growing up in a non-material world.
Libraries are a kid’s best friend. Thank you for doing this, Cynthea.
So grateful to live three steps from our local library! We are there at least two or three times a week! What a great thing you are doing, Cynthea! Thanks!
Visits to the library were one of my weekly highlights as a child. I’d leave with a pile and devour them eagerly! I wish more children now would feel like I did back then.
Look forward to my book template!
and
SHOW ME THE MONEY! (Great you are making a donation on the back of this.)
Need to see that money!
I feel very fortunate to live within walking distance of our local library. It feels like a second home to me! I take my kids to the weekly story time/craft time and all the summer activities they put on. I believe libraries are one of America’s most important institutions, not only for children, but also adults.
There is nothing like walking into a library and being able to reach out and touch all those books. It’s having the opportunity to become anything or anyone. I don’t know about you but as a child I needed this escape (still do sometimes.
Libraries rock!
-NAP
Libaries rule!! If we ever go totally electronic, I’ll hate it. No time to carry around a book and sneak peeks in class or on planes and underline important bits and remember the feelings of reading them for the first time. Support libraries and the printed word!! Everybody read!!
And Cynthia, show me the money!!
Kate
The library in Boise has a big sign that says “LIBRARY!” It’s great to see so much support for libraries.
Good for you!
I’ve always been in love with libraries too.
I love libraries! I had little one in my room when I was growing up, and I still have my childhood books with the bookplates in them that my grandma gave me.
BTW, thanks for your gorgeous bookplates, Cynthea! Your party favors rocked!
I heart libraries. Some of my greatest memories are going to the library with my mom to get great books.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
show them the money honey!
Even though I’m probably waaaay too late, I’m posting this anyhoo….LONG LIVE LIBRARIES! Thanks, Cynthea!
Long live libraries! And of course long live Snoop also…
I love libraries! I LOVE online search, reserve and renew!!!
Great thing for libraries! I relied heavily on them when I was a kid.
I also relied heavily on libraries when I was a kid. We couldn’t afford to buy new books either.
Libraries…ROCK!
More funding for libraries!
Yay for libraries!
Libraries make me sooooo haaaapppyyyy!
Man, all of your posts are warranting a “YEAH, BABY!”
And a special “YEAH, BABY!” goes out to libraries everywhere.
I think it’s wonderful you’re doing this!
I cannot imagine what my life would have been like if I had not had access to our small local library. All through my childhood and teens it was a safe haven full of different lives, histories and stories. I can smell it now as I type. Show me the money Cynthea and let’s get it to the libraries that need it.
Love the library! I went there frequently as a kid. My mom even took me there to check out a SEX book for our TALK! Yikes!
I take my kids now a few times a month and check out the kids magazines to see what they are accepting…
I love the library – I’ve even done a few blogs about it on my site. Thanks for the reminder Cynthea.
When I was a kid the librarian in our town used to grimace when she saw the Ottmers family coming. None of us were content to check out one or two books, we each loaded up and then passed them around. My poor mother paid for more than her fair share of books that were “lost” (or maybe hidden so we wouldn’t have to give them back. I have always secretly envied librarians being surrounded by books, books, books all day every day, but I know I’d get fired if I tried to work there for reading on the job. To me, libraries are the lifeblood of a small town and deserve our constant support and attention.
We love our library. This is great of you!
What would we do without libraries? I love them, need them, want them for every kid and adult in America.
I’d also like to have the Paris Pan bookplates.
Twice a week to the library and once every three months to the salon.
I love our library! Lookin’ forward to my book plates.
I heart libraries!
Libraries are lifesavers.
I actually am a librarian–and we all thank you, especially these days.
Yay libraries!
If I couldn’t be a writer, I would be a librarian! Libraries are my home away from home!
Take me to the library!
Go Cynthea!
Libraries rock! Now if only my town had access to one. The boneheads who live here will not approve money in our budget. So the neighboring cities who have libraries won’t let us use them. It’s totally unfair! So those of you who have them appreciate them.
I LOVE MY LIBRARY. HUGS.
Cynthea, Snoop, and libraries rock!
GO LIBRARIES! thx, Cynthea
I love to read and I love libraries.
Wow, what a great idea! Thanks Cynthea for supporting libraries….one of my favorite places to be!
Here’s a special shout out the the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Public Library, who lost their building and most of their collection in the June floods. Good luck as you begin your comeback!
Everyone should know a library
I love libraries!
Show me the money!!! Libraries rock!
“Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!”
Snoop-
You had me at hello!
Cynthea, you and Snoop rock! SHOW ME THE MONEY!!
I practically grew up in my local library, which was one street over from where I lived
I would have been there 24/7 if my parents had allowed it. I was a book nut as a child, and am still hooked on books.
Libraries are an author’s best friend!!
Wahoo for libraries!
Oh, man, I used to check out so many books from the library each week that I could hardly carry the stack by myself. My parents were concerned.
I barely graduated from high school because I read so much! I was at the library practically every weekend. Even though I hit up bookstores now more than libraries, I’m still grateful they were able to feed my addiction way back when.
My girls and I love our libraries. Our favorite is Quartz Hill Library which has a super-duper kids’ area. We go every week and my 5 year old and almost 2 1/2 year old girls love to be called “bookworms.” LIBRARIES ROCK!
Cynthea, Snoop and Librarians ROCK!
I’m lucky to live in a city that has the Number 1 library system in the country. I always wanted a library similar to the one in the movie, Beauty and the Beast.
Libraries are great…and so is your generosity, Cynthea!
I never left the library without a paper grocery bag full of books! A big WOO HOO for Libraries!
This is a wonderful thing you are doing. Kudos to you.
When I was a kid, I didn’t realize that real people (not libraries) could actually buy books. We went to the library every weekend. Thanks, libraries and librarians.
To libraries!
Yay, libraries! Great mission, Cynthea!
Wow! Cynthea, you’re a gem. What a great way to give back to libraries.
My favorite aunt is a librarian. I’ve loved libraries ever since.
Yay Cynthea! Thanks so much for doing this!
Libraries shelter all of our treasured worlds. Thank you kindly for doing this, Cynthea. Your heart is in the right place!
I’m a library fanatic, and I’m training my kids to be too. Go libraries and librarians!
p.s. I live in a city that has a librarian so famous they’ve made an action figure based on her.
Hop skippin’ mad for libraries!!!!!!
This teen librarian thanks you.
This is so fun! Show me the money Cynthea!
We love the library! Show them the money Cynthea
Shout out to the three libraries I frequent, Riverside School, Harry Bennett, and Perrot. Cynthea, SHOW ME THE MONEY!!! and I would love a bookplate too
Already got my bookplates from the launch party!
Thanks for joining: here’s to hitting your caps!
Love my library! Couldn’t get by without it.
It’s been fun, joining in these today!
I love libraries! I like to “check out” (pun intended) branches in different cities.
I love libraries so much, I grew up to be a librarian!:) This is the greatest career and I don’t know why I never thought about it as a kid. I played library as a kid and would check out books to my dolls. I lived at the library when I was younger and I love being that person now who helps readers find the perfect book. This challenge is such a great idea. I hope you get TONS of comments!:)
Good luck, Cynthea. You rock.
Best of luck getting 1,000 comments! You rock, girl!
Show me the money! XD Libraries are awesome — it’s great that you’re doing this. =)
~Remula
I love libraries!
For me, the library was the only place to get Seventeen magazine, and all the goodness it contained.
Plus, lots of science fiction. I didn’t read to a stereotype then and I don’t now—that’s one thing libraries are great about, providing everything, not just a narrow selection. Yay! for showing them the money to buy even more choices.
I’m participating in the challenge too, if you want to drop by.
I didn’t spend much time in the library, but neither did Verona. Money on the other hand is a different “story”. Go librarians!
Shake your tailfeather!
Show me the bunny!
Ah how I envy everyone who had a library worth going to as a child. The best library around was the county branch and my mom hated trucking me out there more then once a month ::dramatic sigh::
support support support!!
I thank you on behalf of librarians everywhere!
Snoop would like a library named after him. Meanwhile, show me the money! Thanks for participating in the challenge.
Show me the money! This is such a great thing that all of you bloggers are doing! Don’t forget about rare book libraries and museums too, though they need cash more than books….
And oh, I would love a copy of Paris Pan!! Have a wonderful spring.
Wow–moolah for the library and bookplates? Thanks, Cynthea!
Do the Bunny Hop to the library, Snoop! (See, I didn’t forget you.)
Show me the moolah, Cynthea!!!