“I wouldn’t have been a reader or a writer, or even a civilized human being, if it hadn’t been for libraries.”—Laurie Halse Anderson
Check out these authors’ all-time favorites, very first reading memories, books that made them cry and changed them forever and more—and all because they discovered them at the local library. From The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, to Charlotte’s Web, Pippi Longstocking and so many more, this video will leave you smiling and thinking of your own childhood favorites.
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