Author: Holly
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Do the Jitterbug
How to Jitterbug Javna 1984 Submitter: It totally doesn’t belong in the children’s library collection anymore, but it’s more AWESOME Library Book than Awful (actually, one of my coworkers took it home for her own collection as soon as I showed it to her). FREE RECORD TOO! LOOK! IT WAS…
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Spinsters Abroad
Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers Birkett 1989, this edition 1991 Submitter: I’m at the beginning of a massive weeding project at my public library and found this gem in the early 900s. While the topic is one that is appropriate for our collection, the title and cover are major detractors. In…
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Is That a Rocket in Your Pocket?
A Rocket in my Pocket: The Rhymes and Chants of Young America Withers and Suba 1948 Ooooh, fun! This looks like something every 12-year-old will be clamoring for! Except…they won’t. This submission comes to us from a middle school library. Yes, middle school. It’s old and dirty, and had to be meant…
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Well La-Di-Da
A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life Aarons 1975? Submitter: This relic was one of many taking up space on our small, rural high school library shelves. When we found it, I thought, “What the heck are we saying to our kids with this?” All about American…
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Hanimations
Hanimations Mariotti 1988 Submitter: The purpose of the book isn’t exactly clear. It doesn’t explain how to create Hanimations for yourself. It’s not a story about these creatures. It’s just…pictures of this guy’s painted hands? And in some pictures, an unusual amount of arm hair. More arm hair than is typically…
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Men, Dogs, and Knitting
“Men Who Knit & the Dogs Who Love Them: 30 Great-Great Looking Designs for Man & His Best Friend” Modessit and Emborsky 2007 Submitter: This book appeals to a worldwide audience of maybe five people: namely dudes who are into knitting matching man/dog Rasta hats. Thankfully there are tons of full-page…
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