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Making Masks
Masks and How to Make Them Slade 1964 Submitter: ‘Mask-making is a fascinating and inexpensive hobby’ states the blurb. Maybe so, but should it necessarily be promoted by such a disturbing cover? Believe it or not, these are children sporting their home made paper mache ‘Big Heads’. The writing is beautifully…
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Young America Cooks
Young America’s Cook Book A Cook Book for Boys and Girls Who Like Good Food Home Institute of the New York Herald Tribune, ed. 1948 We love cookbooks at ALB. The older ones are really wonderful glimpses into the past. That said, my public library is not the place for…
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So Many Me’s
So Many Me’s Neasi 2003 Submitter: Apostrophes don’t make plurals. (Apostrophe’s don’t make plural’s?) Perhaps the scariest part is that not only did this get published, we’ve had 2 copies in our Early Reader collection for 12 years! Yikes. Holly: One of my pet peeves is definitely the apostrophe/plural thing!…
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Bums! NSFW!
A Woman Looks at Men’s Bums Jenkins 1983 Submitter: Found this gem in our university library and had to share. It’s a book of photographs of, well, the title is fairly self-explanatory really! It’s from 1983 (which surprised me, from the looks of it I’d have said 1970s). It hasn’t…
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Geography for the kids
Earthsearch : A Kids’ Geography Museum in a Book Cassidy 1994 Submitter: This book is a fun hands on exploration of the earth’s geography. The book has been well used and loved based on its current state. There are several things that make this an awful library book. The first…
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Weeding: It Ain’t Easy
I love to weed. Love it. That’s no surprise to anyone. Here’s the thing, though: it’s not about the weeding itself. It’s about what you create when you weed. I really love a shiny, clean, up-to-date collection where you know that everything you pull off the shelf is relevant. I…
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