Oh, summer reading. The Youth Services Librarian's Super Bowl. The most fun, stressful, exciting, exhausting, exhilarating time of year!How best can one describe these several weeks full of programs, parties, helping reluctant readers, giving out prizes, and everything else that summer entails? Let's do it by the books.
when you're planning months in advance
when you're thinking about how awesome the summer will be
when the kickoff is going to start soon but nobody has shown up yet
when the same child has been on the computer for six hours straight
when small people stop to say "thank you" on the way out
When you can squeeze in time for a cup of tea
when you have 4 people in line, 3 kids waiting for prizes, the phone is ringing, and a program starts in 15 minutes
when kids recognize you from school visits
when nobody has any idea who colored on the carpet and left lollipop sticks on the shelves
when a kid comes to the library and cries there's nobody there at all
when you have three programs back to back
when someone wants that book about squirrels with the blue cover
and when you figure it out
when everyone loves your program and even the chairs get pushed in afterwards
when fifteen kids each pick a whistle out of the prize box
when a little one shows you a picture they drew and they're so proud they could burst
when you're so tired by the end of the week that you're wearing two different shoes by accident
when you get interrupted on your lunch break for the fifth time because someone needs a prize
Looking back on everything
but overall...
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