When I Went to the Library
Subtitle: Writers Celebrate Books and Reading
Contributors: Debora Pearson (Editor); Michele Landsberg (Introduction)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: July 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780888994233
Subjects: Libraries; General; Children's stories; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General; Short Stories; Children: Grades 2-3; School & Education; Juvenile Fiction; Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories; Books and reading; Fiction
First sentence: I ALWAYS used to skip the introductions in books, just in case they let something slip and ruined the freshness of discovery that lay waiting for me in the pages ahead-or, worse, in case their dull, stodgy flavor slopped over and spoiled the distinctive tang of the story I was about to plunge into.