When I Went to the Library
Subtitle: Writers Celebrate Books and Reading
Contributors: Debora Pearson (Editor); Michele Landsberg (Introduction)
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: August 26, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780888995131
Subjects: Libraries; Juvenile fiction; Children's stories; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Short Stories; Language Arts - General; Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories; Books and reading
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.