"Bringing young people and books together is daunting. It is risky. It is constantly changing. It may not require a Ph.D., but it certainly requires patience, because you will need to sift through 50 mediocre works before you find the one that is worthy of a child. It requires an ability to embrace the downright geeky, nonsensical, absurd and immature (adults, this is not a bad thing!). To forge a lifelong relationship between our younger generations and literature requires the efforts of parents, educators, librarians, publishers, booksellers and every other generation in the community who has even once known that dangerous and exciting leap towards something different."
--Katie Capaldi, new owner of Between the Covers, Harbor Springs, Mich., in a wonderful essay published in Harbor Light News.
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