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Take a look at these lesser-known WPA posters from the Library of Congress collection. They are focused on teaching kids how to use – and how not to use – a print book.
Just thinking back to when I had a kid's library card. (We're talking a while back and in the UK.) You were only allowed to take six books out at a time on a kid's card, for a max of three weeks.
With an adult library card you were allowed to take out TWELVE.
I was so excited when I got an adult card. I can’t remember how old but I must have been a teenager? And my mum was like, 'Great, that's six for you and six for your little sister.'
Oh the unfairness. Right? Except I got to help my sister pick them out and be responsible for them, because they were on my card. And really, we went to the library pretty much every week at that point and I had homework. I wasn't gonna be able to read twelve books a week. (Although I think, in hindsight, my mum thought I would bloody well try and I suspect she was not wrong lol.) I just had DREAMS, you know, about what being an adult meant.
„Why do you read so much historic stuff? Why don’t you read more modern realistic books?“
I can not open social media without seeing people being killed in a war, starving, suffering from homophobia or racism. Also I listen to the radio every day. That’s enough realism.
Reading two regency people romancing each other and having a Happy End is actually really healing during these dark times