Manor Ink November 2019

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Did you know that November is National
Picture Book Month? Early reading
has been shown to have all kinds of benefits
for young children, including a better
vocabulary and having
a greater general knowledge,
but it also starts kids
on a lifelong hobby. We
have many new picture
books for young readers,
so come take a look!
Have you seen the
NEWS
You oughta be into pictures!
Henry Barish
artwork in some of these picture books?
While the illustrations do help children
follow the story more easily, some of our
new titles have the most detailed drawings
I have seen lately. And in an age when
nearly everything is digital, touching the
pages in a book can be a pleasing experience
for young people.
Picture books come in all shapes and
sizes, and are about everything and
anything. Some topics covered in these
new books include the library, teachers
and substitutes, parents and
LIBRARY
NOTES
grandparents, elephants,
mermaids, holidays, learning
to share, and even burping!
We recently added to our collection new
picture stories by Mo Willems, Eric Carle,
Timothy Young, Donald Hall, as well as
one influenced by Dr. Seuss. And more are
on the way.
The Livingston Manor Free Library also
PIGEONS & ELEPHANTS Picture books by
popular author Mo Willems are among those
in the LMFL’s new collection. Provided photo
NOVEMBER EVENTS
Tuesdays Story Time, 11:15 a.m.
Nov. 11 Closed, Veterans Day
Nov. 20 Book Club, 9:30 a.m.
Nov. 25 GED class, 10 a.m.
Nov. 29 Black Friday Book Sale
Nov. 30 Small Library Saturday
offers a weekly Story Time on Tuesdays at
11:15 a.m., where picture books are read to
preschoolers. Parents, siblings and caretakers
are also welcome. Plus we are now
offering a craft afterwards. Please join us
to celebrate National Picture Book Month
and come see our newly redesigned children’s
room – and don’t forget to check
out what picture books we have to offer.
Henry Barish is acting director of the
Livingston Manor Free Library. For more
information, visit livingstonmanorlibrary.org.
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LIBRARY BOOK CLUB REVIEW
Beloved
By Toni Morrison
SET IN POST-CIVIL War
Ohio, Beloved, Toni
Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize
winning novel, is challenging
reading. Moving
between present
and past, reality and mystical realism,
Beloved is the story of the former slave
Sethe. Crippled by years of physical and
psychological brutality, Sethe carries
both kinds of scars.
Morrison came across the story “A
Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed her
Child” in an 1856 newspaper article, reproduced
in a magazine called the American
Baptiste. This real-life account of a
former slave killing her infant daughter
to keep her from facing a life of slavery
prompted the writing of Beloved.
This is the brutal story of Sethe, her
mother, her daughter Denver, and the
unnamed dead baby whose tombstone
reads only “Beloved.” Though technically
no longer a slave, Sethe is still not
free. The memories of Sweet Home, the
plantation on which she was enslaved,
haunt her. There are nice memories
of other slaves and the beauty of the
place. But ever present are the painful
memories of horrible things that happened
there, memories that haunt her.
So does the ghost of the nameless baby
who haunts her new home.
Is Beloved a ghost story? A crime
story? A brutal expose of the horrors
of slavery in America? Beloved is all
of these things, and not for anyone
looking for an easy or pleasant read.
Many have called it a work of genius, a
“towering literary experience.” Others
find it confusing and difficult to wade
through. However one finds it, it is
doubtless an important contribution to
American literature, for the discussion
of the legacy of slavery still is taking
place in the country today.
Marge Feuerstein
The LMFL Book Club meets the third
Tuesday of each month. For information
on joining, please contact the library at
439-5440.
SCARRED
BY MEMORY
Living with
the aftermath
of slavery
are, from left,
Kimberly Elise,
Oprah Winfrey
and Thandie
Newton, in a
scene from the
film version of
Beloved.
letterboxd.com
photo