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Sep. 18th, 2009 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThe thing is that people come into the library with requests that are both oddly vague and oddly specific at the same time and expect any member of staff to be able to immediately pull a book title out of the air.
For example, today a lady came in asking for "simple books for a group of two- to six-year-olds" that she could "act out with puppets". And preferably not a fairy tale, which eliminated my first answer. But when I asked her what kind of story she was looking for, she just shrugged and said, "Oh, any good story."
It is a terribly sad thing that the only picture book Pterry has written is Where's My Cow?, which I doubt would work in this situation. If he had, he could be my default answer when someone asks for a "good book" with no other qualifications in all age brackets.
For example, today a lady came in asking for "simple books for a group of two- to six-year-olds" that she could "act out with puppets". And preferably not a fairy tale, which eliminated my first answer. But when I asked her what kind of story she was looking for, she just shrugged and said, "Oh, any good story."
It is a terribly sad thing that the only picture book Pterry has written is Where's My Cow?, which I doubt would work in this situation. If he had, he could be my default answer when someone asks for a "good book" with no other qualifications in all age brackets.
