{"id":264,"date":"2008-09-25T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-09-25T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:05:30","slug":"no-better-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/no-better-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"No better feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five minutes before closing yesterday, a young man (4th grade) came up to me and asked, “Do you have any recommendations for me for realistic fiction that’s not depressing?\u00c2\u00a0 I really liked the last book you recommended to me, The Golly-Whopper Games <\/em>[by Jody Feldman].”<\/p>\n

I pulled the first Phineas MacGuire book for him, Phineas L. MacGuire Erupts!: The First Experiment <\/em>by Frances O’Roark Dowell, told him that another boy his age had loved it, and sent him on his way.<\/p>\n

And then this afternoon he came bouncing up to my desk, “You know that book you got for me?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m almost done with it – can you get me the next book in the series?”\u00c2\u00a0 And luckily we had the next two books on the shelf, and I sent him home with both.<\/p>\n

Less than 24 hours, with a school day in the middle of those 24 hours, and he’s already almost finished the book and is ready for more.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s incredibly\u00c2\u00a0satisfying to me, the children’s librarian: I managed to put the right book in this child’s hand at the right time.\u00c2\u00a0 Really, truly, there’s no better feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five minutes before closing yesterday, a young man (4th grade) came up to me and asked, “Do you have any recommendations for me for realistic fiction that’s not depressing?\u00c2\u00a0 I really liked the last book you recommended to me, The Golly-Whopper Games [by Jody Feldman].” I pulled the first Phineas MacGuire book for him, Phineas … Continue reading No better feeling<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-childrens-literature","category-librarianship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}