Ahhhh...we love books so much!

I think my favorite part of elementary school was ordering books from Scholastic. I saved my pennies…my dollars to buy books. The order form was just on paper, and we had to pay before we got the books. I always felt sorry for the kids who couldn’t get any books. When I was in third grade, my teacher, Miss Pribble, made sure everyone got a book on the order. Of course, she paid for it herself. There was go GoFundMe for books or anything for that matter.

The orders usually arrived on Friday noon while we were at recess. Maybe they arrived earlier, and our teachers hid them til Friday knowing all we would do was to read those books. No other work could possibly happen with shiny new books.

When we came in from recess, those books were stacked up neatly on our desks. The Halloween books were my favorite! Halloween was my favorite holiday even then! I remember those shiny books waiting for me after a recess of swinging the rope under the cool Autumn skies. I do not remember most of the book titles. I am sure, over time, most of the books were so worn out that they were tossed out. One book has remained in my possession all these years, and even though it is so worn out, it is my favorite. I read it to myself if there is no one to listen to me!!

This book that I hold so dearly is “Georgie’s Halloween” written by Robert Bright. It is a small book featuring little Georgie, a ghost, who haunts an old Victorian house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker. Of course, as a kid, I didn’t pay any attention to the author. Now I want to know all about authors! Bright was a Princeton University scholar who spent his life working on newspapers all over the world including Baltimore and Paris. He is not known for his newspaper work, no, he is known for his twenty books on little Georgie. I do not remember reading any other book than the one I mentioned, but I want to say books can influence us so much!

I grew up in the suburbs so for me, the Whitaker’s house completely caught my attention. I loved the old house with lots of spooky rooms all decked out for Halloween. Georgie lived in the attic so that also was full of Halloween surprises.

It is funny to remember books I had as a child that influenced me so much…even this little paper back book. I carried it everywhere and tried to find the perfect house for me to move into. I guess I thought I could move into an old house at the age of ten!

My house is full of books so much that I gather books from other sources to put out in my little library. Once in a while, I will take one off the shelf and get ready to put it out, but I just can’t bear to part with it.

You can imagine how I feel about Book Night at Trine. So many books, so many donations. The halls of T. Furth are full of boxes of books everywhere you look. By Wednesday late afternoon these books will be prominently displayed by students all over the T. Furth building. A few years ago, I found a complete set of Shakespeare’s plays in small leather-bound books. These had been donated by Dr. Tom Tierney. I love those books, and I was so honored to take them home. (I think I got there early to find them!)

Book Night is only open for three hours on Wednesday evening. The clock will strike 4:00, and you can come in and peruse and take home as many as you can carry. By 7:00, the doors close.

As an added touch to this fun night, the doors to the auditorium will be open from 6-7 in case you want to catch a glimpse of our show coming up, “Murder on the Orient Express.” We are in big time production right now, and you are welcome to come on in and take a seat. The students were worried we might give it all away, but we will not be rehearsing the end of the show. You will need a ticket to see that!

Books are a lifeline to me, and to you. Robert Bright once wrote, “The imaginative man is fortunately never far away.” See you on Wednesday! 

I think my favorite part of elementary school was ordering books from Scholastic. I saved my pennies…my dollars to buy books. The order form was just on paper, and we had to pay before we got the books. I always felt sorry for the kids who couldn’t get any books. When I was in third grade, my teacher, Miss Pribble, made sure everyone got a book on the order. Of course, she paid for it herself. There was go GoFundMe for books or anything for that matter.

The orders usually arrived on Friday noon while we were at recess. Maybe they arrived earlier, and our teachers hid them til Friday knowing all we would do was to read those books. No other work could possibly happen with shiny new books.

When we came in from recess, those books were stacked up neatly on our desks. The Halloween books were my favorite! Halloween was my favorite holiday even then! I remember those shiny books waiting for me after a recess of swinging the rope under the cool Autumn skies. I do not remember most of the book titles. I am sure, over time, most of the books were so worn out that they were tossed out. One book has remained in my possession all these years, and even though it is so worn out, it is my favorite. I read it to myself if there is no one to listen to me!!

This book that I hold so dearly is “Georgie’s Halloween” written by Robert Bright. It is a small book featuring little Georgie, a ghost, who haunts an old Victorian house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker. Of course, as a kid, I didn’t pay any attention to the author. Now I want to know all about authors! Bright was a Princeton University scholar who spent his life working on newspapers all over the world including Baltimore and Paris. He is not known for his newspaper work, no, he is known for his twenty books on little Georgie. I do not remember reading any other book than the one I mentioned, but I want to say books can influence us so much!

I grew up in the suburbs so for me, the Whitaker’s house completely caught my attention. I loved the old house with lots of spooky rooms all decked out for Halloween. Georgie lived in the attic so that also was full of Halloween surprises.

It is funny to remember books I had as a child that influenced me so much…even this little paper back book. I carried it everywhere and tried to find the perfect house for me to move into. I guess I thought I could move into an old house at the age of ten!

My house is full of books so much that I gather books from other sources to put out in my little library. Once in a while, I will take one off the shelf and get ready to put it out, but I just can’t bear to part with it.

You can imagine how I feel about Book Night at Trine. So many books, so many donations. The halls of T. Furth are full of boxes of books everywhere you look. By Wednesday late afternoon these books will be prominently displayed by students all over the T. Furth building. A few years ago, I found a complete set of Shakespeare’s plays in small leather-bound books. These had been donated by Dr. Tom Tierney. I love those books, and I was so honored to take them home. (I think I got there early to find them!)

Book Night is only open for three hours on Wednesday evening. The clock will strike 4:00, and you can come in and peruse and take home as many as you can carry. By 7:00, the doors close.

As an added touch to this fun night, the doors to the auditorium will be open from 6-7 in case you want to catch a glimpse of our show coming up, “Murder on the Orient Express.” We are in big time production right now, and you are welcome to come on in and take a seat. The students were worried we might give it all away, but we will not be rehearsing the end of the show. You will need a ticket to see that!

Books are a lifeline to me, and to you. Robert Bright once wrote, “The imaginative man is fortunately never far away.” See you on Wednesday!