about being a librarian is that you get to talk to people about books sometimes.
And sometimes those people are only 4 years old and cute and curious and not shy at all.
Today I had a delightful conversation with a 4 year old girl in a really sweet pink jumper with fluffy cuffs and sparkly sequins on the front-- we talked about the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. It's a fabulous book if you haven't come across it-- a picture book with holes in the pages where the aforementioned caterpillar has eaten through all the various different kinds of foods. She was really cute.
Speaking of having conversations with youngsters-- it reminds me that I've been meaning to blog about the children who live in the house over the road. They have a wonderful habit (not!) of standing on the windowledge (on the inside) and opening the top window in the living room and dangling their arms out the windows (I'll try and capture them doing it sometime and post the picture!) and shouting out at anyone who passes or stands outside their house.
The funniest thing is when they shoo the cat from next door out of their garden-- it's really hilarious to hear them calling out "shooo!" and seeing the cat looking around trying to figure out where the voices are coming from and then giving up and running out of the garden because of the "ghosts".