Re: series book purchases: a survey of school librarians

[Franziska Turrell <LM_NET@FC.MCPS.K12.MD.US>]

You asked for personal viewpoints, and this is strictly a personal
viewpoint.  I am an "undegreed" media assistant in an elementary
school.   I think it would depend on the series.  There are some series
that I thoroughly enjoyed as a child, and continue to enjoy as an
adult.  I love the Orphan Train, Little House, American Girls, Black
Stallion, Dear America, "older" Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys (not the
newer ones), and other similar series.  I do have questions about the
literary and moral value of Goosebumps, Baby-sitters Club, and some of
the CYOA series.  Some or other of these portray violence, the
supernatural, boy-girl relationships at a very tender age--I personally
do not think elementary age kids need to fill their minds with this
type of material.  I think it is not a matter of series in the library:
 but rather, the types of series and how consistenly they are checked
out by the same students to the exclusion of other materials.
Frannie T.
Lake Seneca ES
Germantown, MD
Franziska_Turrell@fc.mcps.k12.md.us,i

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