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[Florence Mcelligott <Fmce@aol.com>]

I think I predate most of you since I was born in 1938. My sister and I spent
some summers with an aunt in the country and her meager library had "Maida's
little house" , store, etc. A little crippled rich girl who became friends
with the neighbor children and had marvelous adventures and of course became
strong through their efforts.
I wanted adventure and read mostly books with boy main characters - no girls
with excitement then except Nancy Drew and even she was not as exciting as
the Hardy boys. But for adventure you could not beat Howard Pease and
Armstrong Sperry. And I read all the James Fenimore Cooper books.
I don't think I really was exposed to the real classics till I discovered
Children's Literature as my first course in Library Science after I switched
to it from a Math minor.
Calculus is why I became a librarian! (but with a name like mine I guess it
was inevitable)
Flit McElligott, media
Rosendale Elementary
Niskayuna NY
fmce@aol.com

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