Hi Jeff, I think you should tell Joe that 10,000 plus of your closets
friends agree
with the title Joe would select...we'd all call him 'The Coolest Guy in
the World' too!
P.S. get him to write a list of books that boys will read, tell him that
list is always
popular on LM_Net!
Pam
Pam Berberich Library Media Technician
Anza Elementary School K-5
El Cajon, CA
berberichp@cajonvalley.net
pberberich@cox.net
Hastings, Jeff wrote:
> I always enjoy chatting with Joseph R***, the student just voted
> "Biggest Bookworm" in our school's eigth-grade mock elections.
> Naturally, I see him quite often.
>
> Being such an enthusiastic reader, he's also sensitive to nuances of
> language and we wound up joking about how we both have always hated the
> term "bookworm." We both agreed that it'd be hard to think of another
> supposedly positive label that had such slimy, larval, parasitic and
> generally pejorative associations. The way we see it, if a human being
> wants to compliment another human being by associating them with a
> different species in the animal kingdom, he should at least choose from
> among vertebrates. There are plenty of them, after all.
>
> Joe has a good sense of humor about being named after an imaginary,
> bespectacled nematode,* though. When I asked him if he could think of a
> non-creepy label that might be more suitable for recognizing an avid
> reader, he just grinned and said "I kind of like the title coolest guy
> in the world."
>
> Jeffrey Hastings
> School librarian,
> Highlander Way Middle School,
> Howell, Michigan
>
> hastingj AT howellschools DOT COM
>
> *Actually, you can't classify bookworms. Natural science knows no such
> thing as a bookworm, 'cause it does not exist. Instead the name is a
> generalization for any creepy-crawly that might munch on a book now and
> then, such as silverfish or the larvae of the furniture beetle. Yummy.
>
>
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