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sducharme's review
4.0
Everyone is deathly afraid of the school librarian - she's so evil, no one wants to go to the library. Creepy, mean, and ugly as sin, Mrs. Beamster is a character we're not likely to forget.
nssutton's review
4.0
chock full of librarian humor. can't wait to see how this goes over for the kindergarten visits.
nerdybookworm23's review
1.0
I've been reading a ton of picture books for library school. I'm taking a children's literature and resources class this semester, and I'm putting together a list of the top 20 children's books about going to the library. This book did not make the list. I hated this book. Mike Thaler spent 75% of this book making libraries sound like torture chambers, and then tried to make up for all of it with six measly pages of happy fluff that "Golly gee, the library is great after all!" What an eyeroll...
amdame1's review
3.0
An elementary student has heard horror stories about the librarian at their school and the terrible things that she does to students and to books (gasp!)
I've always wanted to read one of the Black Lagoon books. Now I have. My life has not been changed in any meaningful way. I suppose I can see the appeal of reading a few from the series but not more than that because how different can they be? and yet there are many! (Says the person who read ALL the Nancy Drew books she could get her hands on, so maybe I shouldn't throw stones, cast aspersions...
I've always wanted to read one of the Black Lagoon books. Now I have. My life has not been changed in any meaningful way. I suppose I can see the appeal of reading a few from the series but not more than that because how different can they be? and yet there are many! (Says the person who read ALL the Nancy Drew books she could get her hands on, so maybe I shouldn't throw stones, cast aspersions...
bookishnerd23's review
1.0
I've been reading a ton of picture books for library school. I'm taking a children's literature and resources class this semester, and I'm putting together a list of the top 20 children's books about going to the library. This book did not make the list. I hated this book. Mike Thaler spent 75% of this book making libraries sound like torture chambers, and then tried to make up for all of it with six measly pages of happy fluff that "Golly gee, the library is great after all!" What an eyeroll...
ericarobyn's review
5.0
These books were another staple from my childhood! I remember really loving the silliness of these tales as a kid. Granted, I read these in a time where our principal would threaten to, "string you up by your toes and hang you from the basketball hoops" if we were misbehaving, so my sense of what was okay to joke about and what was not may have already been a little skewed.
I think the tales would be a fun read for a kid that may be a little nervous about their first day as it would help them see that there isn't anything to worry about.
In this tale, the main character and his class are headed to visit the library, but they've heard some scary things and they're nervous. But when they get to the library, the learn that it is a pretty great place!
This tale was the cutest one out of the bunch!
I think the tales would be a fun read for a kid that may be a little nervous about their first day as it would help them see that there isn't anything to worry about.
In this tale, the main character and his class are headed to visit the library, but they've heard some scary things and they're nervous. But when they get to the library, the learn that it is a pretty great place!
This tale was the cutest one out of the bunch!
nkmeyers's review
4.0
The L I B R A R Y . . . SCARY . . . SCARY . . . SCARY . . . indeed!
Anything could be in there!
Anything could get you!
You could read something scary, see something scary, meet someone scary.
Why would A N Y O N E go there?!
Read:
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And find out!
(unless the library monsters get you first!)
Anything could be in there!
Anything could get you!
You could read something scary, see something scary, meet someone scary.
Why would A N Y O N E go there?!
Read:
[bc:The Librarian from the Black Lagoon|111002|The Librarian from the Black Lagoon (Black Lagoon, #5)|Mike Thaler|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645477s/111002.jpg|106925]
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And find out!
(unless the library monsters get you first!)
ms_johnson11's review
5.0
I love the Black Lagoon series. As a librarian, this one is naturally my favorite. I love breaking the mean librarian stereotype. My kids think this series is really cute and I enjoy reading them to students as well as encouraging them to check these books out.
canadianbookworm's review
3.0
This Scholastic title is another classic. A child's class is going to the library and he says that they've been told lots of scary stories about the library, the librarian and her authoritarian rules. The pictures of these are very amusing. When they actually go to the library they find they are welcomed, they can touch the books to their heart's content, and the librarian is friendly and helpful. It even ends with a knock-knock joke, which should appeal to most kids.
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