Anita Prieto

Darn it all. This should have been wonderful, especially for me. But it was so frustratingly incomplete and uneven. I don't mean simply that there are only 26 letters, and so C had to be library Card and couldn't be Carnegie, but also details. It refers to Dewey 'in those days' without a date. It refers to 'even in our country.' It assumes some children won't know what the word Online means, and also that the readers will have a home computer with access to reference works. It doesn't acknowledge that the free public libraries further than NYC and Canada were also called Carnegie libraries.

My recommendation if you're curious - check it out from the library, note whatever information is new to you, research the rest of the answers.

For example, Dewey was born in 1851, and was a young man when he invented the DDC system. I'm in the process of reading a great 'Straight Dope' article about it all right now. (fyi, I prefer Straight Dope, in many ways, to Snopes. It's more fun, and I love the weekly newsletter in my inbox and the archives.) http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2238/whats-so-great-about-the-dewey-dec...… (mehr)

P is for Pelican is an alphabet book about Louisiana and is apart of a series by the Sleeping Bear Press. This book goes in order of the alphabet from A to Z and each letter is associated with something from Louisiana. Each page has a brief history of what was chosen for that letter and a poem. Being from Louisiana and reading this book, there were some letters I had never heard of. For letter I in the book they chose Islenos, which is a community of people found mainly in St. Bernard. I had never heard of Islenos before, so this book taught me a few things and I am from Louisiana. I think this book did a great job of giving just enough history and was beautifully illustrated. The students could have the opportunity to make their own alphabet book associated with Louisiana.… (mehr)