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Friday Fiction – Silver Spurs

December 21, 2012 Holly For the Kids, Holiday Collection 10 comments

Knigge Silver Spurs 1973 Submitter: I am a public children’s librarian and started at this library in January. Before I started, this library never weeded ever. I thought I had gone through the whole collection until the holiday books came out.

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Good Things for Mothers Day - cover

Good Things for Mother’s Day

May 13, 2012 Holly Holiday Collection, Home and Garden 12 comments

Good Things for Mother’s Day Casey 1952 Submitter: Yes, 1952 & it’s still on the shelves in 2012. My friend said that a senior librarian told her this hadn’t been weeded long ago because “there’s nothing to replace it.” Thank god

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Halloween Fun

November 2, 2010 Holly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies, Holiday Collection Comments Off on Halloween Fun

Holly: So sorry this didn’t make it up in time for Halloween 2010!  Here are some fab ideas for next year, though. Carving Jack O Lanterns Gendusa 1989 Submitter: The first book, Carving Jack-O’-Lanterns by Sam Gendusa was published in

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Clowns in the New Year?

November 16, 2009 Holly For the Kids, Holiday Collection Comments Off on Clowns in the New Year?

Holidays and Festivals: New Year Blackwood 1987 Anonymous Submitter: “Every single picture in this book is better than the cover picture. Worse yet, there is no mention of clown skiing anywhere in the text.  Everyone at work let out a

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