“The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library”

“The Candy Man can”

“as a child
i suppose
i was not quite
normal.


my happiest times were
when
i was left alone in
the house on a
saturday.”

“Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. … An investment in libraries is an investment in our children's future.”

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”

“Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.”

“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”

“The best place to find things: the public library.”

“Even the most insensitive hit song enthusiast cannot always escape the feeling that the child with a sweet tooth comes to know in the candy store.”

“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”