{"id":674,"date":"2008-12-22T20:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T03:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-03-05T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:47:41","slug":"the-best-book-you-ever-got-and-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/the-best-book-you-ever-got-and-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Book You Ever Got (and the Worst?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot this week about the best books to buy my relatives (and thus procrastinating before actually having to venture out onto the bitterly cold and jam-packed city streets of New York).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve made a <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryvoice.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/22\/quicklist-best-book-gifts-for-kids-2008-edition\/\">list<\/a> of some of my favorite kids books to give as gifts.\u00a0 (Looking at books published this year, I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/isbn\/1423113357\"><em>Dinosaur vs. Bedtime<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/167491993&#038;referer=brief_results\"><em>Alvin Ho<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>It got me wondering- what was the best book you have ever received?\u00a0 (For me, it was a copy of <em>The Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians<\/em>, given to me by two sisters who were regulars at my library.\u00a0 I was leaving that branch and the girls and their mom gave me a copy as a goodbye gift.)<\/p>\n<p>Book gift-giving also makes me think of all those sad, cast-off book gifts that wind up as library donations.\u00a0 Have you ever gone through your donation pile to find a lovingly inscribed copy:\u00a0 &#8220;Dear Little Abby&#8230; \u00a0 I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did&#8230;.\u00a0 May you treasure it for always&#8230;.\u00a0 XOXO, Your Great Aunt Mildred.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 Only to wind up in the library book sale.\u00a0 Heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>So, looking back this holiday season, what were the best books you ever got?\u00a0 And perhaps more importantly, what were the worst?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot this week about the best books to buy my relatives (and thus procrastinating before actually having to venture out onto the bitterly cold and jam-packed city streets of New York).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve made a list of some of my favorite kids books to give as gifts.\u00a0 (Looking at books published this year, I&#8217;m a big fan of Dinosaur vs. Bedtime and Alvin Ho.) It got me wondering- what was the best book you have ever received?\u00a0 (For me, it was a copy of The Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians, given to me by two sisters who were regulars at my library.\u00a0 I was leaving that branch and the girls and their mom gave me a copy as a goodbye gift.) Book gift-giving also makes me think of all those sad, cast-off book gifts that wind up as library donations.\u00a0 Have you ever gone through your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[82,22,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-kiera-parrott","category-childrens-literature","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}