Awesome kids and awesome kids books...

[kseenaa]

Know those kids that I always complain about? Well, sometimes they are downright awesome to. :-) And funny things happen.

Every Monday a 6th grader is coming over to the library to 'work' for three hours. Help out with things, and learn stuff. They love this at the small school-library where I currently work. Some kids are more helpful then others, of course, and more talkative then others.

Well, yesterday, this Monday I had a young girl there who was really fun and very nice. She did a great job helping out to, getting it quite quickly. And in the midst of our little day, right out of the blue she asks: "Do you like Tokio Hotel?" to which I answered that yes, indeed I did and also wondered what had prompted the question? (Might add I have used my Humanoid City Tour t-shirt there, but that was a long time ago.) Well, apparently she really liked them to. So I told her I had seen there concert in Gothenburg and that they were really good live, and we had a bit of a chat about it, also at what age was appropriate to go to concerts.

So I have had fangirl discussions with a 12 year old. I am a 33 year old librarian.

Now what is wrong with this picture? *cracks up* X-D


Anyway, so BOOKS! :-D

I, together with the ever awesome Ugglefot (also a librarian) has discussed now and then the lack of books about homosexual couples in libraries... both for adults and for kids. Well! Fear no more! I have found two that I just HAVE to read, because they both sound awesome!

First the book Det händer nu (It happens now) by Sofie Nordin. It is a love story and a friendship story... Reading the summery, I can't help but be reminded about Fried Green Tomatos... :-) It is about this nice looking, really popular girl in school, Stella. You know the kind... She could have any boy she wants, but instead she harbors a secret love for her best friend, and don't know what to do about it, since she don't want to destroy there friendship. Then she gets a penpal through internet. The 85 year old Agnes, who has been married her whole life, despite being in love with another woman. The young girl and the old woman forms a friendship and encourage each other to try and reach there goals (the girl to dare to talk to her friend, and the old woman to marry her new love now when it is legal).

I haven't read this book yet, but how awesome doesn't that sound? :-D Both the libraries I work at has bought it, but.... it is actually so many kids that wants to read it, you have to put yourself in line to get it. WOOT! :-D

The other book is called Punkpapporna (Punkdads) by Liz Wennberg. This is for a bit younger kids, and sounds like a laugh, really.... It is about a couple of kids, that gets told they'll be getting a new classmate. And she has two dads. And both of them dads are punkrockers... with mohawk hairdos and tons of piercings... And the awesome thing here is, it seems like instead of focusing on the fact that the girl has two dads, the whole story is focused on the fact the dads... are punkrockers... What does punkrockers eat? How can you sleep with a mohawk? Does it hurt to get a piercing? Are punkrockers regular people or not? And all with some really cute pictures in the book to.

I haven't read this book yet either, but dammit, I gotta! It looks so damn cute all around! *laugh*

My boss / colleague called this evening tell me she was sick. She's been coughing a bit and sniffled a bit all day, so... Tonight she got a fever to. :-P I am not surprised really. That means I'll be boss of myself the rest of the week! o.O I hope I'll make do. :-P Always write a schedule on Mondays, so I should, but yeah.... That little school-library is my boss / colleagues baby, so... I suppose I'll get a verdict if I did good on Monday. ;-)

Comments

[whichclothes.livejournal.com]

I love the cover of Punkpapporna!!

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

lol the only problem with that girl's age is you probably can't talk fic LOL But it's still awesome to be able to fangirl with someone in RL. Maybe she's been searching for that: a fellow fan to fangirl with. Did you ask her who her fave guy was?

[steinsgrrl.livejournal.com]

Aw, so cute, your conversations with the young girl! Age difference, eh. Whatever. Tokio Hotel are appeal to all ages. :D

[astroflammante.livejournal.com]

I've read both books, or at least most of them. Slow day at the library, and nothing to do=looking through new books. *grins* The punk dads one is soo cute! And Det händer nu is really really good. As I said, I was just looking through this one, to get a feel for it, but I ended up reading most of it. Sad to say, it isn't all that popular with the kids here in this homophobic little backwater. Well, at least we do have it...

BTW, have you read Ibland bara måste man by David Levithan? It's about a gay teenager and his merry bunch of misfit (or not!) friends, and I liked it a lot. Mainly, I think, because it's not a coming-out-story, at least not for the main character: he's out, and completely cool with it. Kind of "this is who I am. Any problems with that are all yours." (At least, this is how I remember the book. I have found I sometimes have a very selective memory about books; the bad parts don't stick in my brain.)

[spicehobbit.livejournal.com]

That first book sounds really interesting. Gawd, like I need more books to read... *grin*

*crosses fingers for the library-boss*