My first storytime. My first professional librarian gig.
I was nervous.
I sat on a a large alphabet patterned rug in the easy book area of my hometown library.
The same library I used as a kid. My first professional librarian gig and storytime happened to take place in my childhood library......
......back when my library card was far from plastic, and hung on a huge rolodex behind the library counter. It hung there, like an empty bucket on a ferris wheel, waiting to be thumbed up, tripled checked, verified only by my cursive signature. No barcodes or numbers, only colored cardstock.
Perfect pastel cardstock.
And I was launched up with that card. Up and around my world with Nancy Drew and Julie Andrews. And on my lucky library days, I would use a tiny golf 'n'stuff pencil to "sign out" the few chosen books and plastic jacketed record albums.
So, there I sat in my blue flowery skirt, stomach falling, with my lucky chosen first official storytime book:
Leo the Late Bloomer / By Robert Kraus. Pictures by Jose Aruego.
Empty bucket no more.
My first storytime.
My first gig.
And just like Leo .... I made it!
