It’s National Library Week (April 2-8, 2006), and Kim Winters, author of Kat’s Eye, an online journal featuring rants, raves, and musings about writing, balancing work and family, and life after the MFA, commits the Faux Pas of all Faux Pas in her post by the same name. Unfortunately, it involved a library book and RAIN.

Do you have any librarians on your blogroll? I have several who are worth a visit: Camille at Book Moot, Norma of Collecting My Thoughts, Sarah Louise at pink sneakers n’at. H2Oboro Lib Blog is, I assume, written by a librarian. Kendra at Preschoolers and Peace owns and manages her own private library. I have a soft spot for librarians because I was one once upon a time, and I’m still a librarian at heart. My library threatens to take over my home, and I like it that way.

Born April 4th:
Children’s author Glen Rounds, b. 1906. The Blind Colt and its sequels are great selections for elementary age horse lovers. Rounds wrote both fiction and nonfiction about the American West.

Poet Maya Angelou, b. 1928. Touched By An Angel

Children’s author Johanna Reiss, b. 1932. She wrote The Upstairs Room, a fictional story for children about two Dutch Jewish girls who were hidden in a secret upstairs room for three years during the Nazi occupation of Holland.