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Go to the LibraryNew Book Topic*“Let's Go to the Library,” a recently published book for children, is being featured by the Scarsdale Public Library during National Book Week, Nov. 17 thru 23.Editor iviarK K. Harmon and illustrator Vee Guthrie are both Scarsdale residents. Their interest and that of Naomi Buchheimer,the author, was to create a bookthat would be fun for boys and guls to read and one that would show graphically the variety of adventures and pleasures to be found in a library.All the minute details involved in library service were carefully cheeked, and should the illustrations seem familiar to Scarsdale Library users, there is a reason. Miss Guthrie made numerous visits to die Scarsdale Library using it as a model for many of her sketches. Other libraries portrayed are White Plains and ML Vernon, Baldwin, LJ., and the Vleigh Branc h of the Queensborough Public- Library. The Scarsdale Library’s specially designed children's furniture and circulation desk for chec king hooks are readily recognized in the pages of the book.Miss Guthrie, a graduate of Middlcbiuy College, Middlebury, Vt.t studied further at the* Art Students League. NYC, and at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. In addition to Let'sl\ Go to the Library she has ilius- * tinted Let's take a trip to a Fire £ House,' another children’s book in this series, as well as holiday cook books for the Peter Pauper Press. Her other children's books includeFreddy11 and Benjamin Lucky by Miriam F. Mason; Aesop with a Smile ' for Child Life; and Poems by Elizabeth Coatsworth, Currently she is at work on book illustrations for publishers in New York and Boston.'Die publishers of Let’s Go to the Library, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, have loaned the original sketches and the three dummies used in the production ol Let’s Go to the Library. These will be on display in the Children's Room until Dee. 7.
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Scarsdale Inquirer
Scarsdale, New York, US
Fri, Nov 22, 1957
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