...Who can jump like a kangaroo?
Who can squawk like a cockatoo?...
Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue that's who,
Miss Prue Theroux, the school librarian.
It may all sound trivial, absurd and at the same time, mundane, but upon reading the whole book, I think I got the message that it wanted to convey: That Librarians, although they do not possess super powers, are extra cool because they tend to know almost everything [well, at least, their collection] and know the appropriate users of these knowledge. And that's Miss Prue, your cool school librarian.
The only drawback, I think, is how the book depicted Miss Prue. In spite the know-it-all attitude as evidently seen in this line:
When you don't know what to do,
When you haven't got a clue,
Go and talk to Miss Theroux.
When you haven't got a clue,
Go and talk to Miss Theroux.
Sadly, Miss Prue still remained as an old-fashioned librarian. She's still an old maiden [I assume] wearing glasses covered in a bunch of overcoats. I guess it would have been more cool if she was wearing a more modern attire like a corporate-looking attire or she could have been depicted as a hot chick or a hot dude [which I would have preferred more].
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| Barbie as a sexy librarian |
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| I would have preferred Conan the Librarian, though |
Yet all in all, I'd say that the book is a good read because it shows what we, librarians do. Although it deals mostly on the "Reference" aspect of a librarian's job, it somehow highlights our role in schools, especially as advocates for the love of reading. After all, it is what we do that defines us. Right?
**Prue Theroux: the cool librarian is written by Gillian Rubinstein and illustrated by David Mackintosh
/dmarco
July 4, 2013 at 8:42 PM
Actually, I don't agree on the "old maiden" point. A business attire invokes the feeling of a sterile gray office for me, while this depiction is more cosy - just like the librarians I remember. Overcoats rule! Even though it's usually a perfect temperature in the library...
Of course, I've never seen a male librarian, so can't say anything about Conan the Librarian part :)