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AUGUST 15, 2010

This is Dedicated...

Today's dedication was emailed to me by one of our dedicated reviewers, and library supporters, bas bleu...

Bas bleu states:

I know you are seeking worthy "dedications" to post on your website. Here's one I came across today that I really, really like:

The Charm School, by Susan Wiggs
MIRA Books, c.1999.

"To the most charming group of people I know:

LIBRARIANS.

You probably don't remember my name, but you saw me every week. I was the quiet child with the long pigtails and the insatiable appetite for Beverly Cleary, Carol Ryrie Brink and Louise Fitzhugh. I was the one you had to tap on the shoulder at closing time, because I was still sitting on a stool in the stacks, poring over Ramona's latest adventures or sniffling as I read Anne Frank's diary. I was the little girl with the huge wire basket on the front of her bike - for lugging home a stack of books that weighed more than I did. I never thought to thank you back then, but I didn't understand how very much all those hours, and all those books, and all your patience meant to me or to the writer I would become. But I understand now. So this book is dedicated to you, to all of you, in gratitude for bringing books and readers together."

Pretty cool, huh? And I'd like to add my "thank you" to Susan Wiggs'!!!

Couldn't agree more, bas bleu. This is a gem in the realm of dedications. Hope others will share any dedications they find that touch their hearts.