“Every child needs a safe place to fall – a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment.”

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I’ve seen it happen. It happened to me.