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Lost & Found
Most young children have one: it is often a blanket, a little pillow or a stuffed animal. There are a number of terms for these treasured friends: comfort object, transitional object, security object, security blanket and blankie are the most common, even when it isn’t a blanket.
Charles M. Schulz’s Linus van Pelt in the popular Peanuts comic strip, Kevin Henkes’ Owen in a book of the same name, Marc Brown’s D.W. in the Arthur series and Paulette Bourgeois’ Franklin from Franklin’s Blanket are popular characters who love and carry security blankets. Mo Willems wrote two charming picture books about the mayhem that ensues when a little girl loses her “knuffle bunny” in Knuffle Bunny, A Cautionary Tale and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity.
When a “security blanket” is lost, the family, often frantic, will spend a serious amount of time trying to find it. Not so with everyday items such as coats, sweaters, hats, boots, shoes, toys and school supplies. Every three to four months, a librarian from the Children’s Department has to remove items from the “Lost & Found” bin that have been left in the library for longer than four months. The same happens in the Circulation Department. If possible, library staff will attempt to identify and contact the owner of an item. Since that isn't always possible, if you think you have lost something in the library, give us a call, we would be happy to help you try to find it.
More picture books about security objects:
The Blanket That Had To Go by Nancy Evans Cooney
The Blanket by John Burningham
Caillou : Where is Teddy? by Joceline Sanschagrin
I Lost My Bear by Jules Feiffer
La La Rose by Satomi Ichikawa
Love, Your Bear, Pete by Dyan Sheldon
Night-night, Emily! by Claire Freedman
Brother by Kathy Mallat
Olivia-- and the Missing Toy by Ian Falconer
Pippo Gets Lost by Helen Oxenbury
Plaidypus Lost by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel
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