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Jack & the Beanstalk
There are many kings, queens, princes and princesses in fairy tales, but who is the most famous common man or boy? It is Jack, as in Jack & the Beanstalk or Jack the Giant Killer. Joseph Jacobs wrote the first English version of this oral tale as one of the stories in his book, English Fairy Tales (1890). The “Jack tales” go back hundreds of years in
The character, Jack, is always lucky and sometimes clever. He is a trickster with a good heart. He is sometimes a reluctant hero, but he always wins the prize. In the Grimm’s version, “Hans in Luck”, he is naïve and easily tricked. Hans wins in the end because he is easily satisfied. He personifies the idea that if you change your attitude, you can find happiness, even if your circumstances remain unchanged. In most other versions of the “Jack stories”, the plot is more satisfying. Jack is poor; he leaves home and through luck or pluck he improves his lot in life. A few of these stories are: Lazy Jack (British), Jack and the Fire Dragon (Cornish), Jack and the Animals (Appalachian), Jack & King Marock,
The Florentine Opera will perform the children's Opera,
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It's nice to see Tosa focusing on the little kids, but where is the attention to teen services?
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Eliiebean - Mar 05, 2010 4:46 PM - Report Abuse
Tosa's library is the only library in the county without some sort of dedicated young adult fiction area--why are you ignoring a part of the population you're supposed to serve? the "YA" section at Tosa is classic fiction used in schools, not the young adult fiction that is widely popular and well read by teenagers.
And yes, teenagers still read. Just look at the popularity of series like Twilight and the Percy Jackson books. The children's area stops at "middle school" (which, looking at Tosa's middle school collection means 4th through 6th grade) and skips all the way to adult without any consideration for the 13-18 year olds who want to read fiction about their peers.
Nevermind the ridiculous idea of putting manga in the adult fiction section, shelved by AUTHOR. From a user standpoint, I'd never be able to find a series if I didn't know the author, or find a series I've never read just by browsing. Other libraries have a graphic novel section dedicated to items like these and Marvel/DC bound comics. Why is Tosa yet again lagging behind?
In comparable size, West Allis has a far superior library that actually encourages teens to visit, instead of hiring another security guard to chase them out. I live much closer to the Tosa library, but I go to West Allis now because I don't feel like a criminal walking in and getting the evil eye from the staff because I look under 18.
Maybe someone on your staff should take a class or two on young adult services in libraries and wake up to the fact that by ignoring teens and making the library an unwelcome place, you're destroying any support from kids who will one day pay taxes and remember how the library didn't want them. The American Library Association has a whole division dedicated to young adult services--maybe that's a clue that teens aren't going away anytime soon.
-A frustrated library lover