The Importance of Books or “Some things should happen on soft pages.”
I came across a link to this letter from Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, in a newsletter. This library newsletter has proved to have some interesting finds and I have commented or linked to them several times on this blog. This letter from Lee to Oprah Winfrey speaks volumes about the importance of books not just the words on the page but the actual physical book – cover, spine, dust jacket, and pages – and I have mentioned this before. To further note, if you have not read some of the old childhood favorites noted by Lee in this letter, then you should. The Bobbsey Twins are a must – even if you are now in your 40s. And what would a girl do without Trixie Belden, girl sleuth? She was sort of the precursor to Nancy Drew – a younger girl who got herself into some fixes. (Images of Trixie and the younger Bobbsey twins above – there are two sets of Bobbsey twins!) Ah, those were the days and I consider myself not only privileged to have read them, but to have held those old books in my hands, curled up on a rainy summer day … And to STILL have those books!
Read Harper Lee’s letter and consider what she has to say.
JNLF
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