Memory Lane

Please allow me to back track to a little history about me. I grew up in rural Prince Edward Island...you know Anne of Green Gables country. Come on you TLs out there! Surely you know who that redheaded girl is! The book mobile was a highlight that my 7 siblings and I looked forward to every week during our Canadian summer holidays. Every Wednesday in July and August, we would walk the 3km to the church where the book mobile would park for a few hours. My sister who is eleven months younger than me and I would borrow the maximum number of books - three I think and with the approval of the other books we each had borrowed, we went happily home. I can still smell that old bus and all the books in it. And I still remember that Librarian...always in a skirt and always helpful and happy to see all of my brother sand sisters. Nancy Drew, Trixie Beldon, The Hardy Boys were all borrowed from there as were many Enid Blyton books. We didn't have a lot of money growing up so the purchase of new books was a pretty rare thing...but that book mobile provided us with such a wealth of entertainment, knowledge and happiness during all my childhood years on PEI. I am sure this is where the seed of wanting to be a TL was planted...on that old book mobile in rural PEI. Now its all about media specialists and program leaders...and I cannot help but feel a bit nostalgic about her role on the book mobile. I wonder if there are any book mobiles still around.