What is the Who Was...
series? It’s a series put out by Penguin
Publishers that has our youth coming to the Lodewick Children’s Library and
combing our Biography section looking for titles they haven’t read yet. Of our 82 copies of Who Was… titles, 41 were checked out on the day this article was
written. We have two young patrons with
a rivalry going to see who can go home with a new title first! Our readers are
not the only ones who have discovered this series. The website, www.whowasbookseries.com,
had a contest to see who would be the topic of the 100th book, due
out in 2015. There were over 67,000 votes tallied. And the winner is… Steve
Irwin! Fans may want to come in and discover the series’ new line of books on
events in history: What Was… titles.
New titles now have their own display shelf in our New Nonfiction area.
The genre of easy chapter book fiction has some wonderful
new series too! These are for our readers taking the giant leap from easy
readers to chapter books. Some of the
new series are Captain Awesome, Heidi
Heckelbeck, Violet Mackerel, and Doreen Cronin’s The Chicken Squad.
All hot series for some fun summer reading!
Contributed by Kathy Cherniavsky, Acting Head of Children's Services
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