Must Be Nice!: Poems Only School Librarians Will Understand

by Kathy Mansfield

If you are a school librarian, then you have probably heard someone say, "Must be nice just to read all day!" Celebrate the joys and the challenges of the school library profession with this collection of light-hearted poems that only a library media specialist can truly understand.

32 pages, Paperback

Published March 11, 2016

About the author

Kathy Mansfield enjoys life with her husband, Rick. Kathy is originally from Louisiana but has called Kentucky her home for the last 27 years. She is an award-winning school librarian who served as elementary library media specialist in four different Kentucky schools, running the gamut from inner city to suburban to rural. Kathy recently retired as the library media/textbooks consultant for the KY Department of Education.

Kathy's love of poetry began at an early age, but she didn't start writing her own poems until she was an adult. Inspiration for her Bible poetry came from summers spent with her grandma in Arkansas. "Grandma and I would talk about different Bible stories and about how important God was in our lives. I started to make poems out of some of our favorite Bible passages."

A love for encouraging children to read combined with the joy of creating Bible poems resulted in Kathy's first book, . . . And a Poem. Visit www.andapoem.com to see samples from that book and from the recently released second volume, . . . And a Poem, Too.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This short book of poems about being an elementary school librarian is right on. Every poem I could relate to - From poems ranging staff meetings held in the library, demands of teachers, people donating books to the old card catalog - this book hits home. I especially liked "Let's Just Read!" and "My Friend Dewey". I'm even thinking of incorporating "My Friend Dewey" into my teaching of the DDS to the kids (when they come back) - have them roam the non-fiction section and come up with two-liners....hmmmm....could be fun.