[Publib] NYPL Staffer

[Nann Blaine Hilyard]

  Two days before Mack wrote his post I got an e-mail message from NYRB, which has reprinted the Jenny books:
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/browse?subcategory_id=73

Coincidence?

Nann
@ZBPL

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I am not a fan of children's books.  With some exceptions--and those are simply not for children.  Such as Esther Averill's Jenny Linsky books.  I mean, Jenny is simply an excellent cat-- and I don't even like cats.

[side note:  I have had to empty the cat boxes at a friend's bookstore all weekend while she is out of town. This perhaps colors my feelings.]

Jenny is what a cat should be:  she travels the world, dances the sailor hornpipe and never once does Captain Tinker have to clean her catbox.  Every adult should read this book and teach their feline(s) to deal with their own cat box situations.

I found a copy of Jenny Goes to Sea at a used book store (interestingly, a religious bookstore, and I'm a cat-disliking atheist) and had to have it.  Also a copy of 30 Years in Sing Sing.  I mean, can you beat that?

And now the qualifying question (meaning the item which qualifies this writing for publib):  Esther Averill is reported to have worked in the New York Public Library.  Doing what?  Somebody out there should know.  I sure as heck don't.  Maybe I'll ask Jenny.  I do know that the author of the Sing Sing book was the Reverend James Ingles, who claims to have saved many a soul in that dank prison.  Excepting perhaps those who went to the chair unrepentant.

M. M. [entered in the log as Jack Tar]


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