>Clara Breed

by Roger Sutton
Feb 20, 2006 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>Have a look at this story about Clara Breed, a San Diego librarian who in the 1940s, outraged at the internment of her young Japanese-American patrons, sent them books at the internment camp at Poston. Joanne Oppenheim has a new book about Breed, Dear Miss Breed, which is being reviewed in the March issue of the HB, and the magazine also had an earlier part to play in the story, publishing Miss Breed's contemporary account of the situation. I'll get that uploaded for you when the office opens tomorrow.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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shewhousuallydoesn'tdothistypeofthing

>Andy, I looked up the worm lollipops on the web site you mentioned and they're incredible. Who in the world buys this stuff?

Posted : Feb 23, 2006 03:33

Roger Sutton

>In the movie Pleasantville, the Reese Witherspoon character, after a mildly debauched adolescence, renounces it in favor of a life devoted to books. "The slut thing got kind of old," she confesses to her brother. Might I suggest that the food thing is getting kind of old, and that posters learn to both choose their moments and stay on topic.

Posted : Feb 22, 2006 01:55

shewhousuallydoesn'tdothistypeofthing

>Well, all right, you can have a fashion section but it cannot consist ENTIRELY of bow ties.

Posted : Feb 22, 2006 05:58

Andy Laties

>Ummmm, yes. Roger, a paper is never made up entirely of editorials....

(Breakfast suggestion? Need a protein boost to start the day? Perhaps -- some Worms And Dirt -- via THE OUTSIDE INN by George Ella Lyon, ill. Vera Rosenberry -- get excellent mealworms at www.hotlix.com)

Andy

Posted : Feb 22, 2006 04:45

shewhousuallydoesn'tdothistypeofthing

>Andy, explain to him how a paper is never made up entirely out of editorials. However, now you will get people lobbying for sports sections and fashion sections. Don't you listen to them.

Posted : Feb 22, 2006 02:49

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