Either libraries are defenders of rights to reading, privacy, and information - or we aren't.

Age limitations on access to information have no place in our libraries.

We've allowed this issue to fester for decades and been far too complicit in holding back rights from kids.

That has to change.

Oh sweetie! (Sending hugs across the internet). Poor kiddo, hyper-empathy can be so rough and so overwhelming.

Hamster Princess by Ursula Vernon. Illustrated, whimsical. Fairy-tale level mild monster-dragon goings-on.

Also: what about nonfiction? Like reading cookbooks or reading about something else she enjoys outside of a story?

The Bibliotheque Carnegie is one of the thousands of libraries worldwide funded by Andrew Carnegie, but the only one in France. Designed by architect Max Sainsaulieu, it opened in 1928 and is still a working municipal library, so the public areas can be visited for free.

"fae were at least partly protecting us from other dark unnatural beings who, not being impacted similarly by wifi, now run free."

You mean, like... trolls???
PERFECT!

looking for a Ben Aaronovitch book. As one does.

Thank you for this thread. Co-signed absolutely by a librarian and avid cozy genre reader!