another library, which ended up being modern and beautiful and filled with a colorful and fun kids section. It had a great collection of books in Spanish, and the most pitiful collection of English books you can imagine—about a dozen old, obscure, poorly-written, publisher-reject picture books. Fortunately, Jacob could read the Spanish books, and Amy and I just translated the Spanish picture books for Alexander. We stayed there for three or four hours and the kids were so happy. We were happy to learn that we could get a library card, but the system is not so easy as the US. You have to pay $8 for the card, and you can only check out one book for the first two visits. Then, if you’ve been a good library patron, you can check out a whopping three books. This will take some getting used to, considering in Houston it’s our habit to check out about 25 books at a time, and the limit at the Houston library is something like 100 books. Here’s our friend Edwin in front of the library.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Library de Santiago
We went looking for kids books, and headed to the grandious National Library close to our house. It was like the Library of Congress, with a formal reading room and a process to obtain a book. No kid books there. So, they sent us to
another library, which ended up being modern and beautiful and filled with a colorful and fun kids section. It had a great collection of books in Spanish, and the most pitiful collection of English books you can imagine—about a dozen old, obscure, poorly-written, publisher-reject picture books. Fortunately, Jacob could read the Spanish books, and Amy and I just translated the Spanish picture books for Alexander. We stayed there for three or four hours and the kids were so happy. We were happy to learn that we could get a library card, but the system is not so easy as the US. You have to pay $8 for the card, and you can only check out one book for the first two visits. Then, if you’ve been a good library patron, you can check out a whopping three books. This will take some getting used to, considering in Houston it’s our habit to check out about 25 books at a time, and the limit at the Houston library is something like 100 books. Here’s our friend Edwin in front of the library.
another library, which ended up being modern and beautiful and filled with a colorful and fun kids section. It had a great collection of books in Spanish, and the most pitiful collection of English books you can imagine—about a dozen old, obscure, poorly-written, publisher-reject picture books. Fortunately, Jacob could read the Spanish books, and Amy and I just translated the Spanish picture books for Alexander. We stayed there for three or four hours and the kids were so happy. We were happy to learn that we could get a library card, but the system is not so easy as the US. You have to pay $8 for the card, and you can only check out one book for the first two visits. Then, if you’ve been a good library patron, you can check out a whopping three books. This will take some getting used to, considering in Houston it’s our habit to check out about 25 books at a time, and the limit at the Houston library is something like 100 books. Here’s our friend Edwin in front of the library.
