Saturday, April 30, 2022

Bookmobile

~ 1956 ~
Who doesn't love a neighborhood
visit from the Bookmobile?

Even more exciting than the ice cream truck circling our block every summer afternoon was the Bookmobile arriving once every other week! I loved to enter the air - conditioned van, peruse all the choices, and check out Little Women. The illustrated version that was my favorite in 1968 is still a vived memory.

Searching google images, I was disappointed not to come across an exact match for the book jacket that I remember so well. This 1960 abridged paperback is not exactly right but the closest I could find. My Bookmobile version was a big fat hardback with a laminated chartreuse cover. However, it had this same floral oval cameo motif; so I'm guessing it might have been the hardback companion to this paperback:

1960


More on Louisa May Alcott

Junior High Favorites

Transcendentalists

Orchard House

Simone de Beauvoir

Jo March and More

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More happy memories from Bookmobile Days:
Author Cards!
So many authors to learn about!
More recent editions:

1 comment:

  1. www.thinkinghumanity.com/2017/03/before-amazon-we-had-bookmobiles-15-rare-photos-of-libraries-on-wheels.html

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