
- The Librarian Action Figure (approximately 5 inches tall) is modeled after real-life librarian Nancy Pearl, author of the book ‘Book Lust.’ Includes push-button shushing action and bonus trading card and bookmarks. Weapon of Choice: The Dewey Decimal System Accomplishments: Director of Library Programming and the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library.
- Nancy is best known for the, ‘If All Seattle Read The Same Book’ project. This idea of one city reading the same book at the same time has been imitated in cities around the world. She is a book reviewer for the Seattle Times, Booklist, Library Journal, KUOW-FM Seattle, and KWGS-FM Tulsa.
- Awards: 2003 Washington Humanities Award, 2001 Allie Beth Martin Award from the American Library Association, 1998 Library Journal’s Fiction Reviewer of the Year. Education: Masters Degree in Library Sciences from the University of Michigan.
- Interesting Fact: Decided to become a librarian at the age of 10. Books Written: Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason; Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 19781998; and Now Read This II: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 19902001.
- Favorite Books: FictionThe Brothers K, The Prince of Tides, Searching for Caleb, The Eyre Affair, A Gay and Melancholy Sound. Non-FictionThe Best and the Brightest, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, The Liars’ Club, Into Thin Air.
You can have all the books, magazines, periodicals, journals, videos, and CD ROMs in the world, but without a librarian you’ll be frustrated and overwhelmed before you can say “Dewey Decimal System.” And although most librarians can’t travel faster than a speeding bullet, or leap over tall buildings in a single bound, they can direct you to an article on the physics of speed, an instructional pamphlet on high jumping, and a book of photographs of the world’s tallest buildings. Each 5″ (12.7 cm) tall, hard vinyl Librarian Action Figure is modeled after Nancy Pearl, a real-life librarian from Seattle. Pull her arm down, then press the button on her back and the arm will move up to her lips with “amazing shushing action!” Comes with a tiny plastic book and a stack of random literature. Nancy Pearl trading card included!… more >>
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