Show-stoppers

One of the advantages of working near the Bibliographical Services Team is that I get to see a lot of the incoming stock before it goes out to our libraries. Bibs. are the very small team who do the ordering, receipt and invoicing of all our stock as well as the chasing up, sorting out and tidying up. It can be hard work for them but the up side is their bumping into the occasional book that takes their breath away.

This week's stunner has definitely been Mummy? by Maurice Sendak. It's another of his wonderful pop-up books (which, sadly, tend not to have a long shelf-life in the children's library), the story being a toddler's search for his mummy in a haunted house suitably populated by movie monsters. It is great fun. They've been bought for three of the Storytime Collections to be used in Under-5s Story Times.