[LM_NET] Eric Carle Museum

[Brenda Kahn <labsnbooks@AOL.COM>]

I visited the Eric Carle Museum three summers ago with my then 
eighteen-year-old son. We were on our way to Boston for his orientation 
at Northeastern University and took a side trip. I was a little 
disappointed with it's small size. We were done in an hour, but I was 
enchanted by everything I saw. I just wanted more. I loved the library. 
When I browsed the shelves, I found When You Give a Mouse a Cookie on 
the "B" shelf and thought it was mis-shelved until I realized that the 
books are filed by illustrators last name! That made me chuckle.

The cafeteria is filled with wonderful homemade, unusual food. I had 
curried chicken salad and a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie which 
had a hole cut out of it in honor of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which 
had turned 35. We ate outside on a lovely patio with a view of an apple 
orchard. My son liked the place. "It's peaceful here" was his comment. 
I even got a kick out of the bathrooms. The tiles are his various 
animals and there is a tiny little child-size toilet. And the gift shop 
was wonderful!!!

I returned last November when we were visiting colleges in the Amherst 
area with my two youngest sons. Unfortunately, the second, non-Carle 
exhibit room was closed for an installation leaving only the room I had 
already seen.

Brenda Kahn
Librarian/ Webmaster
NBCT Candidate
Haworth Public School
Haworth, NJ
labsnbooks@aol.com
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