The children’s library, which some of you contributed to so generously, is keeping us busy these days. We open every evening for a few hours and a few afternoons as well.
Some university students help out during their work-study time.
The 200 plus books are being well circulated. It is really something to see juniors in high school reading and enjoying the illustrations in Where the Wild Things Are (Donde Viven Los Montruos). 
They had - and have - little access to books throughout their childhood. The elementary grades have one text , a reading book . The third grade reader, for example, deals with such topics as, the bones, the departments of Bolivia, traffic rules, and the digestive system – so it is a science, social studies, geography, all around text.
Right now we have 70 library users signed up from pueblos as far as an hour’s walk away. A second grader, Kevin,
(pronounced K’been) is about to fill his borrowers sheet which means he has borrowed 50 books. He deserves a little reward - maybe a box of crayons or a pencil and a sharpener . . .
During the evening library hours when they stop in to return and pick out another book many will stay to play cards or checkers or Scrabble. Puzzles are also quite popular among all ages. Watching the junior high schoolers doing simple puzzles over and over demonstrates better than words the needs we are trying to fill.
One of the University students in the art roomLee has set up carved a beautiful sign which we
hang when the library is opened.
Thanks to all for your support! Jean
