In honor of Read Across America Day (which also happened to be Dr. Seuss' birthday) occurring this week, Patch visited the Moorpark City Library and asked the staff members about their favorite books for this week's Patch Picks column.
It appears that when you work around thousands of books each day, picking just one is especially difficult, so we let them pick a few each.
PATCH PICKS: BOOKS
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Heather Cousin, librarian
Adult book pick: John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
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Children's book pick: George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square
Meg Thackoorie, youth services librarian
Adult book: Any Irish non-fiction history books
Children's books: Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows and Obert Skye's Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (Mrs. T said if you like Harry Potter, you'll like the Leven Thumps series!)
Serenity Wilcox, teen librarian
Adult book: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Teen's book: Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak
Cindy Cooper, assistant librarian
Adult book: Pat Conroy's Prince of Tides
Salvador Villa, library tech
Adult book: Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist
J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
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