ANNOUNCEMENT (courtesy of Susan Siegel, BookHunter Press)
Meet a 14-year-old book collector on C-SPAN's Book-TV:
September 14th, 8am and 12:00 noon (EDT)
The two part Book-TV segment will include a video of the presentation the teenager, Basie Gitlin, gave at a Connecticut public library on the different types of books he collects and his views on how children's fiction and non-fiction books have changed over the years. He also discusses why he usually prefers the older ones. There is also an interview with Basie in his home.
Basie has been collecting books since he was 10 and estimates that he currently has over 2,000 books in his collection.
Editor's Note: Nice to know about this--that there is younger generation of readers and collectors! :>)
