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Kids books, from the stacks to the racks.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Sue Corbett
Close your eyes and conjure up an image of a librarian. Hair in a tight bun? Finger in front of her lips, shushing chatty patrons? Granny glasses on the end of her nose?
Yeah, well, forget that. Meet Esme Raji Codell, 21st century school librarian-turned-reading evangelist.
Madame Esme, as she insists children call her, runs a Web site touting good books (named Planet Esme because kids love anything to do with outer space). Madame Esme wears costumes, uses props and will tap dance if the story she's selling demands it.
When Book TV recently broadcast her appearance at an Illinois bookstore, Codell showed up in a floor-length, black-sequined evening gown and sang _ scatted, really _ the text of a picture book about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker to an audience of schoolteachers.
Not many people could pull this off. Esme Codell is not your father's librarian.
But for all her unconventional methods, Codell also has some pretty old-fashioned ideas about how to get a kid to open and consume a book, willingly, even eagerly.
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