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What bookworms want
Linda Feldmann
Washington Bureau Chief
What bookworm doesn’t remember their first library? For me, it was the public library in downtown Winchester, Massachusetts. I remember sitting in the stacks as a kid, looking around and thinking, “I want to read every single book.” In rural Tunisia, some children have the same opportunity, thanks to Judge Omar Weslati, as reported in today’s Daily. His initiative – called Zira’at al-Maktabat, Arabic for “planting libraries” – is giving kids something he didn’t have growing up, books to read right there at school.
