Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile

Submitted by Ms. Sue!
Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile by Gloria Houston is the story of Dorothy Thomas, the author’s real life childhood hero, who delivered books to her when she was a child every week. Dorothy was a young girl that loved books. She also loved people. She decided to become a librarian when she grew up, so she could be in charge of a fine brick library, just like the one in her hometown in Massachusetts. She went to college, and then library school, but before Dorothy could become a librarian in a fine brick building, she got married, and moved to North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Dorothy’s house was cozy, and she had bountiful gardens of vegetables and flowers, but there was no library, so a meeting was called with all her friends that loved to read, and they decided to start a bookmobile that Dorothy would be the librarian of. When Miss Dorothy’s green bookmobile arrived, everyone came out to see. She kept her donated books in her basement, and everyday she loaded and unloaded her truck with stacks of books that she carried up and down the steep staircase. Miss Dorothy delivered books over hills and valleys to churches, schools, farms, grocery stores, and even the courthouse steps, until finally one day a reader donated a little white house to be used as a library. It wasn’t a fine brick library, but her dream had still come true! See this book listed in our catalog