Nelly Toll was born in Lwόw, Poland in 1935.  She recalls being six years old when the Germans entered Lwόw.  First greeted as heroes, the Germans quickly turned their attention to the persecution and deportation of the Jews.  During this period Toll created a diary which documented the trauma of hiding from the Nazis.  She also created some sixty watercolor paintings which illustrated a fantasy world in which there was happiness and hope.  As a young child, Toll lived with her mother in a room in the home of a Catholic family, and hid in a “secret window,” standing mutely on the sill of a window bricked-up from the outside when required to hide.  As described by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the life of Nelly and children like her “was a life in shadows, where a careless remark, a denunciation, or the murmurings of inquisitive neighbors could lead to discovery and death.”  Given a watercolor set by her mother, she painted small pictures of what she imagined a normal life would resemble.  The images are filled with friends playing outside, pretty new dresses, parties, dinners, pets, and family—things that young Nelly could not have in hiding.  In stark contrast to the imaginary world of her paintings, Toll also kept a diary that chronicled a young child’s experience of life in Nazioccupied Poland.  Toll and her mother were liberated by the Russian army in July, 1944, and later emigrated to the United States.  Toll reported she and her remaining family celebrated the end of the war in Krakόw, Poland in May, 1945.  As an adult Toll wrote an award-winning book about her experience, Behind the Secret Window (1993), based on her childhood diary.  http://www.massillonmuseum.org/media/1/7/ImaginingABetterWorld_NellyTollBio.pdf

Trailer for "Imagining a Better World:  The Nelly Toll Story"  Produced by DOCdance Productions in partnership with Massillon Museum  2014  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMRvHPsCQuI   2:08

Puzzling for learning: A crossed stick, a cross tick, acrostic by Debra Josephson Abrams

http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/puzzling-for-learning-a-crossed-stick-a-cross-tick-acrostic/education

The suffix -ful has been derived from the English word "full" and the literal meaning is "full of".  The suffix -ful can also mean "characterised by or given, able or tending to be something".  The suffix -ful is written with only one 'l'.  The suffix -less has been derived from the English word "less" and the literal meaning is "without" or "lacking".  The suffix -less can mean "unable to act or be acted on in a specified way".  https://www.englishpower.eu/en/ep-free-lessons/intermediate/adjectives-and-adverbs/adjective-formation-suffixes-ful-and-less#.V0h83fkrKUk

seldom-used words with the suffix -ful or -less:  aidful, regardful  https://www.morewords.com/contains/ful/  artless, stripeless  https://www.morewords.com/contains/less/

IDIOM  Up to (one's) neck in alligators  business adage   The full expression is some variation of:   "When you are up to your neck in alligators, it's easy to forget that the goal was to drain the swamp."  It is easy to be so overcome or preoccupied by various tangential worries, problems, or tasks that one loses sight of the ultimate goal or objective.  http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/up+to+my+neck+in+alligators

East of Lancashire, England lies Pendle Hill, known for its historical association with witch trials, scientific discoveries about air pressure, and religious visions that led to the founding of the Quaker movement.  It is also known for having a tautological name.  A tautological name has two parts that are redundant, or synonymous.  Tautological place names usually come about when more than one language goes into the name.  Some California examples that mix Spanish and English are Laguna Lake (Lake Lake) and Lake Lagunita (Lake Little Lake).  The Pendle in Pendle Hill is derived from Pen-hyll, a combination of the Cumbric word for hill and the Old English word for hill.  So Pendle Hill is really Hill Hill Hill.  Read about other redundant place names, including Lake Tahoe, La Brea tar pits, Sahara Desert, El Camino Real, Mississippi River, and East Timor at http://mentalfloss.com/article/50004/11-totally-redundant-place-names

NAME CHANGES  Lady Gaga  (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta born 1986), Bob Dylan

(Robert Allen Zimmerman born 1941)  Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson born 1886)  Kirk Douglas ( Issur Danielovitch born 1916)

How do authors pronounce their names?  Among the examples are:  • Louise Erdrich  “Er-drik.”, • Lisa Kleypas “KLY-pus.”, • John Lescroart “Less-kwah.”, • Gillian Flynn “Gil-lian” (Gil like a fish gill)  Mid-Continent Public Library  http://www.mymcpl.org/blog/they-pronounce-their-name-how  Mid-Continent Public Library, officially known as Consolidated Library District #3, is a consolidated public library system serving Clay, Platte, and Jackson Counties in Missouri, with headquarters in Independence, Missouri.  See also https://www.bookbrowse.com/authors/author_pronunciations/index.cfm? and http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi

Excerpt from Engaging Babies in the Library: Putting Theory Into Practice by Debra J. Knoll (ALA Editions, 2016).   Babies, toddlers, and care providers are only one set of many populations served by children’s librarians.  Nevertheless, baby brain research has galvanized the profession to try to do more, and it has.  Librarians are now beginning to realize the impact they have on a baby’s development can influence his or her developing brain for a lifetime, and they are doing whatever it takes to make these early years happy and positive.  The stakes here are high.  After all, these are human lives growing and developing very quickly.  Find "baby steps" and "big steps" for librarians and administrators in committing to engage babies, and the Four Respects of Anne Carroll Moore, a pioneer of children’s librarianship who served New York Public Library from 1906 to 1941, and are still embraced by children’s librarians today at

  https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/engaging-babies-library-childrens-librarians/  

Scientists and archaeologists have long known that the Antikythera Mechanism—a device that was discovered in an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901—was astonishingly ahead of its time when it was built nearly 2,100 years ago.  After more than a decade’s efforts that involved using state-of-the art scanning devices to decipher about 3,500 characters of explanatory text written in ancient Greek beneath the surface of the corroded fragments, scientists have come to the conclusion that the device was used for both astronomical and astrological purposes.  “Now we have texts that you can actually read as ancient Greek, what we had before was like something on the radio with a lot of static,” Alexander Jones, a historian from New York University and a member of the team that deciphered the text, reportedly said.  “It’s a lot of detail for us because it comes from a period from which we know very little about Greek astronomy and essentially nothing about the technology, except what we gather from here. So these very small texts are a very big thing for us.”  Avaneesh Pandey   http://www.ibtimes.com/antikythera-mechanism-mysteries-2100-year-old-computer-revealed-after-decade-long-2381170

The 148th Belmont Stakes (1 1/2 miles on dirt; $1.5 million purse)  Winner:  Creator, by a nose  Time: 2:28.57  http://pix11.com/2016/06/11/belmont-stakes-2016-results-who-won-the-festival-of-racing/

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1483  June 13, 2016  On this date in 1963, Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, was born.  On this date in 1966, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.