![]() ![]() In 1895, when she was twenty-four, she moved to New York, where she more or less invented the children’s library.Īt the time, you had to be fourteen, and a boy, to get into the Astor Library, which opened in 1854, the same year as the Boston Public Library, the country’s first publicly funded city library, where you had to be sixteen. Her seven older brothers called her Shrimp. She had a horse named Pocahontas, a father who read to her from Aesop’s Fables, and a grandmother with no small fondness for “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Annie, whose taste ran to “Little Women,” was a reader and a runt. Anne Carroll Moore was born long ago but not so far away, in Limerick, Maine, in 1871. ![]()
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