![]() She certainly doesn’t appear intimidating with her flowing purple dress, billowing scarf, and long, white hair pulled back from a moon-shaped face. The silence is so abrupt and complete you might wonder what sort of power Schlitz wields over these children. “You’re going to love it.” His cheeks simultaneously dimple and redden.Īll talk ceases when Laura Amy Schlitz appears, clasps her hands behind her back, and surveys the group. A girl leans across her friend to comment on the Splendors and Glooms book held by a boy sitting nearby: “I thought that book was amazing,” she says. Chatting in clusters of two and three, some discuss books they’ve brought along Diary of a Wimpy Kid and The Baby-Sitters Club are particularly well represented. They fan out across padded benches along the back wall or plop down on a map-of-the-world rug covering the floor. ![]() Dozens of spirited fifth-graders file into Park School’s lower-school library at 8:45 in the morning. ![]()
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