Kathleen Horning is having a few close friends over for the holidays, some of the same characters who might show up in anyone?s home over the next four weeks. They include Truman Capote, an angel or three, a donkey, a carpenter, a couple of guys on skis and some freezing soldiers, even a snow lady. Horning directs the Cooperative Children?s Book Center located on the fourth floor of the Helen C. White building on the UW-Madison campus. It is a treasury of lore, content and advice effusively doled out to the state?s and the nation?s librarians, teachers, parents and anyone else interested in all that touches children literature. She was asked about unheralded or forgotten children?s books about the holidays, the sort of books that a family keeps together in one place and might bring out just for the season, the sort that make good gift books that are opened time and again, that might be read starting Dec. 1 a chapter per night, book in hand, child in lap.
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