Wednesday is Library Day for Ms Lima's First Grade!

There Is A Land

There is a land--

A marvelous land--

Where trolls and giants dwell;

Where witches

With their bitter brew

Can cast a magic spell;

Where mermaids sing,

Where carpets fly,

Where, in the midst of night,

Brownies dance

To cricket tunes;

And ghosts, all shivery white,

Prowl and moan.

There is a land

Of magic folks and deeds,

And anyone

Can visit there

Who reads and reads and reads.

- Leland B. Jacobs

Leland Blair Jacobs (1907 - 1992)

Leland B. Jacobs was an American professor emeritus of education who was known for his education in the field of prose and poetry. Jacobs was born in Tawas City, Michigan and graduated from Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University). He obtained his Master's from the University of Michigan followed by Ph.D. from Ohio State University couple years later. Later on, he took a job as a school teacher in rural Michigan where he taught at junior high, high, and elementary school of the state, at the later of which he became principal of. Prior to his move to Teachers College, Columbia University in 1952 where he became a professor, he was a teacher at his alma mater, the Ohio State University. He then moved to Leonia, New Jersey where he taught numerous of future teachers on prose and poetry. After he retired from Columbia University he became a gospel preacher.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/07/nyregion/dr-leland-jacobs-85-educator-and-columbia-professor-emeritus.html