You are listening to all the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host for the week, Kutersha Brown, and this is episode number 380.5.

It is late September, somehow we are a week away from October.

And all month long, I have been seeing all of the telltale signs of kids returning to school.

Some of you have probably seen it for a lot longer.

Happens a little bit later here where I am in the Northwest because summer didn't really start till the end of July.

Anyway, it's been a very long time since I have needed to pack a backpack for the first day of school.

But I still admittedly wander the school supply aisles at Target, just looking at all the different colors of folders,

and at the pencil sharpeners, and then thinking about how nice it is that people still have pencil sharpeners,

because I don't know when the last time I saw someone using a pencil was.

And honestly, would I buy a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper right the second if one were available to me?

Yes, of course I would. Those things were amazing on more levels than I have time to describe to you today.

And honestly, the thing about Back to School Season that always makes me kind of most nostalgic,

the thing that I tend to think about this time of year is the books that I read as a kid.

I can still picture all of my favorite corners of my elementary school library.

And if you are listening to this podcast, I am guessing that might be true for you as well.

And it always kind of bumps me out that picture books have not been claimed as, you know, like, okay or acceptable for adult readers in the same way that YA and even middle grade books have.

So as school libraries reopen for a new year, maybe it is time to change that.

And we'll talk more about it right after we think are all the backless sponsors.

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