Books really can speak to you

She’s been a member of one library or another from the age of 5, as soon as she was able to walk to her local library by herself. She volunteered at her school libraries and her university libraries, and now volunteers for the Westmount Public Library.

Lee regularly borrows from the library not only books, but also books-on-tape. For Lee, books recorded on tape or CD conjure up traditions of oral storytelling. She also finds them soothing, and a good way to accompany chores like cooking, sewing, or knitting.

Books-on-tape are an easy way to help people of all ages learn a new language. The sounds and rhythms of the language come across through the language of the story. Rhymes and word-games leap out when read aloud.

The Westmount Public Library is here for you: listen to the words of a book.