Josh Funk, the picture-book author responsible for Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast and its sequels, returns to rhyming form in this adventures featuring Patience and Fortitude, the two stone lions who stand guard outside the New York Public Library's famed 42nd Street building. I have to buy this book and find a kid to read it to! My favourite fact was about Patience and Fortitude, which reads in part: They have perched there since 1911 and were given their names in the 1930s by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in recognition of the qualities he felt New Yorkers would need to survive the Great Depression. The dot points made the story really come alive for me and solidified this library’s place on my bucket list. I was able to learn about the different rooms Fortitude visited in his search for Patience, as well as the statues and paintings he spoke to. What I found especially interesting was the Get to Know the New York Public Library! page at the end of the book. My eyes may have gotten a little misty towards the end of my reread it’s just such a beautiful story! The rhymes are lovely, the story is about friendship, the setting is a library, the illustrations are beautiful and the answer to the mystery of Patience’s location is bookish! I’ve read this book twice so far and I’ve smiled my way through it both times. This is one of the best kid’s books I’ve read this year. Fortitude knows he needs to find Patience before dawn so they can return to their posts and greet the library’s visitors. He asks for help from those he meets inside including the statue called Frolicsome Girl. Concerned, Fortitude enters the library and searches for his friend. One morning Fortitude wakes before dawn and discovers that Patience isn’t sitting on his plinth. Now that I’ve read this book I know that if I ever get to visit this wonderful place I will be imagining Patience and Fortitude’s adventures as well as keeping an eye out for my favourite spectral librarian. I’ve wanted to live in the New York Public Library since my first Ghostbusters experience. He has played _ since age _ and his biggest fear in life is being eaten by a _.įor more information about Josh Funk, visit him at and on social media at first met Patience and Fortitude over thirty years ago when Venkman and Stanz passed them on their way to meet Egon and spend some quality time with the library ghost. Josh enjoys _ during _ and has always loved _. Josh is terrible at writing bios, so please help fill in the blanks. Since the fall of 2015, Josh has presented (or virtually presented) at over 750 schools, classrooms, and libraries. Today, he still lives in New England and when not writing Java code or Python scripts, he drinks Java coffee and writes manuscripts. Josh grew up in New England and studied Computer Science in school. Josh Funk writes silly stories such as the Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast series (including sequels The Case of the Stinky Stench, Mission Defrostable, Short & Sweet, and The Great Caper Caper), the How to Code with Pearl and Pascal series (including How to Code a Sandcastle and How to Code a Rollercoaster), Dear Unicorn, Dear Dragon, My Pet Feet, the It's Not a Fairy Tale series (including It's Not Jack and the Beanstalk, It's Not Hansel and Gretel, It's Not Little Red Riding Hood, and It's Not the Three Little Pigs), the A Story of Patience & Fortitude series in conjunction with the New York Public Library (including Lost in the Library and Where Is Our Library?), Albie Newton, Pirasaurs!, A Night at the Bookstore: A Barnsie & Noble Adventure, and more coming soon!
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