Patricia Polacco's picture book Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair is a tribute "To stubborn librarians everywhere. . ." Her message is as valid in 2021 as at the time of this story. What would Aunt Chip think of the current obsession with video games, mobile phones, social media, and a plethora of products for digital learning? Fifty years prior to when this story takes place, the Triple Creek library was demolished, and Aunt Chip went into seclusion. "There will be consequences!" she warned as everyone in town watched television day and night. Now, Aunt Chip has gray hair. Her nephew, Eli, visits nearly every day to hear her tell stories. One day, he says that books have many useful purposes, but no one in Triple Creek reads them. Luckily, Aunt Chip now has the resolve to defend literacy and the town recovers from decades of distraction.
