Most Borrowed Books in NYC

I would not have guessed in a million tries that this would have been #1 on the list........

Want to borrow a copy of "The Snowy Day," the award-winning children's story about a young boy experiencing the simple joy of the season's first snowfall? Get in line.

The beloved picture book, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, has been named the most-checked-out book in the New York Public Library's 125-year history.

A team of experts compiled a first-of-its-kind list of the 10 most-borrowed books since the library's founding in 1895. Library officials evaluated the books based on a series of factors, including checkout and circulation data, overall trends, popularity, length of time in print and presence in the library catalog.

I know we've read it with the girls.  There may even be a copy of it here in the house somewhere.

The full top-ten:

1. "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats: 485,583 checkouts

2. "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss: 469,650 checkouts

3. "1984" by George Orwell: 441,770 checkouts

4. "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak: 436,016 checkouts

5. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee: 422,912 checkouts

6. "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White: 337,948 checkouts

7. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury: 316,404 checkouts

8. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie: 284,524 checkouts

9. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling: 231,022 checkouts

10. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle: 189,550 checkouts

• All fiction -- except for 1.
• 3 novels.
• 5 kid books.
• Harry Potter:  the most recently published.

Kinda surprised to not see Steven Covey's "7 Habits....." book on here.

Or Al Gore's  (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!).

Grace & Peace & Love to you all -

Matt