librarian retirement cake

[teach2004]

Our librarian is retiring after 42 years of teaching. I am in charge of getting the cake for her retirement tea. The cake is going to be an open book sitting on top of a sheet cake. They are going to write Happy Retirement or Congratulations on the sheet cake. I need ideas to write on the book. All of my creativity left me about March, so I need your help!

[teach2004]

Please help me! I have to tell them what to put on it by the end of the week, and my brain is shot. I know you guys are creative.

[Teacher4Kids]

Below are just a few quotes I found about books or reading that might be appropriate.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
- Arnold Lobel

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
-Jim Bishop, A Bishop's Confession, 1981

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-Logan Pearsall Smith,

[DizneeTeachR]

What about thanks for sharing many chapters of your life here.
Or put something like Chapter 42 Retirement then Congratulations or Thank you or something on the other side.

[Tasha]

Age [and retirement] appear to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors
to read.
— Francis Bacon

[MrsC]

list the schools she has taught at and the years she was at each one

[love2teach]

I thought I replied to this..but it is not here...so I guess not....

But...what if teach grade or class came up with a favorite book or memory to share. EAch class could have a page to fill out?

[teach2004]

Thanks for the great ideas! I appreciate them.