Caroline Feller Bauer, 77, children’s librarian, educator, and author died April 15, in Miami, Florida. She received her PhD from the University of Oregon, where she also was an associate professor of library science. In addition, she worked as a children’s librarian at New York Public Library and as a school librarian for the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale.
Bauer was known for her presentations with the Bureau of Education and Research (BER) that demonstrated how to bring children and books together. Bauer was also the author of several books on promoting children’s literature and library programming, including Handbook for Storytellers (ALA, 1995), This Way to Books (HW Wilson, 1983), and The Poetry Break: An Annotated Anthology With Ideas for Introducing Children to Poetry (HW Wilson, 1994). In recent years she lived in Bhattiary, Bangladesh where she established a play park, library, and arts and crafts center for children.