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Castles and Costumes!

This week I had the honor of sharing story time with the Lemme Leopards!

I also read some stories to the spooks at South Hamilton Elementary.

No leopards or spooks at the Eldora Public Library though.

Their library is a huge castle!

I met two gallant knights with purple shields.

And I even met the king and queen of the library!

At [...]

Transmission Received!

I love the Iowa City Public Library.  It’s filled with such amazing characters.

I always know I can find a game of pick up basketball there!

But always watch out for the occasional stuffed animal stampede.

Later, at the Coralville Public Library I received an incoming transmission.  Wait, those headsets didn’t work!

Ah, yes, these headsets worked much better.  Transmission [...]

When I Grow Up!

Sometimes I think that when I grow up I want to be an astronaut!

Or maybe captain of my own starship!

I could explore strange new worlds across the universe!

And voyage to the depths of ancient underwater kingdoms!

I could observe amazing new lifeforms for researchand try to avoid being observed myself!

Alien civilizations would accept me into their [...]

Birthday Monday 11-05-2007 and Costume Adventures!

Happy Birthday to all of these fabulous Kids Club Members!

Last week I had the honor of visiting two schools:Hubbell Elementary…

And Walnut Street Elementary!

I was also met by many interesting characters at theIowa Children’s Museum in Coralville during their Halloween Celebration!

I met some of my favorite video game heroes!

I listened to a concert by an all-tuba [...]

New Record for Story Time!

New record alert! New record alert!Yesterday morning we set a new record for a single story timewhen a crowd of 321 showed up at the Iowa City Public Library!

I was so worn out afterwards I took a nap!

I dreamt I was in the land of the dinosaurs and dragons!

Next I dreamt I was playing [...]