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After spending a few days of vacation around the campfire, I was ready to get back to the Reading Road Trip!

I never would have guessed that some woodland creatures would have followed me from the campsite to the Pocahontas Public Library!

Luckily, the crowd was very hospitable and made room for the forest beasts!

And, as an added surprise this morning, I was invited to perform with three of the town’s most talented sopranos!

I hopped onto a rocket for my afternoon stop [...]

Two outside story times in one week? You better believe it!

It was beautiful outside the Belmond Public Library, but it was also beautiful inside!

They have a book return and a fish return.

They also have a very needy parrot. He loves to give kisses.

The Mason City Public Library is still under construction. So the museum next door hosted all the fun.

And this was not just any museum. It was the home to Bil Baird’s The Sound of Music [...]

It’s official.  Here are the 63 cities I will be visiting during the 2010 Reading Road Trip!

Council Bluffs - June 7 at 9 and 10 a.m
Hamburg - June 8 at 10 a.m.
Essex - June 8 at 1 p.m.
Lenox - June 9 at 10 a.m.
Lamoni - June 9 at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Murray - June 10 at 10 a.m.
Moulton - June 10 at 2 p.m.
Schleswig - June 14 at 10 a.m.
Kimballton - June 14 at 1:30 p.m.
Storm Lake - June 15 [...]

Yesterday morning started bright and earlyat the Mason City Public Library!

Citizens started lining up for the event 30 minutes before it started!

It wasn’t long before everyone was trying to catch the reading bug!

After Mason City I hopped in my amazing flying machineand was off to the Charles City Public Library!

I learned that some strange yellow and green blobs hadbeen hanging around the library ever since the flood!

I consulted the only source I could think ofto help me get rid of [...]

A rainy morning in Mason City didn’t stop us from visiting Meredith Willson!He asked if he could try on my cape, so I let him.

And wow, did the rain bring people indoors for story time!Look at that crowd!

Some kids showed up riding on a giant dalmation.

And I’m not sure how it happened, but I got handcuffed to a T-rex.

Next, one of Clear Lake’s finest boat captains picked us up for the afternoon story times!

In Clear Lake they really get wrapped [...]