Our Willard Library Ghost Encounter?

UPDATE MAY 5, 2021:  Willard Public Library once again has its ghost cams up and running, so maybe you'll spot the elusive "grey lady."

Who Took Aggie's Teeth?

Who took Aggie McPooch's teeth?  Just asking.

Miss Michelle @ MPL: Early Literacy Fun at the Library

(Week of March 17-23, 2013)

Featuring Crafty Gal & Aggie McPooch

This week Crafty Gal and Aggie McPooch talk teeth.  Lots of them from a fun Dr. Seuss book and some cool crafts for tonight's Pajama Time program, at which will appear (drum roll, minions) The Tooth Fairy. Crafty Gal had to pull a few strings to arrange this special visit.  Lucky she didn't have to pull any teeth!  (Dental humor cracks moi up.)  Maybe that's what happened to Aggie's teeth!  Guest speakers usually charge a fee, after all.

They also discussed the cold weather we're currently having and how they miss sunshine and rainbows.  Crafty Gal made a cool 3-D rainbow craft for her early literacy kids.  Pretty cool!

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  February was National Children's Dental Health Month, of which we are now aware (better late than never, I'd wager).  The goal is to encourage good teeth care.  Keep 'em clean!  You only get two sets, and the second batch has to last your whole life.  This fellow (watch the video below) from my hometown owned a movie production company that made a film about taking care of your teeth.

Leon Adler, Mooresville's Movie Mogul

(Mooresville Moments 18)

by Mooresville (Indiana) Public Library

 

The One and Only Ivan

The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate, won the 2013 Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.  Sadly, my Library has no book trailer for it, but we could swipe somebody else's.  Minions, make it so.

Official Book Trailer to

The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate
(Illustrations by Patricia Castelao)

 

Actually, we just borrowed that book trailer.  It's the publisher's official video promoting the book, so the author and HarperCollins want you to watch it.

Casey at the Bat visited North Madison Elementary School to present a book talk about The One and Only Ivan.  Mrs. Tracy Gercak's third graders did a class project about it.  Want to see photos?  You betcha.

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Mrs. Gercak told Casey at the Bat that The One and Only Ivan is "the best book ever!"  High praise from someone who knows what interests her students.  After you read it, you may very well share her enthusiasm.  Winning the Newbery Medal is truly the cat's PJs.

Check our Evergreen Indiana online catalog to place a hold on a copy of the book, if you have the coveted E.I. library card.  It's frightfully popular (the book and the E.I. card), so you may have to wait a bit until a copy becomes available.  Well worth the wait, I'd venture.

Great job with your project, North Madison third graders!

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

 P.S.  Julie Hembree, a school librarian in the Lake Washington School District in Redmond, Washington, made this book trailer for The One and Only Ivan.  Visit Julie's YouTube channel for other book trailers and videos promoting school libraries and literacy.

It's WAY Too Cold For Spring

Sixteen degrees Fahrenheit, read the thermometer.  That's WAY too cold for Spring in Indiana, even in late March.  (For everybody outside the USA, here's the Celsius conversion for that temp:  Minus 8.88888888.)

 Cold Kitty Needs a Warm Hat & Scarf

Slobberdogs Make Good Blankets

 

Hey, weathermaker!  Look at the calendar.  Winter is over.  Spring started yesterday.  Make with the warm already!

Unlike most of the humans (and some of the felines) I know around town, I've lived in Mooresville all my life.   I've seen all kinds of weather in March.  Remember, I'm a feline roving reporter.  I spend most of my time outdoors, so cold is no friend of mine.  "In like a lion" is ordinarily true--March 1 is often blustery--but "out like a lamb" is clearly not so this year.

I realize that last year's summer-like March temperatures were a spoiler.  Still, this far a swing in the opposite direction is just ridiculous!

I expect warmer weather, pronto!  Minions, make it so.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  "Cold Morning Light," by Todd Rundgren, appeared on his double-LP Something/Anything? (1972).

Strange Condor Roosts in Our Fiction Stacks

A rather strange condor has roosted in the adult fiction stacks at my Library.

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We don't usually see such a large winged too-big-to-be-my-dinner critter.  Come to think of it, I wonder if that's a condor, after all.  Let's check one of our encyclopedic databases, Britannica Image Quest.

California Condor

Must be a different type than the one atop our fiction stacks.  The head coloring is different.  There's also something really familiar about our giant winged-dinner-of-prey.

Boss Lady, MPL Director

NOW I've placed her!  That's no winged dinner!  That's Boss Lady.  But what's she doing walking across the tops of the shelves?  I don't see a nest, so she's not waiting for chicksoons.  Maybe it's some type of performance-enhancing exercise that librarians do at staff in-service training.  That's when the photo was taken (February 18, 2013).  I remember there were staff breakout sessions for specific topics--none of which involved any special din-dins for moi, I might note in passing.

MPL Staff In-Service Breakout Training Session

February 18, 2013

I included four photos just to annoy my colleagues.

I hope Boss Lady dusted while she was perched up there.  Shelf tops can get really dusty after seven years.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Simon and Garfunkel recorded a cover of a traditional Peruvian folk song, "El Cóndor Pasa" (1913), which I believe translates into English as "The Condor Passes."  It was included on their LP Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970).