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Dr. Seuss News Flash

Seven rhymed tales, dug from hard to find places!
Look for millions of Seuss fans with bright shiny faces! (from Kirkus Reviews)

The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories features seven Seuss tales originally published in Redbook in 1950 and 1951.
1. The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinniga-Zanniga
2. Gustav the Goldfish
3. Tadd and Todd
4. Steak for Supper
5. The Bippolo Seed
6. The Strange Shirt Spot
7. The Great Henry McBride

These seven stories were hunted down by Seuss scholar/collector Charles D. Cohen, who also penned the informative introduction. The end result is a must-read for all fans of the good doctor.

Free Your Mind, Read a Banned Book

Banned Books Week = September 24 - October 1, 2011

Here are the top ten books that were challenged in 2010. Did one of your favorites make the list?
And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Lush by Natasha Friend
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.

Pets on Parade in the Reader's Studio

We had SEVEN new kids in our Reader's Studio meeting this past Monday, September 19! YOO-HOO! For those of you not in the know, Reader's Studio is a genre-based book club for 2nd-5th graders. We started this school year with the theme Pets on Parade, and we had quite an array of pets represented in the books we chose.

Aleisa = nonfiction book about Corgis (the same kind of dog she has as a pet)

Alonda = Cooking with the Cat by Bonnie Worth (featuring the Cat in the Hat)

Meet Author River Jordan

Please join us this Tuesday, Sept 20th at 7 pm, on the Plaza at the Hoover Public Library for an evening with River Jordan.

Her latest work is a nonfiction book titled, Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit.

The stories behind this work are the culmination of a New Year’s resolution during a dark time. As 2008 wound to a close, Jordan learned that her two sons were to be deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq after the New Year. As she worked to manage her own emotions and plan the “perfect” family holiday, she felt called to pray for a stranger every single day.

Join us to hear the stories of strangers and the powerful impact this one resolution had on the author's life.

Sales and signings to follow.

Spy Kids Training: Mission Complete

We had an unexpectedly large group (84!) of wannabe secret agents at our Spy Kids Training this past Monday, September 12, but that just made the fun even bigger. We started by creating official photo IDs using construction paper, the miracle of double-stick tape, and some high-tech from 1990: the Polaroid camera. Then we added official metal badges. We were now a room full of card-carrying secret agents. Next, we each placed our hands into a cup full of adjectives, then one containing nouns. The result: super funny code names, which we used to speak to each other all night. Here's a sampling:
1. Smelly Refrigerator
2. Brainy Sweater
3. Mushy Eagle

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