I just don't think the instrument petting zoo would give one the same experience as petting a soft purry Jack-Jack. Hedgehog is giving a demonstration of the way our cat likes his chin scratched. From the bottom picture you can see he's not as fond of head scratching v. chin scratching. (When he really likes something he squints his eyes-it's very cute-and he starts a deep purr.)
Kudos though to Riverton Music for a clever idea that certainly caught the attention of our patrons. For more information about Riverton Music you can visit their website at: https://www.rivertonmusic.com/
For my fellow voters in Utah: please get your primary vote in by June 25th if you have a ballot. Here's a parody video to help educate the newer generations about suffrage, votes, and voting for women:
"I desire to resent in the name of honesty and justice the veiled intimidation and accusation regarding my vote on the Suffrage Amendment as indicated in certain statements, and it is my sincere belief that those responsible for their existence know that there is not a scintilla of truth in them. I want to state that I changed my vote in favor of ratification first because I believe in full suffrage as a right; second, I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify; third, I knew that a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification; fourth, I appreciated the fact that an opportunity such as seldom comes to a mortal man to free seventeen million women from political slavery was mine; fifth, I desired that my party in both State and nation might say that it was a republican from the East mountains of Tennessee, the purest Anglo-Saxon section in the world, who made national woman suffrage possible at this date, not for personal glory but for the glory of his party." Representative Harry T. Burns
In April we talked about the following books in the 560's to 580's section of the library:
Once Upon a Mastodon: All About Prehistoric Mammals by Worth
Cactus Hotel by Guiberson
Plants Can't Sit Still by Hirsch
Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Bang
Because of An Acorn by Schaefer
Dinosaur Tracks by Zoehfeld
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Roth
We had an ecosystem organization chart handout and bags of chips.
Then in the May book group we listened to the audio version of A Day In the Life of Marlon Bundo by Twiss and we discussed these other books about families:
Families, Families, Families by Lang
Nighty Night! by Wild
The Family Book by Parr
And Tango Makes Three by Richardson
I Love It When You Smile by McBratney
There are so many other wonderful family books-some other suggestions that I've received include the following titles: Zak's Safari, The Relatives Came, Owl Babies, Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?, One Big Family, Over the Moon, Froggy's Baby Sister, My Family Tree and Me, Two Is Enough, and many others.
Then in January 2018, we talked about happy books, which included the following titles and authors:
(again, if there are some that we talked about at the Jan. meeting and I didn't write it down, let me know and I'll add them-thanks!) :
books by Mo Willems
The Secret Pizza Party by Rubin
Jingle Jingle by Smee
Good Boy Fergus by Shannon
Ish by Reynolds
Yes Day! by Rosenthal
Woodpecker Wants a Waffle by Breen
books by Karma Wilson
100 Things That Make Me Happy by Schwartz
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Fishman
And, on the note of humorous things, this is what happens when most people don't let the library staff know that the receipt printer is turned off and finally someone does! We generate a lot of book reminder receipts at just one station! (This is at a checkout station that is used infrequently through the day and yes, these are receipts from just part of one day. I glad to say our library sees a lot of usage from programs to computer use to people actually checking out physical materials.)
