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Welcome to National Save Your Back Week and Pastoral Care Week, which honors clergy of all faiths. This is also Chicken Soup For the Laughing Soul Treat Week, which reinforces the idea that "laughter is the best medicine." People are encouraged to share heartwarming and humorous stories all week long!
Thursday is Mule Day, the anniversary of the first importation of Spanish jacks to the United States. Mules are said to have been first bred in this country by George Washington from a pair delivered in 1785.
Saturday is Make a Difference Day, and Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday morning at 2:00. Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour before you go to bed on Saturday night!
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and Saturday morning's 10:00 a.m. Halloween story times, participants will enjoy stories, felt boards, pop-ups, and crafts, all with a Halloween theme.
BOOK TALK
Children's Librarian Mary Stickford provides this week's book information. With Halloween drawing near, it's time to think of scary stories to tell in the dark. The Children's Area offers a variety of selections from the familiar and not-too-scary to bone-chilling tales.
With a focus on bones, here are some favorites. Remember the song "Dem Bones"? That is the title of a picture book by Bob Barner, which provides sprightly skeletons illustrating the song as well as formal names and definitions of bones of the human skeleton. "Bone Poems" by Jeff Moss offers more facts clothed in verse frequently focusing on dinosaurs.
Another classic is Arthur Robins' version of "The Teeny Tiny Woman," who finds a teeny tiny bone for her soup with trouble as a side dish. Caldecott Honor Book "The Amazing Bone" by William Steig provides the vocabulary-expanding tale of a porcine heroine and a talking bone who outwit a fiendish wolf. A wordless picture book by award winner Ed Young is "The Other Bone," a classic tale of greed demonstrated by a frolicking puppy.
Move up to the somewhat scary with "Boogie Bones" by Elizabeth Loredo. It is the tale of a skeleton who loves to dance and leaves the graveyard to compete in a dance contest. In Tony Johnston's "The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe," a series of odd circumstances leads to a femur traveling for a hundred years, during which the restless spirit of the rest of the skeleton haunts its former home. In "The Bone Man - a Native American Modoc Tale" by Laura Simms, a brave boy confronts the murderer of its owner, and in "The Singing Bones," the bone of murdered children sing of their slayer.
Among the best stories is "Bloody Bones" from "Raw Head, Bloody Bones-African-American Tales of the Supernatural." It is a cautionary tale demonstrating that loose tongues cause trouble. But the best of all is "The Bone Keeper" by Megan McDonald. A deceptively simple picture book for children, it will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. These are just a few of many, many titles ready to go home with you for a dark and scary night.
DID YOU KNOW?
According to University of Alabama researcher Gary Hunter, the average person loses five pounds of muscle every decade after the age of 45. A weight-training program designed to retain and build muscle mass can significantly increase strength - and muscle - within just 10 weeks.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "Plant a little gossip, and you'll reap a harvest of regret." (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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