Top o' the morning to you on this Happy St. Patrick's Day! Thursday is Absolutely Incredible Kid Day. Camp Fire Boys and Girls encourages adults to write a letter to the children they know to tell the children how special they are and how much they mean to them.
    Saturday is Flower Day, and everyone is encouraged to give or display flowers or plants in their communities. Each state will honor the state flower at its capital. Any one know New Mexico's state flower? The answer appears later in the column.
    Sunday is As Young As You Feel Day, which encourages us to stop acting our chronological ages and get out there and start feeling peppy! Fortunately, Sunday is also International Goof-Off Day, a day of relaxation and a time to enjoy some good-humored fun and some good-natured silliness!

WHAT'S HAPPENING?
    It's "think pink" with stories about flamingos at Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. storytimes. Participants will also make flying flamingos. Take a trip to Egypt at Saturday's 10:00 a.m. storytime and make a pyramid and a jeweled crocodile.

BOOK TALK
    Children's Librarian Mary Stickford provides this week's book information. Spring is in the air! Given the speed with which it passes in Roswell, you better take full advantage of the season.
    Among the many books in the Children's Area to help you celebrate spring are "Batboy: An Inside Look at Spring Training," "Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems" (which is in English and Spanish), "Spring Science Projects," and a craft book by Thomson entitled "Spring."
    There are also several titles helpful in planning activities for church youth, including "Make Your Own Worship Bulletins for Spring and Summer," "Christian Celebrations for Spring and Summer: Ages 7-12," and "Christian Parties for Spring and Summer."
    Whether you want Haiku, suggestions for nature walks, science fun, or other spring activities, your Roswell Public Library has something for you!

DID YOU KNOW?
    We really need to give credit to the librarians around the world who help us to find just what we're looking for - even if we don't know what we're looking for! The following is a list of "butchered" book titles actually requested from patrons and the book they really wanted. These are provided by real librarians from the Fiction_L listserv.
The requested "Salad at a Bad Café" was actually "Ballad of the Sad Café"; "Satanic Nurses" was "Satanic Verses"; "Too Short to Live" by Mickey Rooney was "Life Is Too Short" by Mickey Rooney; "Lesee Moon" by William Prarie was "PrairyErth" by William Least Heat Moon; "I Left My Heart at Broken Arm" was "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"; "Tequila Mockingbird" was "To Kill a Mockingbird"; "Women Who Dance with Wolves" was really "Women Who Run with the Wolves" and "Dances with Wolves"; "The book about all those dead cowboys by Dana Kubler Ross" turned out to be various westerns by Dana Fuller Ross; and "Mice Are Gay" ended up as "My Sergei" by ice skating star Ekaterina Gordeeva.    
    As promised, here's the answer to the state flower question. New Mexico's state flower is the yucca!

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
    "Those who misbehave should remember that eventually they will get what is coming to them. Time wounds all heels." (unknown)   

JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276

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