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Welcome to American Education Week, National Geography Awareness Week, and
National Children's Book Week. Today is Homemade Bread Day, and Wednesday is Mickey
Mouse's 70th birthday! Thursday is Have a Bad Day Day, and Saturday is World Hello Day
(greet at least 10 people with a friendly smile and "hello.")
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. "ABC" storytimes feature pop-ups, big books, and an alphabet craft. Saturday morning's 10:00 storytime features travel stories to fit the theme "Books Go Everywhere," and participants will make a trip journal.
BOOK TALK
Librarian Barbara Harris provides this week's book information. The Roswell Public Library can offer an escape from political pundits and holiday hype: we have recently acquired the Oxford University Press edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original text and illustrations of the books, an introduction by a contemporary author, and an afterword by a Twain scholar.
With lucid wit and precise language, Twain exposed every human foible of his time and ours. Having his complete works available enables us to share not only the chagrin of the good citizens of Hadleyburg and the rowdy good spirits of the California gold camps, but also the lot of the people of the European and American colonies and the privileged class of the Guilded Age. The problems he saw a hundred years ago still haunt us.
Check out an old favorite or a new discovery and find out how Mark Twain changed forever the way that we think about America and American literature.
DID YOU KNOW?
Just for fun, here are some words that don't exist, but should, courtesy of the Lakeshore, Wisconsin, Library system.
"Aquadextrous," (ak.wa.deks.trus) adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on with your toes. "Carperpetuation," (kar.pur.pet.u.a.shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over, picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance. "Disconfect," (dis.kon.fekt) v. To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow remove all the germs. "Elbonics," (el.bon.iks) n. The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater. "Frust," (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept into the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.
"Lactomangulation," (lak.to.man.guy.lay.shun) n. Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the "illegal" side. "Peppier," (peph.ee.ay) n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want fresh ground pepper. "Phonesia," (fo.nee.zhuh) n. The affliction of dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer. "Pupkus," (pup.kus) n. The moist residue left on a window after a dog presses its nose on it. "Telecrastination," (tel.e.kras.tin.ay.shun) n. The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." (Clarence Day)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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