Read Across America and WRAD14 "Read It Forward"

For World Read Aloud Day 2014, this is my week four post. I am very behind in my blog posting due to spring break and very busy with pet sitting, planning for digital citizenship lessons, and on and on and on!

Anyway, the final post for WRAD was to be a video of yourself reading aloud. Well, I am very self-conscience about being video-taped, but I did it. Then I accidentally ;0) deleted the video. So, here is a picture of me on WRAD 2014 reading aloud a book from one of my favorite series for young girlies, Silverlicious! I dressed as Pinkalicious that day at school and had a blast reading to many littles during the day. I chose to read Silverlicious because I knew that I was going to dress as Pinkalicious, the main character, that day.

I love to dress up, and so for every day we were in school that week (Sadly, only 3 days.), I dressed up as a book character! I've included pictures below of all of my fun costumes. 

Fly Guy!

 

Kids and adults alike love to try and figure out who I am dressing as when I decide to do it. I think it adds to the story as I am reading and it makes people laugh and be entertained. I did get some funny looks driving to and from work!



Miss Viola Swamp

The two days I didn't dress up, my costumes were to be of Harriet the Spy and Amelia Bedelia. I will just have to save them for another time! I hope you enjoy my pictures. If you like to dress up as book characters, please tell me about it in the comments below!
 

Shelving- the bane of a librarian's existence

Every day in our library, my library assistant and I check in and out an average of 300 or so books in the library. It doesn't occur to many people what happens to those books after they return them. I'll tell you: they stack up! On my lucky days, I have a most wonderful assistant who does the work of the "magical shelving fairy" and puts all those books back in their cozy little spots on the shelves. No! Book characters don't climb out of the books and drag their bound volumes across the expanse of carpet and place themselves between their shelf mates. Library fairies do that! It is the most thankless and least thought of job in any library.

I visit my local public library about once a month for various reasons and I've seen those fairies there, too. Pushing heavy carts full of picture books, adventures, mysteries, poetry, and thick novels bound for their proper place among the tomes. To these volunteers and employees, and especially to my assistant: I give a humble THANK YOU for a well done job. Your fairy wings and magic wand are deserved and we librarians and library patrons are grateful.