close of your employment  trial and it came out of the american library's magazine in january february edition ok so it's hot off the press but i found it interesting because they are popping up all over the place you ok so interesting do you think here's the question do you think they compete with libraries do you think that the little free libraries as there's a whole bunch it's going to take away it's going to be a liar no i don't think so i think it's just more of making a connection to the public library good answer good answer right and i didn't even you know prompt you ira there is something i didn't know about this too that i don't know if you knew little free libraries have been popping up and drove on front lawn street corners in parks community centers and hospitals you can even find them at beaches malls and barber shops what started in two thousand and nine with a box on one man's lawn has spawned sixty thousand little free libraries around the globe which is really cool so when we talk about news around sixty thousand is not that huge number so i feel like i was really special to be a part of that it is a lot yeah but not a lot of you think the whole globe true yeah true i think this will even touch this even talks about some of the places but that's true you're very right you were part of that little see that little trend trend that little niche there well now how about this this these boxes little free libraries outnumber public libraries in the ok this was really cool but they have like fifteen books and as opposed to how many thousands we have in our library right right so that everybody was getting concerned like oh then why don't we why do we need libraries as well because  lawn was crowded with children she thought there must be some mistake did the bus get moved but in the yard next door the kids were gathered around a wooden box in the front yard a little free library while the bus driver helped each child pick out a title to take home was a ritual they repeated every friday for almost a year and how bad it's all you know that he would be he or she the driver would be in tune to that  this was a sad statistic a lot of this was all like started in michigan mostly detroit and what they wanted to do was because it was so high that thirty five percent of detroit's residents were living in below the prop poverty line so in this one small city bordering detroit as an example there is this so that's like having nothing so with the city was climbing out of bankruptcy and they were starting the you know to raise money and they wanted the free libraries to pop up all over so they did this initiative in detroit because they needed it and also they did it as a positive thing for the community to feel good because because of the auto industry detroit took such a big hit  left a lot in poverty so is the public library still relevant yes ok i agree public libraries are serious business and life lines for a lot of underserved communities yes we have everything that you're not to be able to fit into a little free library but i agree with how you set it is that it's an extension of the live extension of libraries and i'll tell you in these places that i was reading about there's talking about in north dakota you know they just secured money to buy thirteen little free libraries throughout the city and where else oh that place in kansas because there's this one place salina salina kansas it's very rural so they have access to reading material to these three little libraries in between their book mo field visits so these i mean these are talking to people that really don't have access to a library and i like to they made a comment about and for kids that can't drive and they don't have a means to get the lot to the library unless an adult brings up but what i didn't know did you know that this was a business people make them and sell them on the love site there was a man that actually started this in two thousand and nine he built for the one in salt it is front lawn in wisconsin as a tribute to his late mother and now there are more than sixty thousand little free libraries registered worldwide up from fifty thousand last year with ninety thousand with now this is a dagger ninety thousand of them are located in the u s only ten percent are around the world yeah that's very small but there were some there was some question i guess that you know they charge you know if you want to be a part of the free do to charge to get a charter yeah you sure they charge to have it registered and then if you buy the box through them it's a few hundred dollars thirty nine dollars to register but you do get a charter number you have like you would say your street name and write could go and which is cole you know you get to be part of that because they also add there are more than six hundred public libraries around the country just in our country that use little free libraries as an extension of their services and that's great and i'm going to end with one little thought this woman wrote she said you know talking about books and the importance of literacy and reading she said i think anything where you have a book is a library the more we have out there the better i don't think we're going to put the library out of business by any means i see them as helping out the libraries and i'm very glad they came along so that's nice i really enjoyed having one of our old house i consider having one of our new one but we'll just see how that all plays out but they are there it was cool yeah it was cool i'd look at window and see like a mom and  kids and the dog stopping and getting something and mine was mostly used by kids although i had an equal amount of children's books and adult books in there by the kids in my neighborhood yeah and then once i realized that and realize what they liked i kind of made sure i had books like that yeah those kids so it's cool that is cool so i'm glad to know that even with your the one that you used to have that you're not get knocking us out of a job well that's good yeah we want job security now but i like them and they're fun i mean we've we've talked about them before and here because i showed like different pictures because now suddenly they get really creative with you know you're really cool so all right we love our free little library sure all right so moving on  oil and water and why they do not mix but it's called spark science or tweens and is going to be the third thursday of every month from now until the end of the school year so the next coming on will be february fifteenth at four o'clock so a lot of fun really hands on science class and again it's all done by the high school science lab and they were so impressive like i learned stuff by just watching them so that's really good yeah you did i mean you taught you were so impressed and happy with it you talked about it like to me you were telling me right after how good it was and what you've learned and how great the students it was awesome there's an impressive sos shout out to those girls that came in january to get started what  inspiration like just inspiring young students they all want to go into careers involving science in some way and just great asset to our community to be a to work with these these wonderful teenagers right along those lines i just wonder was just thinking about a comment about that because you were talking about you know how great they are i think that well i know and because you can watch it that kids younger kids becom awe of the older kids especially the high school kids like they go you know you would think that you know that they're a movie star which is really cool because i think they will kids don't realize that right that people are role teens coming in and sharing what they know what they can do with their kids because the kids love it though love it more from them than from us for sure and it's really good it's a good experience for the somehow bring to the library you know we're going to as that's all the school started over the summer the girls the showed up one day and they said we're in the science club a really want to do something of a library and i said ok and then after we had a couple meetings throughout the beginning of the school year and trying to scare the worked out that's what we started in january but it's so far it's been awesome i hope it continues to grow for a boy or i agree and you know what that made me think of you know how we have mr peet as our chests yes champion teacher and he comes once a month unless something comes up for him teaches the kids i think before i found him i contacted the the chess club here you know to to do what you're doing with this science like i would love if members of the chess club not a great commitment once a month you know come in for an hour and sit with the kids and play chess with them and teach them you know that i heard there are some really good little ones that i like this you know i was reading in between here a little bit about why matt phelan came up with this story it's a it takes place during the dust bowl in one thousand nine hundred thirty seven in kansas eleven year old jack still faces life's ordinary challenges town bullies a sister with an eye for trouble in his father's failed expectations with tensions flaring in the rising he jack catches a glimpse of a sinister figure which is really cool and here with a face like rain in a neighbor's abandoned barn yeah creepy that's kind of what prompted him to start writing this book because all the sudden he had he had drawn this figure you know and then it of worked around that although so it's all around the dust bowl but his point in this was he wanted to show kids life the dustbowl through the eyes of a kid so it's not about the dust but what's not going to give you statistics it doesn't give you all the information but how kids survived it what they were doing it and what i didn't realize too is that this was his first graphic novel now this is only the second graphic novel that i've done for the book group i love it the other one that i did and i really liked it the first and only one i did was a roll roller girl and i really like that  maker mondays now we're throwing in the class so pretty much we have you know and we also do tween craft in the first tuesday of the month so we always have something going on throughout the month of fun you know come to the library every day after school or even  which is really stupid by the way anyway we are having a valentine's party and i call it valentine's it's x and story time so kisses and hugs and we are going to make  couple of crafts i'm going to do to valentine's crafts with them and valentine's story of course a valentine probably song or some sort of other activity maybe a snippet of a video it's not really that long a time so it's six thirty usually goes to about seven fifteen so even on a school night it's taking up right it's not late and it's a family activity it's not like a drop off and leave right it's a family act of all ages so also billings and nights in march april may june through the the year easter and like they're going to be like i mean it's really one week after the other that's going to be crazy this year yeah and you know all the stuff that we do we're going to be yeah we'll be busy yes son busy you know but stuff but keeps us  program with the library for it and we did and that what started this whole partnership that we have with them and we do so many things now because of w q you know it's awesome that one program like that off so we do it every year  really come in and we're going to do some different little writing activities and ideas share with the kids story previous winners and they're all with school and when you get to go down to the e q you studio downtown and record your story and then anyone's able to see that and then they also print an anthology of all of the stories that have won in the past year we actually have a bound copy at the library that was cool with lester the first year they yeah that and because you could mean we had t published peter such a clever cookbook if you want one we probably can find some for you yeah that's right that's such a great thing so that will be on sunday the twenty fifth at one thirty so come on out and do some fun writing things if you don't think even like to write you'd be surprised how fun writing can really be so it's really a lot of it's fun it's a really fun event we do it every year so last year was really well attended we're hoping continues that way so you know the the older i get and i  back when on the writing piece of this this contest and this project you know writing is so important and how many people are not able to do that  a not literally but you know to be able to express themselves or write a  i to be able you know to put your words out there right so this program is always an argument right how creative young children really hard is it starts in kindergarten right you know that's insane to me that these kindergartners are coming up with these really detailed stories in our winter that we had our local winner she was in third grade when she won but still like super detail would like the story just like you know just like you never really even know that they're written but i had some time  right so it's amazes me their ideas and how creative they are for sure and you know what i think what helps too because i was just thinking of our little buddy geno that comes and you know he's got brothers and they come into the library and he's he just finished his second book and every time he finishes a book he his mom brings that to me and he brings it and he's like all shy about it for me to look through and read and then i'll write like cute little comments you know on little sticky things and you know and i credit the parents for that as row because you need you need not necessarily a role model in the writing but at least encouragement yes you know it's just a current your courage  about the theme of love i decided bring some fun cutesy romances this one's called love life and the list by the west says seventeen year old abby turner's summer which i like to read a book about summer in the middle of winter doesn't go in the way she'd planned she had a not so secret by definitely requited crush on her best friend cooper she hasn't been able to manage her mother's growing issues with things id and now she's been rejected from an art show because her work has no as she gets another opportunity to show her paintings abbie isn't going to take any other chances which is where the list comes in so she makes us less she was herself one month to do ten things ranging from face of fear which is number three to learn a stranger's story to fall in love she knows that if she can complete the list she'll become the kind of artist she's always dreamed of being but as the deadline approaches i realize is that getting through the list isn't as straightforward as it seems and that maybe just maybe she can't change her art if she isn't first willing to change herself so i like that it's about an artist and that's really cool i'm a big list maker myself yeah and both wanted to do less and in life i member when i was fifteen i saved it i made a list of thirty things to do before i'm thirty and i did not do them all it's kind of like having a bucket list that was a bucket list but i thought yeah i would pick and i did do a good bit of them and the ones that i and i haven't been to paris i vote but i want to go to paris before i was thirty and i didn't get to that so maybe before my next thirty years all i'll get to maybe you know as as we do books maybe a little revision there you know  and paris rosenthal and you were talking at the book you know at the very end where they said that you know she needs to change herself you know and maybe look into her heart this story is so sweet written for girls because i girl sometimes you just need a good cry and that the truth sometimes will need a friend sometimes you need to be alone sometimes you need a tissue sometimes still need a bug oh a lesson from hopefully not too many of the buckets dear girl do you know that there is no such thing as asking too many questions who what when where why how how dear girl write it down your thoughts one very down your thoughts once in a while even if it's just to enjoy the way your pen feels against the paper look at that yeah it looks like written all over the walls very cool dear girl sense of wonder perfect friends people make the world go around dear girls create tradition fun crazy handshakes and silly inside jokes dear girls in your instinct is telling you to say no