of it lee we liked michigan and said we are here to share our library which is actually your library that peters township public library with you and bring it right into your living room right and right up all right  last time i was kind of creepy but now we're kind of getting used to that right all right we just got over actually today the end of april it is and we are getting we're through now officially with our tons of books after today we did all of those programs we talked about last time the national library week i don't know if we talk about tons of books though so no that kind of just came i don't think we did but you can explain it yeah so over tons of books what we do is  national ever make and we have a scale in our library and every time you check out a book you come and you can weigh it on our scale and for many pounds of books when you check out you get a ticket for prizes russia begin to call them the winners the afternoon now it was posted on national public radio in it was on their web site april twenty fourth ok ok not so long ago no very very recent now i we're going to have to discuss this and see how it relates to us as well as our patrons ok ok now if you can see and let me read it and then i'll show it it's a book news happiness study says library trips are as good as a pay raise oh all right and i'm going to actually  a little part of it because i just found it to be so interesting and kind of funny yet i'm a disco going to the library gives people the same kick as getting a raise does and it actually gives a figure this report was done in england but in american dollars are saying it's getting a raise as two thousand two hundred eighty two dollars to be exact it says and it's according to a study commissioned by the u k s department for culture media and sport now it goes on to say that it's kind of looking at the ways cultural they consider it a course cultural cultural engagement the cultural gauge meant affects overall wellbeing in a concluded that if it significant association was found between frequent library use and reported wellbeing and they said the same was true of other things that you can do you know like dancing and swimming going to play and then they studied it further and this is this is that this is what you can help me figure out that there's a line you've been waiting for i have been waiting have you it says it's hard to tell people whether p happy people go to the most of our patrons are relatively happy people that come in the door happy yes actually sometimes they leave unhappy because they don't want to leave at least in our department we always joke to the guys that a day the kids always cry whenever they have to leave the library because they're having so much fun looking at their books and playing with their friends that they don't want to go home so it's on a more than once a week usually daily we have a child has to leave and i know i said that one of the grandmothers today that brought one of the toddlers to my toddler program when i walked in after it was so crowded it was like can i don't know what it was it was like plane land in there i get to watch where you walk but if you stand back and you look at  it it's wonderful they're having so much fine but i said that to the grandmother i said this is so wonderful that they love being here and she said well there is a child and they are there excited to come that they love the things that we do they love said it's a complement for i was a company so they don't want to leave so my summary before you move on here's my summary the people come in happy and they leave happy or and love that yes i love it ok all right so we've got th and they tend to read the same one i have the love you forever is kind of like a modern day class think about this little boy and his it really shows like a mother's love for her son and how i mean as he grows older she still wants to rock him to sleep in everything but that great big man was great big man was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth back and forth back and forth and while she rocked him she sang a love you forever a like you for always as long as i'm living my baby you'll be now miss lind i need to ask you you have a grown son i do he lives out of town you drive to his college and break into his dorm room and ro fifth here's the point with that i remember the first time that i read that book after having children and i cried like it was so touching now if you want to get literal about it ok maybe it's a little harder to understand but ok i look at at it more as like the circle of fly and the love that continue with and then some day well you hope sooner than some day when the love is all you know it just all comes around the merits are doing the mom is doing everything for the child and then it's time the child is now taking care of the mother so i don't give her all the title story i didn't make me cry you know like you know i like i said i have to read every single year we have to have more books about my mother's day that i could share with us next week thank you for mentioning i brought these a brand new actually let me say this one for a  i do the same thing i like to read the mother's day books america mother's day craft now and i do want to mention though and we'll get to this is that yes i have two children but you have two for each children as well at this point right yes i do have my my my for baby we don't talk about the dog i've got some words for you ok the first book i wanted to share it's called me and my mom this is brand new and the gist of it is my mom is so special in and i intend to read this next week great as one of my books but i'm going to show you this one ok and part of me wants to read it to you but it does but because i know that our moms out there i'm going to read it to them next week so i don't want them to know that's by i learned no spoiler things but i will tell you it is beautifully written it first came out in the u k was rewritten for us because it used to be called to do this is probably the sweetest book i've read in a long time very simple and sweet like not a ton of words and let me just give you their little summary when a little puppy tries to find the word that feels like a cuddle and  think about it a week later when i think about it because i just he was like so excited to show her the butter how did you just open that file you know i don't want you to keep can i just make a comment about that sure we have a butterfly display and all we and you can come in and you get to read to registered therapy dog and it's awesome whenever i go as a schools i always tell the kids about this too because you come in the library and it's so cool because there's dogs just lying like all over the library i know and that was l you know and then just pick up a book and i was like kids you can read a book in a library or in a book at home to really come for over a day and you want to with the drug you can bring that into and you get to read it to the dogs and even if you're still learning how to read or still working on it the docs don't care you know that dogs are the best listeners and that we have that's why i think this program so great because it really helps with you know developing letter c developing confidence or reading big big difference between reading to a dog that isn't really around dogs you know and if you don't have a family dog then you have you might have caution yeah about dogs and so these dogs are certified therapy dogs so they're you know they're safe and they're really great way to expose children to learning to to love an animal and to trust them animal yeah i agree love it love it love it love it all right so we're going to keep pas and let's see what else we have going on and they probably  please so we're kind of pasta reading i mean that you know every month actually you know can i just mention something go for it on his own anyway i see that i'm actually kind of a little bit impressed this is a little bit this works who taught you how to do challenges and actually this is an example of one i'll get in a bag full of random lego's and they have to build something using every single lego and i have to make sense so it does mine is some kind of vehicle so that it's a little bit weird looking you know just justify what it is or what you want it to be then that's fine by me so we do different stuff like that we've also had to build bridges out of lego's then we took our library books and stacked them on the bridges and then whoever's strongest and and it's been on display that's one thing we do i always look like so after they're done building at the end of the evening they get to choose their favorite piece to keep on display in the library we have it on top of our books all that is or yeah i think it's kind of built in maybe more probably about that i mean a case alone that it's an i mean the ship is amazing but it's made out of out of lego and the local patron and his grandfather worked on this ship together and it's built to scale it's not just a kit you go and that big dragon made out a lego yes and so this is what our minds i'm like oh my gosh really disney world it's so intricate too because you have to look at the little piece and as i was standing by there was another dad or another adult kind of looking at it and he was looking and he goes well those aren't like any kind of stopped himself in the middle of the sayings and i said no yeah they're all them everything has legs on there he was surprised he said well they missiles and every yeah he said well they didn't have those kind of pieces when he was building like those so that he was very surprised that like in this house for it like that little bush thing yeah anything more advanced that that that is like oh yeah yeah so it's amazing make sure we wind bring a picture of that but we thought you know what it's like just come alive and see it because there's a graph is not going to do it justice you know like i said it is so big and it's just it's a really cool thing to see it is like going to an amusement park and seeing a display i love it it's i like i know i well you know i feel sorry but lego talent that's true actually i am impressed because if you gave me well i'd like to think i'm smart enough to come up with something but you know all those pieces in a bag and have to come up with something and like you said you have to be able to justify it or whatever has to make sense and it has to make sense but i would be good justifying it somehow really really exist ok i want to show you something last time we talked about our book group y magic treehouse and my girls book group and mentioned you know some of the books that we were reading at the time and then what was coming up i took this picture i told you that when we were reading the book called wonder and it's a beautiful book  main character's name is augie and the reason i'm going to give you some background behind this picture is augie was born with he facial deformity and for the longest time until he was older he didn't go to school  school a public school so he was kind of and he was really into star wars he was into the character and home and all of that everything he would say who reminds him of what so he would go around and could take on all those you know attribute the roles and everything so when i was thinking about what i could do with the girls that would get that point across i came up with an idea to do a mask oh  i did was i put out the masks and i put out good no different things that they could decorate it with right to represent them you know to you know what i mean the so that if they were like auggie and wanted you know and felt the need to express themselves through a mask of what it would look like so this picture get it right is adorable and this is how they did it they're even holding the books up and if you can see it you know it they are there they did a girl a good job and they were so into it and when i asked them i don't always take a lot of pictures in there but what it was so cute how each one was different that when i asked book conversation let me just show you we are waiting for this month and we're actually going to meet next monday which is a week earlier than we usually do beholding be it is kimberly newton fosco it's i hope they like it you know sometimes they don't like the things that i pick out which is good they didn't like the one i had the last time it was yolanda's genius but i am like well yeah so  some books on a share i try to say up on the times i know you were going to you were thinking of you always want to know what's going on too with having a teenage daughter and i do always a movie yeah i was going to ask that because i find myself and i don't i don't think i made this comment last time but i find myself going through the why a books again i adult books and especially the new ones i want to see what's new because i have a teenage daughter and i like you said and she's reading these so i like to find out what's new in chile even asked me mom did you read all you know all of the hunger games did you write all of the twilight did you read you know because she keeps you know like me to keep up with that which is which is fun for me to be read real or looking for books that are coming out of the doing so many movies but i mention there was a woman in there with one time i mean there's a lot of people in there all the time but the  ok there was one person in there wants to know a woman that we were talking about it and she was looking through the young adult books and i think and days passed or years passed you would assume that they're picking it out for their child right not the case and not the case anymore she she was almost like seemed like she didn't know if she should be embarrassed about it or not about wanting to read these  and finding that she's enjoying a lot of the y e books and i told her i said oh everybody absolutely well that's funny and there is a statistic i don't know exactly what it is but something about how there there are so many more people that b a books than adults but by why a books themselves really for the one i want to share was this if i stay by gail foreman the reason i'm sharing it is because it is coming out as a movie this summer just like fault in our stars which just have the experience of being an sees you on the members love all that stuff and then the whole story does a big twist because she's in a car accident and he is in a coma oh but he is witnessing but now her spirit or whatever you want to call it is witnessing her family and this boy and all her friends are basic cares about it all the trauma that they're going through while being in a coma that she's kind of like doing like an out of body experience of a thing and so the a movie that was out several years ago with reese witherspoon it was like a chick flick it's called just like heaven yeah so for all the moms out there are whatever you've seen that this looks like a good a good story to some really excited too general to read this that format because being even the language is kind of more of that shakespearean style right so there's that i like that that sounds fun yeah those are good yeah we have a lot of good things going on and so yeah we are in we're just going to keep it