book library i miss shannon and i miss linda and we are back once again to fill you in on what's happening in march if the children sparkman and the white department yes and we have a full month oh my goodness we have we're not over and i you probably can't tell on the screen but i really want it to have my favorite daughter says quote it says you're never too old to walk or too wild to pick a book up and read to a child and that's such a great message actually it is on my desk and our office we'll talk more about that and her only wearing these shirts throughout march to just show our love for dr seuss because he's such a staple for children's literature i think so yeah i might have heard of him yeah i may or may not be a or may not have known maybe one or two of his books right ok right let's see what's going on i'm glad that you brought that up because we talked about dr seuss a little bit last time and so we're going to talk a little bit more this time but i also wanted to go into the read across america the the initiative by the national education association they're the ones that started the read across america and they made the decision to celebrate it on march second on dr seuss's birthday so it of when it started i thought what is the background i really did i looked up the background on this read across america and it started in one nine hundred ninety seven with just a small little task force that wanted to celebrate reading and they said you know  their thought was we hold pep rally's for like football games so let's do something like that to get kids excited about reading so that they call it the n e a s read across america and they wanted to celebrate it on dr seuss's birthday ok in ninety seven they talked about it so march second of ninety eight was actually the first one and it was the largest celebration of reading this country has ever seen and if it was then back in ninety eight imagine right now it's huge everybody's doing words and everything so that's how it started it's totally non profit there are so many people involved with it now that said that's coming up well that's the first week of march which  by the time this is aired would have passed right but i thought it was still worth bringing up again because they learned some more things about dr seuss feo guys old theodore seuss guys old and you know what i like we talked about or you brought up some things last time that he was born in one thousand nine hundred four in springfield massachusetts and when i went to massachusetts in the fall right i was there at his museum and you could see the characters in that garden work like he would be an l s d was an illustrator a cartoonist for like vanity fair and life and other public cations but then he started becoming a political cartoonist and then he published he did work for  during the war he made short films during world war two he worked in the animation department of the united states army where he produced several short films including design for death which later won the one nine hundred forty seven academy award for documentary feature well in that crazy yes ok do you know and i didn't remember this because he's written so many books what was his first published children's book to think i saw them all very strong yep that's it and to think i saw it on mulberry street one hundred thirty seven thirty four ok so that's very close then after the war with the war was over that's when he focused on the children's book and one nine hundred fifty if i ran the zoo how do you not love these how the grinch stole christmas in fifty seven and of course we talked this last time my favorite green eggs and ham in one nine hundred sixty published over sixty books storing his career which is which is well you know how men like how many of his i mean probably almost all of his stories have been made into cartoon so all of a hundred of them have it there are at least this last one and they don't think there's been another remake or a  movie made but a live action movie is done two yeah well that's what i would talk about there's only four films that were based on his books that were made for films features yep that i'm first into a cartoon but it wasn't full and i'm surprised and i think it's big maybe because of you know the prices and how things change you know the lorax what was the largest grossing movie the next one was how the grinch stole some out he likes the cartoon grange really well i always like the cartoon grinch when it first came out when they start changing things like that you know and i just go i'm a traditionalist you know like i i love love love love love the cartoon right but as i got used to jim carrey i thought he did when you know when he's like eating a raw onion i'm just at home i stare i think well because he's an amazing talent like what he could do with that character so then of course you know he  dr seuss was he lived in la jolla california a nice place to live not far from my sister and you know what this was a sad thing i don't know where i solved it he died he died of cancer he died of or cancer on september twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred one at his home in la jolla the age of eighty seven he was in case inquiring minds want to know he was cremated and his ashes were scattered and he does not it doesn't have the room or on it partnered with us and offered us all of her artwork and everything first time to pittsburgh i'm so excited i'm i'm very excited we're going have a lot of fun with her and she's extent just beside herself looking forward to it is going to be i promised her dinner up on mt washington to overlook pittsburgh that's what she wants to do before she leaves saturday nice and says she wants to see pittsburgh which are better placed to take somebody that's never been to pittsburgh than up on  yeah i'm really looking i don't know we deserve a huge crowd for her yes really show or peters township in the area but we're like if you want to meet an author and you know this is even a great program for our teenagers out there that are interested in going into writing and journalism or art art illustrating because she probably because she has you know as much time as she wants for this program will probably show how she illustrates as well and how she you know get yeah i would love to learn that so if anybody learns that and you publish a book because if it remember what you heard it here first that's right it will be your number one movie and ok so moving on i believe that we are saying this but lot is going to be the first two mondays in april and we have no as i am going into the end of march and i can't believe that we're thinking about easter ready but we are and so that program is huge the bunny does come but space is have x amount to higgs in the town and the library so i'll sign up in door it is indoors yes so no weather is not an issue and then you can get your eggs and meet the money and make sure you call or  not because we do fill it and then we have to we do have ten people would ask so that's why we do two of them because years and years ago we used to only do one then it got so huge that i broke it up into two and then even the two were huge verizon easter eggs would be constant so if there are monday evenings cause that's what works out for the programming at the library and not conflicting with anybody else do you know how like how many eggs we go through the hundreds of  yeah yeah so we'll go through about two thousand eggs with the easter egg hunt so it's a lot of fun yes it is i can't believe it's here already a very first two mondays and april in the evening monday evening so everybody can participate yes but also really quick note i want to make that i want to talk about is the reason why april so so busy is we have a this is good that we have a big that's called by name king money it's a quality exhibit that will take up the whole body of the whole lobby of our library it's interactive talks about financial literacy was some really fun characters and so you can come into the library anytime through the month of april and see this and engage in it and go through the exhibit on your own but then we're also going to do in programs almost every day and yeah it'll be something that will kind of tie into this so a lot of stuff going on with with financial literacy geared towards trains and tweens we're also doing stuff with the younger ones right yeah i was going to say that because that really you know we're here with a high school students that it really is geared towards th school although maybe they should be i don't know but like this so this is a really great way for all students to kind of get a better grasp on how but in a fun way like i'm going all the way like a classroom kind of setting so it's going to down and i gave money right so fun way to but people are to me going to program you a chance to win some really awesome prizes that we're going to put together for you so keep april open because lots of fun in the library and coming in april you know it's only march so march those jack rabinovitch that's coming up in  exactly exactly and we have been talking about her this is like the third month we've been talking i mean you can't talk enough i know and then after she's gone we're going to like was not so much trouble then but yeah then we'll be talking about it for three months afterwards or like what a blast she is and how much fun right but she's been so good to us i want to be good back to her you know she has been so that would be good oh if so then we move on now in february we did not have march so very cool yeah i know we get calls and you've been missing it and he is pete is a chess champion yeah so you know teaching chess to the to anybody who wants to forgot to bring the actual dates for it but will have different tech things going on will do a lot some of you will do something with scratch and then for our book club that month we'll be talking about the book by james which many of our teens are gamers and like most gamers he spends most time in virtual net which is that actual than in the actual world virtue offers total mind and body immersion and it's addictive thanks t technology anyone enough money can experience fantasy worlds for us their life without the chance of death or just hang around was very trends and the more hacking skills you have the more fun why bother following the rules when most of them are done anyway but  reasons some technology is too dangerous to fool with and recent reports claim that one gamer is going beyond what any gamer has done before he's holding players hostage inside the virtue net who the effects are horrific the hostages have been all been declared brain dead yet the gamers motives are a mystery so this is about a kid who gets stunts in a virtual reality kind of world and then it ends up being more like a reality because they're kind of like jack and there  very well i mean imagine nation i know and it isn't just a bit think about all those techie things involved in virtual reality in the gaming world too you know to write about it because that's more something you just see as opposed to being able to write about it you know book are there more than one out in the series yes there are ok because sometimes like i brought one it's going to be the first of no i think there's that are already out there's two more out a my gosh it's such a beautiful picture book i don't know if it's going to show up very well it's called the lines on nanas face it is  n i don't know how to pronounce her last names looks italian is owed hard to pronounce for me but and regardless it is such a beautiful story it's very simple in the neat thing is that you've got the look of the grandchild and she's with her nana and she starts pointing to lines on the on his face and shoulder you know she'll say like what was this one what's this one you know  her at the very end she says indiana do you remember the first time you saw me and i'll show you the pictures i don't know if it'll be it'll go away or in the light ok anyway so that's the things so she's asked do you remember the first time you saw me and she point up points to a line like give you again i don't last mile from ear to ear like how deep that would be yes and that is right here and she points to that smile line that's it's so cool and she does she points to every line of like you know when she was surprised or when she you know the the lines that you get for different emotions and it's interesting it was yeah it is very interesting and just the way it ends you know that smile line that was never the first time you saw me yeah  books where we want to make sure the target audience will see it so we have it in both locations but it's about a girl who's obviously short and she spends a lot of time looking up but please don't call her short shoes boycott in the word and she's done a lot to boycott heartwarming joyous story of self discovery and the role models who forever changes such as a great book encountered by sevens as another one of yes phenomenon a kind of a summons i would not say is funny oh no it's a very serious story however it's  does go through a crazy horrible tragedy and how she kind of overcomes that and who she becomes that's a good one too but very short knew by holly gold and goldberg sloane so we are fans of her at the library yes we are short or not short and you know what that when you said the wizard of oz with the munchkins and i thought oh yeah when i was in grade school we did the hometown that i lived in had their own little community theater and they were doing the wizard of oz and i was so nervous i thought oh my gosh even when i was you know young that i was going to get definitely get cast as a munchkin and i didn't my sister did that i wasn't happy but this is this is amy's first book first children's book she wrote an adult book that became very famous called a cup of tea and so i want to read you the the little blurb about it in see if you if this remind you of it if if a book comes to mind another book which probably will castle oh it's i'm sorry the castle in the mist and it says unlock the secrets  but this is what caught this is kind of what enticed me to trust in her brother max are sent for the summer to their aunt sleepy village in the english countryside so when test stumbles upon the an old brass key that unlocks an o gate she jumps at the chance for adventure beyond that gate she finds rose gardens a maze made of hedges and a boy named william who is just as lonely as she is but strange things begin to happen and carnival rides are paid for  and wishes dreams seem to come alive and then there's williams eerie warning be where the hawthorn trees are warning the chills test to the bone in a novel reminiscent of half magic and this is what the next one that reminded me of the secret garden does that remind you of that so i was thinking to internet of narnia because of how she gets there she's visiting somebody and goes through like a secret yeah goes to get into that conjures magical fantasy world that blurs the line between reality and imagination and makes readers wonder exactly what they'd wish for this is coal so you'd wonder what you wish for if wishes could come true very quiet about that but i notice when you're talking about it which i think is funny so look who the author is like you know only an author will say something about a book and the right author that did it was holy goldberg sloan who is the o book club discussion i know would be think about it yeah i love the idea of that as a discussion you'd have to think about it because sometimes you know you read the books or the things and says be careful what you wish for you know or what you ask for what you  n sometimes you know things can happen that you really didn't want to happen necessary yeah so ok well i'm going to think up what i wish for i don't know i don't know i don't really know if i wish for anything i'm happy ok let's go you know but i could come up with something to give me time now are i give me time so by next time i have something that maybe we can talk about ok you have anything you'd wish