A Funny Thing Happened on the Bookmobile

Something to make you smile. More to come!

For some reason, many of the children in the neighborhood believed that the bookmobile staff lived in the bookmobile. They saw it going to a stop on another day and told their parents "Look they are going to buy groceries!". On a similar note, we had to close the bookmobile down for about a month to have some serious body work done, the children became very concerned that the driver's had been put in jail for speeding (I don't think you could speed in our bookmobile even if you wanted to!).

One bookmobiler told me that with their swivel seats (facing toward the back of the bookmobile) a child asked them how did they drive the unit backwards!!

1.) Most children call us Miss .... or "teacher" if they can't remember our names. I had one preschool boy call me "Library Girl"! (a previously unknown superhero!)
2.) Claudia Zimmerman will appreciate this one!...I had an Amish boy ask me for, what I thought was, "horrors and spooks". Our Amish patrons don't normally read books about ghosts/supernatural, but I happily began showing him various scary and ghost books. He looked at everything I showed him but was non-committal. Finally my volunteer said, "I think he wants horses books!" I still chuckle when I think about that one.
3.) Along those same lines, a boy asked me for "Ricky Ricardo". An unusual request so I said, "You mean like Ricky from I Love Lucy?" He shook his head, "No, Ricky Ricardo". Stumped, I pulled out my Children's Books In Print reference and began to look up Ricky...Aha! "Ricky Ricotta" by Dav Pilkey!

Massillon, Ohio Holiday Parade

This is the Massillon Public Library bookmobile from Massillon, Ohio in our holiday parade November 17. The scrolling sign read "Your library...a gift all year". Each sign hanging from the garland listed a library service. Decorating was simplified because we had OBS install stainless steel hooks at intervals on the sides of the bus.