Insert double entendre here

Something something...wow, this book was so good?

I don't know.

We have this little game we play at work. It's called "Blood or Chocolate?" If you work in a library, you probably play a similar game. Basically, you get a book with stains on the pages and have to guess...bodily fluid? Or food?

In this episode of "Blood or Chocolate," my coworker came over to me, held out a book, and said, "uh...you have to look at this. Tell me what you think it is."

Part of me wishes I had taken a picture. Alas, I didn't, so a word picture will have to do. The book was a romance novel, and at the bottom of the page, right about where you would grab to turn to the next page, was a fingerprint-sized, slightly raised, crusty white oval.

Blood or chocolate, guys? Bodily fluid or food?

I recently offered an escape room at our library, and one of the things you have to find in order to escape is a black light. Since we had said black light available, we decide hey, why leave this to a guess? We have the tools here to either confirm or disprove, to a reasonable level anyway, our darkest fear.

We trooped over to the supply closet to retrieve the black light. Found a dark-ish area. Winced as we shone the light on the page...and it glowed.

It was cum, you guys.

I may wash, but I will never be clean.

Flannelboards for Bookworks

We have a preschool coming into the library next week for a tour followed by a storytime, and I get to fill in since the staff member who usually conducts tours will be on vacation!  Said staff member kindly shared her plans with me, and one of the rhymes she was planning on using was this one:

Bookworm, Bookworm

Bookworm, bookworm, where do you hide?

Is it the [color] book that you're inside?

It's simple and cute...the kids call out colors one by one until you finally get to the last book, the one our bookworm is hiding in.  All the preschoolers get into it, trying to guess which book has the worm, and it's an adorable thing to behold.

It got even more adorable when I made my own flannel set to use!

Looking at them now, I'm kind of regretting covering so much of the colored cover with the white for the book's pages...but it's a small group of kids, so they'll be close enough to see the colors, and if it's a problem I can always trim down the pages before I use them again.

As a bonus, my coworker also recommended this bookish version of "If You're Happy and You Know It," which I modified a bit. It seems like I end up using a re-imagining of that song in every storytime I do...that makes me happy (and I know it!).

If You're a Reader and You Know It

If you're a reader and you know it, clap your hands

If you're a reader and you know it, clap your hands

If you're a reader and you know it, then your books will surely show it

If you're a reader and you know it, clap your hands!

*say, "shh, I'm reading!"

*shout, "hooray!"

*do all three

Last time I got to do a storytime with this group, they were really into all our singing, so I'm hoping the kids will love this song as much as I do.

Happy reading, readers!