SUSAN LOESCH
CATS IN THE STACKS

Ahhhh! Being a winner. It is a hard job but somebody has to do it!

We are so proud of Alex who placed fourth in the Bissell Most Valuable Pet Contest for the first week’s competition! We thank everyone for voting and hope you will keep your fingers crossed as he goes to the finals after the weekly contests have ended.

Alex is enjoying all the extra attention that goes with his honor. As soon as we emailed staff and students that he was in the top 5 he began getting congratulations! (more…)

SUSAN LOESCH

CATS IN THE STACKS

There’s nothing like a good story to end the week! My 5th and 6th graders came for their weekly library time and we stuck to our rule of “Books before cats!” We did a library skills lesson on the online catalog and ways we can use it to search, and the students got their books chosen and checked out.

They then reminded me that I’d said I’d read a book to them, a new one to our library. It is called Ham the Astrochimp, by Richard Hilliard and is about Ham, the chimpanzee who was America’s very first “space pioneer.” The book was a gift from a real “rocket scientist” with NASA, the daughter of one of our teachers.

As we headed toward the bean bags, Makayla asked, “Can Alex listen with us?” (more…)

SUSAN LOESCH

CATS IN THE STACKS

Today has been one of mixed emotions here in the Library.

Alex is holding on to 4th place in the Bissell Most Valuable Pet contest, among over 3400 entries. We are excited but know that in the last 24 hours of voting anything can happen. We need as many votes as we can get to stay in the top 5 and make the finals, so if you haven’t voted for him we’d love it if you did. To vote, click here.

On a sad note, our 5th and 6th graders gathered in the library to hear that our sweet little Siamese kitten, SnuggleBunny, has lost her fight with feline leukemia. These two classes had claimed her as their own special library cat, knowing full well that her life would be short.

“SnuggleBunny has died,” I told them, and went on to thank them for the very special thing they chose to do for her. (more…)