SUSAN LOESCH

CATS IN THE STACKS

Sometimes it is good to sit back and just listen to what my students have to say. Markissha was one of my sixth graders this year, but she and I go back a long way, to when she was a little kindergartner. She is often quiet, but when she speaks she has a lot to say.

It is Markissha who designed the Accelerated Reader t-shirt last year, the one with the caption “Big Footsie says, ‘AR is Purrr-fect!’” And it was Markissha who reminded us all many times this year, when we had one of the new library cats here, “But, remember, we can’t ever replace Big Footsie.”

It is Markissha who is providing our Cats in the Stacks today. Her class created a Middle School Newspaper, and this was her article. (more…)

SUSAN LOESCH
CATS IN THE STACKS

And then came Barney! Our second candidate for Head Library Cat is in the building.

Barney is a huge orange tabby who was a stray headed to a kill shelter a few months ago. Luckily Feline Rescue and Rehome had a foster home opening and now Barney is auditioning for a new job.

He was nervous at first, until Patrick, Lea and Hope spent a whole period brushing him. That is all it took for him to become comfortable. (more…)