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<P><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">Hi gang,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">I just saw this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial"> cool</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> <FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">website of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> <FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">Songs and Rhymes that Build Readers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> <FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">on the ALSC list-serv:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><A href="http://www.storyblocks.org/"><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><U><FONT color="#0000FF" size=2 face="Arial">http://www.storyblocks.org/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">It</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">s a pretty awesome idea. Similar to the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> <FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">Tell Me a Story</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> <FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">list that KCLS developed a few years back (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://wiki.kcls.org/tellmeastory/index.php/Category:Finger_Plays"><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><U><FONT color="#0000FF" size=2 face="Arial">http://wiki.kcls.org/tellmeastory/index.php/Category:Finger_Plays</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">This is one of those times when I feel so grateful</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> <FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">that we</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">re living in the connected age.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT color="#000080" size=2 face="Arial">Best wishes,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT size=2 face="Arial">Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT size=2 face="Arial">Chair - Children's Services Division of OLA</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT size=2 face="Arial">Washington County Cooperative Library Services</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT size=2 face="Arial">111 NE Lincoln, MS 58A</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT size=2 face="Arial">Hillsboro, OR 97124</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT size=2 face="Arial">(503) 648-9809 5#</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT size=2 face="Arial">ricks@wccls.org </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><I></I></SPAN><SPAN><I><FONT size=2 face="Arial">"The clever men at Oxford</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><I><FONT size=2 face="Arial">Know all that there is to be knowed.</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><I><FONT size=2 face="Arial">But they none of them know one half as much</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><I><FONT size=2 face="Arial">As intelligent Mr Toad!"</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT size=2 face="Arial">-Kenneth Grahame,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN><I></I></SPAN><SPAN><I> <FONT size=2 face="Arial">The Wind in the Willows</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
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