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font-family:Arial">Hi gang,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">Oh, the magic hat, the magic hat!</span></font></i></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">It moved like this, it moved like that!</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">It spun through the air ……..</span></font></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Once in a great while a magic hat falls onto our heads… such is the case with my current announcement:</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Mem Fox is coming to town to speak at the Innovative Northwest Teacher’s
<i><span style="font-style:italic">Authors Series</span></i> (<a href="http://tint-edu.com/TINT/Author_Classes.html" title="blocked::http://tint-edu.com/TINT/Author_Classes.html">http://tint-edu.com/TINT/Author_Classes.html</a>). Apparently, T.I.N.T. had scheduled
Mem for another presentation earlier in the day and the presentation fell through (something about Mem needing to reschedule from a previous date). So…..</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Mem Fox has offered to provide a quick 40 minute talk for local library staff on the importance of reading aloud!!</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Youth library staff are welcome to join us for what promises to be an enlightening visit from one of the great literacy-minded children’s authors of all time.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" color="red" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold">MEM FOX on THE IMPORTANCE OF READING ALOUD</span></font></b></p>
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bold">Beaverton</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">
City</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> Library</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Tuesday May 8<sup>th</sup> from 2 – 2:45 pm</span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">If you or your library staff are in or around the
Portland metro area, this would be a great (and
</span></font><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:
Arial;font-weight:bold">FREE</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">) opportunity.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">This will be a barnstorm visit. Sadly, there will not be time for autographs or a meet-and-greet after the talk. Still… it should be loads of fun.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope to see lots of you in a couple of weeks.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Best wishes,</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian<br>
Washington
County Cooperative Library Services<br>
111 NE Lincoln,
MS 58A<br>
Hillsboro,
OR 97124<br>
(503) 648-9809 5#<br>
ricks@wccls.org </span></font></p>
<p><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-style:italic">"The clever men at
Oxford<br>
Know all that there is to be knowed.<br>
But they none of them know one half as much<br>
As intelligent Mr Toad!"<br>
</span></font></i><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-Kenneth Grahame,
<i><span style="font-style:italic">The Wind in the Willows</span></i></span></font><i><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic"></span></font></i></p>
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