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twistedtummies2 · 2 years

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Four Must-Read Books Based on “Alice in Wonderland”

I know I just finished my “Artists in Wonderland” event, but I’m still in an Alice mood, and especially in regards to literature. So I decided to cover another topic in terms of Wonderland in writing: different books based on the “Alice” stories. Of course, movies, video games, and TV shows have given us countless reinterpretations of the “Alice” stories and characters, but there have been just as many - and probably more - in writing. From stories based on the real-life events behind the scenes, to sequels, reimaginings, and prequels of the Carrollian classics, literature has provided an abundance of different takes on Wonderland. What’s interesting is that - beyond children’s picture books and such other things - many of these reinterpretations take a darker and more adult stance with the story, creating unique lore and diving into the characters in a way Carroll’s stories do not do. This is nothing new, of course, but literature can do this in a way that most screen-based versions either cannot or do not. Now, there are numerous books based on Wonderland, like I said, and I’ve read my fair share. Today, however, I wanted to provide a short “must read” list with four key books that I feel anyone interested in “Alice” should take a look at. Again, there are a LOT more than four. Some books I enjoy that I won’t be mentioning here are The Splintered Trilogy, The Alice Chronicles, The Queen of Hearts Saga, Still She Haunts Me, After Alice, and Grin: The Unauthorized Biography of a Cheshire Cat. These are just to name a few that aren’t included here: all of them have their own unique merits and are worth looking up if you have time. These are just four books that I would classify as the cream of the crop. I should add that I won’t be including non-fiction books on the list, such as biographies, analytical or informational texts, etc. I’m specifically looking at works of fiction inspired by the stories. With that said, here are Four Must-Read Books for Alice in Wonderland Fans.

4. Alice I Have Been.

I’m starting this off with the most unique and arguably the most fascinating of the whole bunch. “Alice I Have Been,” written by Melanie Benjamin, is NOT an “Alice in Wonderland” story. It isn’t about the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, or any of the characters in the books. Instead, this is a piece of historical fiction that effectively tells the life story of Alice Hargreaves (nee Liddell), the young lady who inspired Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) to write the Wonderland books to begin with. The novel focuses on Alice’s relationship with Carroll, of course, but also just on her life in general, as she squares off her own desires and simple humanity with the fact that she is seen as someone she isn’t. In a way, the book is a lot like the movie “Dreamchild,” but while that film occasionally brings people into the fantasy of Wonderland and mostly focuses on Alice as an old woman, “Alice I Have Been” sticks entirely to the real world, and traces her life pretty much from birth to death. It’s not a biography, as it IS written in the form of a novel, and does take some liberties here and there based on the writer’s presumptions and the themes and ideas they want to play with. However, it does paint a very sincere and true-to-life portrait of the young woman, whose life story so many people never really paid attention to. If you’re more interested in reading about the actual Wonderland characters and world, then the other three books on this list are going to be more to your taste, but I felt I simply could not leave Melanie Benjamin’s gorgeous story out of the running.

3. Unbirthday.

This book is part of a series by Liz Braswell, called “Twisted Tales.” The series is published by Disney, and in each novel, a question is asked about a particular Disney movie. The novel then riffs on that question, usually by presenting a sort of AU or “What If?” scenario, but sometimes by creating a new story, a prequel or sequel, to provide a new spin on the world and characters. The latter is the case with “Unbirthday.” Admittedly, Unbirthday’s premise is not the most inspired: a grown-up Alice returns to Wonderland, and finds it has become a darker and more dangerous place than ever before. She thus joins forces with a group of freedom fighters to battle the Queen of Hearts and save Wonderland. This exact premise, in those two sentences, can sum up a LOT of different “Alice” works. And I mean A LOT: most of the more prominent darker reinterpretations of Wonderland follow that basic formula. This book isn’t the first, and it isn’t the last. So, what makes it special? One simple little thing: all other darker Wonderlands with this premise are essentially their own invention. They aren’t based on any specific pre-existing version of the stories, they’re really their own thing, with their own special spin on the setting and characters. “Unbirthday” is interesting because it’s actually based on a very particular version of Wonderland, the Disney one. This makes the story unique, because we aren’t simply seeing newer, darker takes on the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, and other characters. We’re seeing the Disney ones - the ones so many of us know best and are familiar with from childhood, beyond all the rest - being corrupted and twisted in various ways. Similarly, we aren’t simply seeing a grown-up Alice, we’re seeing the Disney Alice all grown up. It’s a bit like watching “Spider-Man: No Way Home” versus “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Both are films with similar concepts at play, but they take very different approaches, and a big part of this is that one uses versions of the characters we’ve seen before and have a pre-established connection with, while the other is totally original. The best part is that Braswell’s writing is so meticulously handled, the characters really DO feel like those Disney versions, from the way they speak to the way they are described as generally behaving. If you’re a fan of dark Wonderlands, a fan of the Disney film, or both, check this one out.

2. Heartless.

This book by Marissa Meyer is a rare example of a prequel to the “Alice” stories. This is something that actually isn’t as common as you would think. Sequels to Wonderland and reimaginings of the story are pretty easy to come by, but prequels - stories that detail the world before Alice - are quite rare. I think this is mostly because, in the books, Wonderland is supposedly just a dream Alice had. And in many strict adaptations, it’s left ambiguous, at best, how much of Wonderland was a dream and how much of it was real. So what’s the point in creating a backstory and lore to a world that doesn’t exist? Well, of course, these works base themselves on the idea it DOES exist, and while they are not common, they are out there. In my opinion, “Heartless” is the single best Wonderland prequel I’ve ever come across. The story ostensibly tells the tale of how the Queen of Hearts - here named Catherine - became the fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant we all know and love to hate. In other words, it’s essentially “Wicked” (the novel, not the play), but for the Queen of Hearts. And much like “Wicked,” it not only gives us the skinny on the main villainess, but also involves multiple other characters from the books, most notably the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Duchess, and the King of Hearts, although other characters show up here and there, too. The primary reason I think Meyer’s book tops other prequels to the stories is simply this: with other prequels I’ve encountered, there’s always this sort of inconclusive feeling. Like, it’s hard to imagine these characters becoming the ones in the Carroll stories. That ISN’T the case with “Heartless”: not only is Catherine’s petulant, furious, rage-filled personality perfectly understandable, giving a once comically cruel and violently nasty villain a sympathetic and complex persona, but other characters feel very natural in their progression from where they start off to where we next see them. They’re written in such a way that they really do feel like those Victorian caricatures of madness we all care about so much, while still existing in their own unique space. This, above all else, makes Heartless one of my favorite Wonderland-based books. Check it out if you ever wanted to know what life was like before Alice’s fall.

1. The Looking-Glass Wars.

Frank Beddor’s “The Looking-Glass Wars” Trilogy is, without a doubt, my favorite book based on the “Alice” stories. It’s another dark reimagining of Wonderland that, on the surface, has the same basic formula “Unbirthday” and so many other stories have, but the way it interprets the world and the characters is totally its own, and wonderfully creative. The premise of “The Looking-Glass Wars” is that the story we all know and love so well is a boldfaced lie: the tale begins when Alyss Heart - the Princess of Wonderland, rightful heir to the throne - has her parents killed and kingdom usurped by her evil Aunt Redd. With the aid of Hatter Madigan, her loyal bodyguard, Alyss escapes through the Pool of Tears to our world…but because of some problems in-transit, Hatter is thrown all the way into France, while Alyss ends up in a slum in England. She is eventually taken in by the Liddell family, and meets Charles Dodgson, who writes a story inspired by the “wild fantasies” she tells him about. This story, of course, becomes the “Alice in Wonderland” we all know and love today. As time goes on, Alice forgets her old life and world entirely…until she’s finally rediscovered by her people, and brought back (along with Hatter M.) to Wonderland, to join the resistance and take back the crown from her traitorous aunt. In essence, the first book is “The Lion King” but with a Wonderland motif…but that’s only where the story starts, as the book would have two sequels, and not one, but TWO spin-off comic book series. I love the imagination and unique perspective Beddor’s books have, and the way it reinterprets classic characters. Some of them - like Aunt Redd, Bibwit Harte, and Blue the Caterpillar - feel very much like the Wonderlandian characters we all know and love, just a bit darker than usual. Others - like The Cat, Hatter Madigan, and Dodge Anders (Alice’s love interest, based on the Dodo, of all characters) - are radically different from the ones we know and love, but that’s kind of the point. The way the books mesh fantasy and history, tradition and new ideas, and so on really is one-of-a-kind, and it’s by far one of my favorite takes on “Alice” in general, and one that I wish more people knew about. I would love to see these books adapted to TV or cinema, or even to video games. Until that day, the stories stand on their own well enough. Admittedly, I’m not a huge fan of the comic book spinoffs I mentioned, but the original novels are truly fantastic. Read this trilogy as soon as you can.

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twobrokegirlswithbooks · 4 years

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jomp bpc: read in December

-Nerdy Panda

True Grit by Charles Portis (A western)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (An anthology)

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (A book published in the 20th century)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Just Lucky by Melanie Florence (A book that has a book on the cover)

What Light by Jay Asher

Secret Santa by Sabrina James

Mirror, Mirror by Jen Calonita (A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins)

A Whole New World by Liz Braswell

not pictured:

The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer (A book by an author who has written more than 20 books)

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (A book from a series with more than 20 books)

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

Everything I Need To Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki

Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini (A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character)

Supernova by Marissa Meyer

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #books #reading wrap up

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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years

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WILDCAT

December 17, 1960

Wildcat is a musical comedy about Wildcat Jackson and her sister who come to oil country in 1912 to strike it rich. She runs into the prowess of Joe Dynamite, and a battle of the sexes and the oil tycoons ensues.

Wildcat wasn’t written with the 48 year-old queen of comedy in mind so when she showed interest, the script by N. Richard Nash had to be radically re-written.

At the start of the 1960’s Ball’s career was taking a new direction. She was leaving her TV personae Lucy Ricardo (as well as her real-life husband Desi Arnaz) behind for newer horizons. It was their company Desilu that would produce Wildcat with Lucy having say over who would be cast as her co-star. After several of her first choices proved not available (including Clint Eastwood), she settled on Keith Andes.

Although Ball was not known for her singing (a fact she traded on in “I Love Lucy”) or her dancing (which she was far better at), she had the determination of Wildcat Jackson to attempt it eight times a week.

Director and choreographer Michael Kidd – known for his athletic dances – would put Ball through her paces. The score was by Cy Coleman with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, giving Ball the rousing anthem “Hey, Look Me Over!” and the tuneful “What Takes My Fancy.”

The out-of-town critics were mixed, but obviously adored the red-headed star. The show was headed up the New Jersey Turnpike in trucks headed for Broadway when a serious blizzard stranded the caravan, causing the opening night to be delayed.

With just two previews under their belt, the show opened at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon) on December 17, 1960. Box office sales were buoyed by audiences expecting to see Lucy Ricardo, not Lucille Ball as Wildy Jackson, so eventually Ball interpolated more and more of her trademark comic inflections into her character.

Then Ball took ill. She left the show for a bit with the idea to return and continue the run. But upon her return she collapsed on stage. Producers decided to close the show for as long as it took her to recover and resume when her strength and health had returned. But the musicians union insisted upon payment during the hiatus, which made the wait financially unfeasible.

All in all, Wildcat lasted 171 performances. It wasn’t Ball’s only musical, however. In 1974 she took on the title role in the film of Mame with mixed to poor critical reactions.

"Then I go to New York with the two children, my mother and two maids. We have a seven-room apartment on 69th Street at Lexington. I’ll start rehearsals right away for a Broadway show, 'Wildcat.’ It’s a comedy with music, not a musical comedy, but the music is important. I play a girl wildcatter in the Southwestern oil fields around the turn of the century. It was written by N. Richard Nash, who wrote 'The Rainmaker.’ He is co-producer with Michael Kidd, the director. We’re still looking for a leading man. I want an unknown. He has to be big, husky, around 40. He has to be able to throw me around, and I’m a pretty big girl. He has to be able to sing, at least a little. I have to sing, too. It’s pretty bad. When I practice, I hold my hands over my ears. We open out of town - I don’t know where - and come to New York in December.” ~ Lucille Ball, TV Guide, July 16, 1960

THE SCORE

Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh and Music by Cy Coleman

Act I

I Hear - Townspeople

Hey, Look Me Over - Wildy and Jane

Wildcat* - Wildy and Townspeople

You've Come Home - Joe

That's What I Want for Janie* - Wildy

What Takes My Fancy - Wildy and Sookie

You're a Liar - Wildy and Joe

One Day We Dance - Hank and Jane

Give a Little Whistle and I'll Be There - Wildy, Joe, The Crew

Tall Hope - Tattoo, Oney, Sadie, Matt and Crew

Act II

Tippy Tippy Toes - Wildy and Countess

El Sombrero

Corduroy Road

You've Come Home (Reprise) - Joe

(*) Songs cut sometime after opening night.

THE CAST

Lucille Ball (Wildcat Jackson) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon, which was not a success and was canceled after just 13 episodes.

Keith Andes (Joe Dynamite) was born John Charles Andes in Ocean City, New Jersey, in 1920. Andes played Lucy Carmichael’s boyfriend Bill King on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy Goes Duck Hunting” (TLS S2;E6) and “Lucy and the Winter Sports” (TLS S3;E3) and played Brad Collins in “Lucy and Joan” (S4;E4) co-starring Joan Blondell. Andes took his own life in 2005 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Valerie Harper (Dancer, right) became one of television’s most recognizable stars as “Rhoda” (1974-78) a spin-off of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” She appeared in at “Kennedy Center Presents” honoring Lucy in 1986. She died in August 2019 after a long battle with brain cancer.

Paula Stewart (Janie) appears in the fourth of her six Broadway musicals between 1951 and 1965. Her only series television appearance opposite Lucille Ball was in “Lucy and Harry’s Tonsils” (HL S2;E5) in 1969. In 2017, she published a memoir titled Lucy Loved Me, about her friendship with Lucille Ball.

Hal Linden (Matt, replacement) became one of television’s most recognizable stars as “Barney Miller” (1974-82). He appeared at an “All-Star Party for Lucille Ball” in 1984 and at “Kennedy Center Presents” honoring Lucy in 1986.

Howard Fischer (Sheriff Sam Gore)

Ken Ayers (Barney)

Anthony Saverino (Luke)

Edith King (Countess Emily O'Brien)

Clifford David (Hank)

HF Green (Miguel)

Don Tomkins (Sookie)

Charles Braswell (Matt)

Bill Linton (Corky)

Swen Swenson (Oney)

Ray Mason (Sandy)

Bill Walker (Tattoo)

Al Lanti (Cisco)

Bill Richards (Postman)

Marsha Wagner (Inez)

Wendy Nickerson (Blonde)

Betty Jane Watson (Wildy Understudy)

Dancers: Barbara Beck, Robert Bakanic, Mel Davidson, Penny Ann Green, Lucia Lambert, Ronald Lee, Jacqueline Maria, Frank Pietrie, Adriane Rogers, John Sharpe, Gerald Tiejelo

Singers: Lee Green, Jan Leighton, Urylee Leonardos, Virginia Oswald, Jeanne Steele, Gene Varrone

MRS. MORTON

Lucy met Gary Morton while doing Wildcat on Broadway. She put off their first date due to her rigorous performance schedule. Eventually, he showed up with a pizza just when Lucy was craving one. They married on November 19, 1961.

Comic Jack Carter served as best man at Lucy and Gary’s wedding in 1961. A few weeks later he married Paula Stewart, who played Lucy’s sister Janie in Wildcat. He acted in “Lucy Sues Mooney” (TLS S6;E12).

“HEY LOOK ME OVER!”

On June 4, 1976 Lucille is joined by Valerie Harper and Dinah Shore on “Dinah!” to sing her signature song from Wildcat, “Hey, Look Me Over.”

When Lucille Ball was celebrated at “The Kennedy Center Honors” in December 1986, Valerie Harper, Beatrice Arthur, and Pam Dawber sang a song parody of the “I Love Lucy” theme expressing their affection for Lucy. The medley ends with a specially-tailored “Hey Look Me Over”.

In “Lucy and Carol Burnett: Part 2″ (TLS S6;E15) on December 11, 1967, Lucy, Carol, and the ensemble perform “Hey, Look Me Over” with specially written lyrics to suit the episode’s theme of air travel.

In “Lucy Meets Danny Kaye” (TLS S3;E15) on December 28, 1964, the opening of “The Danny Kaye Show” is underscored with the music to “Hey, Look Me Over.”

While David Frost is trying to sleep during a transatlantic flight, Lucy wears her headset and hums along to “Hey Look Me Over” while tapping it out on the glasses with her cutlery. The scene is from “Lucy Helps David Frost Go Night-Night” (HL S4;E12) aired on November 12, 1971.

In “Lucy and Petula Clark” (HL S5;E8) in 1972, Lucy Carter leaves the office singing “Hey Look Me Over.”

On “Life With Lucy,” Lucy’s grandson Kevin plays on the YMCA soccer team The Wildcats. The name of the team is probably a reference to Lucille Ball’s only Broadway show.

In the second scene of “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” (1986), an un-aired episode of “Life With Lucy”, Lucy comes down the stairs of the living room singing “Hey Look Me Over.”

WILDCAT WILDCARDS

In April 1961, Lucille Ball played softball in Central Park for the Broadway Show League when she was appearing in Wildcat. Julie Andrews (starring in Camelot) was the catcher! The catcher was Joe E. Brown.

In the play Love! Valour! Compassion! Buzz, a gay musical theater aficionado (Nathan Lane on Broadway) breaks the fourth wall (a common conceit of the play) to tell the audience something personal about himself.

The song title was also the title of a 2018 revue about rarely produced musicals at City Center in New York City. Performer Carolee Carmello called it her “hair homage to Lucille Ball.”

~ From the memoir Under the Radar by Clifford David, who played Hal in Wildcat

#Wildcat #Lucille Ball #Lucy #Broadway #Musical #Keith Andes #Gary Morton #Paula Stewart #Valerie Harper #Clifford David #Cy Coleman #Hey Look Me Over #Alvin Theatre #Hal Linden #Richard Nash #Life With Lucy #Here's Lucy #The Lucy Show #TV

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1) Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll

2) Peter Pan- J.M Barrie

3) Hansel and Gretel- Brothers Grimm

4) Little Red Riding Hood- Charles Perrault

5) The Little Match Girl- Hans Christian Andersen

6) The Steadfast Tin Soldier- Hans Christian Andersen

7) A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens

8) Thumbelina- Hans Christian Andersen

9) As Old As Time- A Twisted Tale- Liz Braswell (Reimagination of the classic Beauty and the Beast)

10) The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett

11) Swan Lake- Ballet by Giscard Rasquin and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

12) Letters from Father Christmas- J.R.R. Tolkien

13) The Snow Queen- Hans Christian Andersen

14) Peter Pan- Fairy Tales by J.M. Barrie (Neverland)

15) The Nutcracker and the Four Realms- 2018 Movie

16) Little Women- Louisa May Alcott

17) If I Had a Little Dream by Nina Laden and Melissa Castrillon

18) Cinderella- Walt Disney Movie

19) Gifts of the Magi- O. Henry

20) The Snowman- Raymond Briggs/1982 film

21) The Box of Delights- John Masefield

22) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)- C. S. Lewis

23) Sleeping Beauty

24) Starry Night- Vincent van Gogh

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trickster-kat · 2 years

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Every Book/Manga I read in January

Fairest of All by Serena Valentino (Book 1 of Villians)

The Vampire Prince by Michelle Madow (Book 2 of The Vampire Wish)

Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori (Volumes 4-18)

Pet Shop of Horrors by Akino Matsuri (Volumes 1-10)

Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui (Volumes 1-21)

White Raven by J.L. Weil (Book 1 of The Raven Series)

Once Upon a Time by Liz Braswell (Book 2 of A Twisted Tale)

A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova (Book 1 of Married to Magic)

Crave by Tracy Wolff (Book 1 of Crave Series)

It's A Charmed Life by Selene Charles (Book 1 of The Grimm Files)

The Faerie Games by Michelle Madow (Book 1 of The Faerie Games)

Darkblood Academy by G.K. DeRosa (Book 1: Half-Blood)

Crown of Shadows by K.M. Shea (Book 1 of Court of Midnight & Deception)

The Princess Trials by Cordelia K Castel (Book 1 of The Princess Trials)

Curiouser & Curiouser by Melanie Karsak

Curse of Shadows and Thorns by LJ Andrews (Book 1 of The Broken Kingdoms)

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tigriswolf · 7 years

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book log FINISHED

January: 25

February: 55

March: 80

April: 47

May: 63

June: 72

July: 95

August: 32

September: 31

October: 89

November: 73

December: 343

Year-end total: 1,003

Bold: first time reading

bold italics: read for school

January 5 – 6, 2017: Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce January 7 – 8, 2017: Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce January 9, 2017: Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce January 10, 2017: The Realm of the Gods by Tamora Pierce January 11, 2017: The One You Feed by EM Hollaway January 12, 2017: Alanna The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce January 13, 2017: In the Hands of the Goddess and The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce January 13 - 18, 2017: Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce

January 17 – April 6, 2017: Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education by Joan Poliner Shapiro & Jacqueline A. Stefkovich January 18 - 19, 2017: First Test by Tamora Pierce January 19 - 20, 2017: Page by Tamora Pierce January 20 - 21, 2017: Squire by Tamora Pierce January 21 - 23, 2017: Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce January 23 - 24, 2017: Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce

January 24 – April 8, 2017: Decolonizing Methodologies Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

January 24 – April 7, 2017: Educational Leadership for Ethics and Social Justice ed. by Anthony H. Normore & Jeffrey S. Brooks January 25, 2017: Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce January 26 - 27, 2017: Tortall and Other Lands by Tamora Pierce

January 26 – April 20, 2017: Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education ed. Edward Taylor & David Gillborn & Gloria Ladson-Billings January 27, 2017: Ferocious Fluffity by Erica S. Perl & Henry Cole January 30, 2017: Serpents and Werewolves: Stories of Shapeshifters from around the World by Lari Don; I Am the Book, poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins & illustrated by Yayo; Imagine a City by Elise Hurt; Jumping Off Library Shelves, poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins & illustrated by Jane Manning; Eyes of the Unicorn by Teresa Bateman; Forgive Me, I Meant To Do It by Gail Carson Levine; Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede January 31, 2017: Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede February 1, 2017: Calling on Dragons & Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede February 1 - 2, 2017: Book of Enchantments by Patricia C. Wrede February 2 - 3, 2017: Beauty by Robin McKinley

February 3, 2017: The Unicorn and the Moon by Tomie dePaula; Bang Bang I Hurt the Moon by Luis Amavisca & Esther G. Madrid; Bogo the Fox Who Wanted Everything by Susanna Isern & Sonja Wimmer; Also an Octopus by Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Benji Davies; The Bear Who Couldn’t Sleep by Caroline Nastro & Vanya Nastanlieva

February 4, 2017: Cloaked in Red by Vivian Vande Velde; The Tale of Tam Linn by Lari Don & Philip Longson; The Secret of the Kelpie by Lari Don & Philip Longson February 4 - 6, 2017: Once Upon a Dream by Liz Braswell

February 6, 2017: Three Good Deeds by Vivian Vande Velde

February 6 - 7, 2017: Under My Hat Tales from the Cauldron edited by Jonathan Strahan

February 7 - 8, 2017: Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell

February 8, 2017: Poisoned Apples Poems for You My Dear by Christine Heppermann; Girls and Goddesses Stories of Heroines from around the World by Lari Don

February 8 - 11, 2017: The Lost Empire of Atlantis by Gavin Menzies

February 9, 2017: The Search for Lost Cities by Nicola Barber

February 9 – April 25, 2017: Racial Battle Fatigue Exposing the Myth of Post-Racial America ed. by Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner & Katrice A. Albert & Roland W. Mitchell & Chaunda M. Allen

February 10 -11 , 2017: Atlantis The Andes Solution by JM Allen

February 11, 2017: The Cod’s Tale by Mark Kurlansky; One Hundred Details from the National Gallery by Kenneth Clark; Troll’s Eye View edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

February 12, 2017: Beware the White Rabbit edited by Shannon Delaney & Judith Graves

February 13, 2017: Historical Animals by Julia Moberg; Cinderella A Grimm’s Fairy Tale by Ulrike Hasselhoff

February 13 - 14, 2017: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

February 14, 2017: Blood-sucking Man-eating Monsters by Kelly Regan Barnhill; The Turkey Girl by Penny Pollock & Ed Young; Beauty and the Beast by Mahlon F. Craft & Kinuko Y. Craft; The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin & David Shannon

February 14 – April 9, 2017: Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Critical Pedagogues and Their Pedagogical Theories vol. 4 ed. by Samuel Totten & Jon E. Pedersen

February 15, 2017: Rosa Bonheur Painter of Animals by Olive Price

February 15 – 16, 2017: Sweetblood by Pete Hautman

February 16 - 19, 2017: Dinosaurs How They Lived and Evolved by Darren Nash & Paul Barrett

February 17, 2017: Cinderella a Fairy Tale Adventure by Giada Francia

February 18, 2017: Beauty and the Beast by H. Chuku Lee & Pat Cummings; Previously by Allan Ahlberg & Bruce Ingman; Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? By David Levinthal & John Nickle; Glass Slipper Gold Sandal a Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman & Julie Paschkis

February 19, 2017: Here There Be Monsters The Legendary Kraken and the Giant Squid by HP Newquist; Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz

February 19 – 21, 2017: The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell

February 20, 2017: Bigfoot CindeRRRRella by Tony Johnston & James Warhola; The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot by Scott Magoon

February 22, 2017: Nursery Tales Around the World by Judy Sierra; Giant Sea Reptiles of the Dinosaur Age by Caroline Arnold & Laurie Caple

February 22 - 28, 2017: Celestial Geometry by Ken Taylor

February 22 – 23, 2017: Classical Women Poets by Josephine Balmer

February 23, 2017: A Library for Juana by Pat Mora & Beatriz Vidal; Rosa Bonheur by Elbert Hubbard

February 24, 2017: The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney; The Emperor and the Nightingale by Kuang-ts’ai Hao, Shih-ming Chang, & Nguyen Ngoc Ngan; Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna by Nancy White Carlstrom & Jerry Pinkney; Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses by Ron Koertge

February 25 – March 1, 2017: The Tempest by Shakespeare (ed. by Barbara A Mowat & Paul Werstine)

March 1, 2017: The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting by Anne Trubek; We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche; Women of the Sea Ten Pirate Stories by Myra Weatherly

March 1 - 2, 2017: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

March 1 - 16, 2017: The Moral Imperative of School Leadership by Michael Fullan

March 2, 2017: The Nightingale by Pirkko Vainio; The Nightingale by Stephen Mitchell & Bagram Ibatoulline; The Little Match Girl by Jerry Pinkney; Mama’s Nightingale by Edwidge Danticat & Leslie Staub; Little Red Riding Hood by Jerry Pinkney

March 2 – 5, 2017: Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston

March 2 - 8, 2017: The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

March 3, 2017: First Light First Life A Worldwide Creation Story by Paul Fleischman & Julie Paschkis; Anansi and the Box of Stories by Stephen Krensky & Jeni Reeves; The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell; The Parade a Stampede of Stories about Ananse the Trickster Spider by KP Kojo

March 3 - 6, 2017: Demand the Impossible a Radical Manifesto by Bill Ayers

March 4, 2017: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble; The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne; Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know What Is a Synonym by Brian P. Cleary & Brian Gable; I’m, Won’t, They’re, and Don’t What’s a Contraction? By Brian P. Cleary & Gable; Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson & Kevin O’Malley

March 5 - 6 , 2017: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

March 5 – 7, 2017: Sappho by Diane J. Raynor & Andre Lardinois; Huntress by Malindo Lo

March 7, 2017: Blanchette et les Sept Petits Cajuns A Cajun Snow White by Sheila Hebert-Collins & Patrick Soper; Sleeping Beauty by Maja Dusikova

March 7 - 9, 2017: Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws Fairy-Tale Beasts ed. by Jennifer Schacker & Christine A. Jones, ill. By Lina Kusaite

March 8, 2017: Ash by Malinda Lo

March 9, 2017: The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner; Snow White A Fairy Tale Adventure by Giada Francia; All the Dirt A History of Getting Clean by Katherine Ashenburg

March 9 - 12, 2017: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher

March 10, 2017: A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner; Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Chihiro Iwasaki; Rapunzel A Fairy Tale Adventure by Giada Francia; Imaginary Menagerie A Book of Curious Creatures by Julia Larios & Julia Paschkis; Beauty and the Beast A Fairy Tale Adventure by Giada Francia; Matchless A Christmas Story by Gregory Maguire

March 11, 2017: The Little Match Girl by Rachel Isadora; The Girl Who Spun Gold by Virginia Hamilton and Leo & Diane Dillon; Little Red Riding Hood A Fairy Tale Adventure by Giada Francia; The Sleeping Beauty by Trina Schart Hyman; The Little Mermaid A Fairy Tale Adventure by Giada Francia; Sleeping Beauty A Fairy Tale Adventure by Giada Francia

March 12, 2017: Sleeping Beauty by Margaret Early

March 13 - 15, 2017: Kraken by Wendy Williams

March 15, 2017: Instructions by Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess; Snoring Beauty by Bruce Hale & Howard Fine

March 16, 2017: Snow White An Islamic Tale by Fawzia Gilani & Shireen Adams; Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman & Skottie Young; The 21 Balloons by William Pene du Bois

March 17, 2017: The Cow of No Color Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from around the World by Nina Jaffe & Steve Zeitlin

March 18 - 21, 2017: Giants of the Lost World by Donald R Prothero

March 18, 2017: Daisy-Head Mayzie by Dr. Seuss; There’s a Wocket in My Pocket by Dr. Seuss; Cinderella by Ruth Sanderson; Cinderella (as if you didn’t already know the story) by Barbara Ensor; Sarah’s Unicorn by Bruce & Katherine Coville

March 20, 2017: Aladdin A Fairy Tale Adventure by Giada Francia

March 21, 2017: Aida by Leontyne Price and Leo&Diane Dillon; Octopuses by Kate Riggs; The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Leo&Diane Dillon; Wind Child by Shirley Rousseau Murphy and Leo&Diane Dillon

March 22, 2017: A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham

March 23, 2017: Megatooth by Patrick O’Brien; Paleo Sharks by Timothy J. Bradley; Earth Mother by Ellen Jackson and Leo&Diane Dillon

March 24, 2017: Turandot by Marianna Mayer & Winslow Pels; The Crystal Mountain by Ruth Sanderson; The Sleeping Beauty by Jane Yolen & Ruth Sanderson

March 25, 2017: The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Marianna Mayer & KY Craft; Princess Tales by Grace Maccarone & Gail de Marcken

March 26, 2017: The Snow Princess by Ruth Sanderson; The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Ruth Sanderson; Where Have the Unicorns Gone? By Jane Yolen & Ruth Sanderson

March 31, 2017: Skin Again by bell hooks & Chris Raschka; Would You Rather be a Princess or a Dragon? By Barney Saltzberg; Little Wing Learns to Fly by Calista Brill & Jennifer A Bell

April 1 – 2, 2017: Which Witch? By Eva Ibbotson

April 1 - 3, 2017: 4000 Years of Uppity Women by Vicki Leon

April 1 – 7, 2017: The Myrtles Plantation by Frances Kermeen

April 3 - 6, 2017: Goose Chase by Patrice Lidl

April 7, 2017: Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages by Vicki Leon

April 8, 2017: Voices of the Trojan War by Kate Hovey & Leonid Gore; A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan

April 8 - 20, 2017: Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon

April 10, 2017: Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole by Joe Rhatigan & Charles Nurnberg & Eric Puybaret; Alice in Wonderland The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party by Joe Rhatigan & Charles Nurnberg & Eric Puybaret

April 13, 2017: Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen & Ming Li

April 14, 2017: Happy Birthday The Story of the World’s Most Popular Song by Nancy Kelley Allen & Gary Undercuffler; Claire and the Unicorn Happy Ever After by BG Hennessy & Susan Mitchell; You Make Me Happy by An Swerts & Jenny Bakker; The Happy Troll by Max Bolliger & Peter Sis; Happy with Me by Leo Timmers

April 16, 2016: Enchanted Pony Academy All That Glitters by Lisa Ann Scott

April 18, 2017: Sloppy Wants a Hug by Sean Julian

April 19, 2017: Melanie by Carol Carrick & Alisher Dianov; Happy by Emma Dodd; Crow by Leo Timmers; Happy Dreamer by Peter H. Reynolds

April 21: Happy Birthday, Monster by Scott Beck; The Wild Swans by Ken Setterington & Nelly&Ernst Hofer

April 25, 2017: A Mud Pie for Mother by Scott Beck; The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

April 26, 2017: Komodo! by Peter Sis; Enchanted Pony Academy Wings That Shine by Lisa Ann Scott

April 27, 2017: A Friend Like You by Andrea Schomburg & Barbara Rotten & Sean Julian; Pepito the Brave by Scott Beck; Together by Emma Dodd; Monsters Sleepover by Scott Beck; Always by Emma Dodd; Wish by Emma Dodd; Love by Emma Dodd; When I Grow Up by Emma Dodd; Enchanted Pony Academy Let It Glow by Lisa Ann Scott; Enchanted Pony Academy Dreams That Sparkle by Lisa Ann Scott

April 28, 2017: Everything by Emma Dodd; The Entertainer by Emma Dodd

April 29, 2017: My Best Friends by Anna Nilsen & Emma Dodd

April 30 – May 2, 2017: Nailed Ten Christian Myths that Show Jesus Never Existed at All by David Fitzgerald

May 6, 2017: Turtle Tug to the Rescue by Michael Slack; Forever by Emma Dodd; When You Were Born by Emma Dodd

May 6 – June 19, 2017: So High a Blood The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor That Time Forgot by Morgan Ring

May 6 – June 26, 2017: She-Wolves The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor

May 12, 2017: My Dad by Steve Smallman & Sean Julian; My Family Is a Zoo by KA Gerrard & Emma Dodd; What Do You Like to Wear? By Hannay Reidy & Emma Dodd; Bear Can’t Sleep by Marni McGee & Sean Julian

May 12 – June 1, 2017: From Eden to Exile Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible by Eric H. Cline

May 15, 2017: Foxy by Emma Dodd; I Love Bugs by Emma Dodd; Sea Monster and the Bossy Fish by Kate Messner & Andy Rash; A Donkey Reads by Muriel Mandell & Andre Letria

May 16, 2017: Kubla Khan The Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull & Robert Byrd

May 17, 2017: Foxy in Love by Emma Dodd; My Life as a Chicken by Ellen A Kelly & Michael Slack; The Little Wing Giver by Jacques Taravant & Peter Sis; Pirasaurs by Josh Funk & Michael Slack; Monkey Truck by Michael Slack; Elecopter by Michael Slack; Big brothers don’t take naps by Louise Borden & Emma Dodd; Nugget and Fang by Tammi Sauer & Michael Slack

May 19, 2017: The Monster Diaries by Luciano Saracino & Poly Bernatene

May 20, 2017: Giraffe Meets Bird by Rebecca Bender

May 20 – 22, 2017: Okapis by Christy Steele

May 23, 2017: Dirty Joe the Pirate a True Story by Bill Harley & Jack E. Davis; Tales of the Mushroom Folk by Signe Aspelin; Escargot by Dashka Slater & Sydney Hanson; King O’ the Cats by Aaron Shepard & Kristin Sorra

May 24, 2017: My Beautiful Birds by Suzanne Del Rizzo; Pandora by Victoria Turnbull; Cinderellaphant by Dianne de Las Casas & Stefan Jolet; The Blue Songbird by Vern Kousky

Mary 25, 2017: The Fox Wish by Kimiko Aman & Komako Sakai; Pretty Salma a Little Red Riding Story from Africa by Niki Daly; All Birds Have Anxiety by Kathy Hoopman

May 28, 2017: Twelve Dancing Unicorns by Alissa Heyman & Justin Gerard; The Moon Dragons by Dyan Sheldon & Gary Blythe; The Cajun Cornbread Boy by Dianne de Las Casas & Marita Gentry

May 30, 2017: Sleeping Bobby by Will Osborne & Mary Pope Osborne & Giselle Potter; Cinderella by Max Eilenberg & Niamh Sharkey; Little Red Riding Hood by Lari Don & Celia Chauffrey & Imelda Staunton; Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton; How Robin Saved Spring by Debbie Ouellet & Nicoletta Ceccoli; The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett & Poly Bernatene; The Cloud Spinner by Michael Catchpool & Alison Jay; The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson & Paul Howard; I’m Not Sleepy by Jane Chapman; Me Too, Grandma by Jane Chapman; Bedtime in the Forest by Kazuo Iwamura; Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox & Lydia Monks; Prince Ribbit by Jonathan Emmett & Poly Beratene; Otto the Owl Who Loved Poetry by Vern Kousky; Hoot and Holler by Alan Brown & Rimantas Rolla; Yard Sale by Mitra Modarressi; The Little White Owl by Tracey Corderoy & Jane Chapman; Taking Care of Mama by Mitra Modarressi; Little Owl’s Day by Divya Srinivasan; Little Owl’s Night by Divya Sirinivasan; Seven Fathers by Ashley Ramsden & Ed Young; Little Red by Bethan Woollvin; Puss in Boots by Joy Cowley & Sam-hyeon Kim

May 31, 2017: The BFG by Roald Dahl; The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Mary Hoffman & Miss Clara

June 1, 2017: Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep by Gail Carson Levine

June 7, 2017: Scowl by Steve Smallman & Richard Watson; Because I Had a Teacher by Kobi Yamada & Natalie Russell

June 7 – July 17, 2017: Helping Children Succeed What Works and Why by Paul Tough; Poverty and Schooling in the US Contexts and Consequences by Sue Books

June 8, 2017: The Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy & Niamh Sharkey; The Sons of the Dragon King by Ed Young; Moon Mother by Ed Young; The Magical Snow Garden by Tracey Corderoy & Jane Chapman; If Kisses Were Colors by Janet Lawler & Alison Jay; White Wave A Chinese Tale by Diane Wolkstein & Ed Young; Hoot and Peep by Lita Judge; Owl Sees Owl by Laura Godwin & Rob Dunlavey; Timothy Tugbottom Says No by Anne Tyler & Mitra Modarressi; Sleeping Bunny by Emily Snowell Keller & Pamela Silin-Palmer; Yeh-Shen A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie & Ed Young

June 9, 2017: Hooray for Spring by Kazuo Iwamura; The Very Noisy Night by Diana Hendry & Jane Chapman; Hooray for Fall by Kazuo Iwamura; Hooray for Snow by Kazuo Iwamura

June 10, 2017: The Not-So Scary Snorklum by Paul Bright & Jane Chapman

June 12, 2017: Big Red and the Little Bitty Wolf by Jeanie Franz Ransom & Jennifer Zivoin; Sidney & Norman a tale of two pigs by Phil Vischer & Justin Gerard; Once Upon a Time, the End by Geoffrey Kloske & Barry Blitt; The Frog Prince Saves Sleeping Beauty by Charlotte Guillam & Dan Widdowson; October Smiled Back by Lisa Westberg Peters & Ed Young; The First Song Ever Sung by Laura Krauss Melmed & Ed Young; Desert Song by Tony Johnston & Ed Young; The Cat from Hunger Mountain by Ed Young; Lon Po Po a Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young; The Best Gift of All by Jonathan Emmett & Vanessa Cabban; Beyond the Great Mountains a Visual Poem about China by Ed Young; Clever Katya a Fairy Tale from Old Russia by Mary Hoffman & Marie Cameron; Hooray for Summer by Kazuo Iwamura; Hooray for Today by Brian Won; Moon Bear by Brenda Z Guiberson & Ed Young

June 14, 2017: Listen, Listen by Phillis Gershator & Alison Jay; Crabs, Crayfishes, and Their Relatives by Beth Blaxland

June 15, 2017: Sun, Moon, and Stars by Mary Hoffman & Jane Ray

June 18, 2017: Cats Are Cats by Nancy Larrick & Ed Young; For Biddle’s Sake by Gail Carson Levine; The Princess Test by Gail Carson Levine; The Fairy’s Mistake by Gail Carson Levine

June 19, 2017: The Fairy’s Return by Gail Carson Levine

June 22, 2017: Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine

June 23, 2017: Gooseberry Goose by Claire Freedman & Vanessa Cabban; Down in the Woods at Sleepytime by Carole Lexa Schaefer & Vanessa Cabban; Where There’s a Bear, There’s Trouble by Michael Catchpool & Vanessa Cabban; Hooray for Hat by Brian Won

June 24, 2017: Hurry Hurry Have You Heard by Laura Krauss Melmed & Jane Dyer; Jumbo’s Lullaby by Laura Krauss Melmed & Henri Sorensen; Through the Heart of the Jungle by Jonathan Emmett & Elena Gomez; Twelve Terrible Things by Marty Kelley; The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Jerry Pinkney; Breezier, Chessier, Newest, and Bluest by Brian P. Cleary & Brian Gable; A Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne; Under, Over, By the Clover by Brian P Cleary & Brian Gable; Twenty Heartbeats by Dennis Haseley & Ed Young

June 25, 2017: Warhorses by Yusef Komunyakaa

June 26, 2017: The Last Unicorn the Lost Version by Peter S. Beagle

June 26 – June 30, 2017: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George

June 27, 2017: Betsy Who Cried Wolf by Gail Carson Levine & Scott Nash; The Hunter by Mary Casanova & Ed Young; The Princess and the Frogs by Veronica Bartles & Sara Palacios; Betsy Red Hoodie by Gail Carson Levine & Scott Nash

June 29, 2017: Georgie’s Best Bad Day by Ruth Chan; The Cat Book by Silvia Borando; The Tortoise & the Hare by Jerry Pinkney

June 30, 2017: Beauty and the Beast by H. Chuku Lee & Pat Cummings; Beauty and the Beast by Ursula Jones & Sarah Gibb; The Seal Mother by Mordicai Gerstein

July 1, 2017: Feet and Puppies, Thieves and Guppies by Brian P. Cleary & Brian Gable; Yaks Yak by Linda Sue Park & Jennifer Black Reinhardt; Pete with No Pants by Rowboat Watkins; Where’s My Truck by Karen Beaumont & David Catrow; The Catawampus Cat by Jason Carter Eaton & Gus Gordon; Puss in Boots by Jerry Pinkney; A Most Mysterious Mouse by Antony Shugaar, Giovanna Zoboli, & Lisa D’Andrea; Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling & Jerry Pinkney; Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack & Jerry Pinkney; Three Little Kittens by Jerry Pinkney; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Jerry Pinkney; Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon & Jerry Pinkney; The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney

July 1 - 3 2017: Katherine Howard A New History by Conor Byrne

July 3, 2017: Home Place by Crescent Dragonwagon & Jerry Pinkney; Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins; The Ugly Duckling by Jerry Pinkney; The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart & Sydney Smith; Ideas Are All Around by Philip C. Stead; The Grasshopper & the Ants by Jerry Pinkney; Bear Has a Story to Tell by Philip C. Stead & Erin E. Stead

July 4, 2017: Otto the Book Bear by Katie Cleminson

July 7, 2017: Hotel Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins; Sidewalk Flowers by Jon Arno Lawson & Sydney Smith; Rude Cakes by Rowboat Watkins; Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole; Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon & Jerry Pinkney; Sometimes It’s Storks by LJR Kelly & the Brothers Hilts; A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston; Big and Small, Room for All by Jo Ellen Bogart & Gillian Newland; Pinduli by Janell Cannon; Magic Box by Katie Cleminson; All the Awake Animals are almost asleep by Crescent Dragonwagon & David McPhail; Bringing Down the Moon by Jonathan Emmett & Vanessa Cabban; The Third Gift by Linda Sue Park & Bagram Ibatoulline

July 7 - 8, 2017: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

July 8, 2017: The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers; The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers; Clovis Crawfish and His Friends by Mary Alice Fontenot & Keith Graves; A Bat Cannot Bat, a Stair Cannot Stare by Brian P Cleary & Martin Goneau; Clovis Crawfish and Fedora Field Mouse by Mary Alice Fontenot & Scott R Blazek; Be Quiet by Ryan T Higgins; The Dragon Prince by Laurence Yep & Kam Mak; The Shell Woman & the King by Laurence Yep & Yang Ming-Yi; Verdi by Janell Cannon; Wilfred by Ryan Higgins; Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz & Sydney Smith; The Boy Who Swallowed Snakes by Laurence Yep & Jean&Mou-Sien Tseng; The Khan’s Daughter by Laurence Yep & Jean&Mou-Sien Tseng

July 10, 2017: Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers; Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers; This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers; Cuddle Up, Goodnight by Katie Cleminson; Cat Knit by Jacob Grant

July 13, 2017: The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers; Bad Boys by Margie Palatini & Henry Cole; Chicken Big by Keith Graves; Stuck by Oliver Jeffers; How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers; Jack’s Garden by Henry Cole; Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer & Oliver Jeffers

July 14, 2017: Three Nasty Gnarlies by Keith Graves; The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers; Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance by Keith Graves; Livingstone Mouse by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole; Rosie’s Roses by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole; Puppy by Keith Graves; Armadillo Tattletale by Helen Ketterman & Keith Graves; Desert Rose and Her Highfalutin Hog by Alison Jackson & Keith Graves; Dinorella a Prehistoric Fairy Tale by Pamela Duncan Howard & Henry Cole; The Worrywarts by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole

July 15 - 26, 2017: Edward II the Unconventional King by Kathryn Warner

July 24, 2017: A Very Curious Bear by Tony Mitton & Paul Howard; Little Bird’s Bad Word by Jacob Grant; Scaredy Kate by Jacob Grant; While the World Is Sleeping by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Daniel Kirk

July 27, 2017: Hook by Ed Young; Diamond in the Snow by Jonathan Emmett & Vanessa Cabban; If… by Sarah Perry; The Girl Who Loved the Wind by Jane Yolen & Ed Young; All of You Was Singing by Richard Lewis & Ed Young; The Lost Horse by Ed Young; Petrouchka by Elizabeth Cleaver

July 28, 2017: A Strange Place to Call Home by Marilyn Singer & Ed Young; The Blue Songbird by Vern Kousky; A Ladder to the Stars by Simon Puttock & Alison Jay; The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed & Jim LaMarche

July 29, 2017: Nailheads & Potato Eyes by Cynthia Basil & Janet McCaffery; The Girl’s Like Spaghetti by Lynne Truss & Bonnie Timmons; This for That by Verna Aardema & Victoria Chess; All Ducks Are Birds (But Not All Birds Are Ducks) by Tara Michele Zrinski; Eats, Shoots, & Leaves by Lynne Truss & Bonnie Timmons

July 31, 2017: Tony by Ed Galing & Erin E. Stead

August 1, 2017: What If… by Anthony Browne; Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne; Twenty-Odd Ducks by Lynne Truss & Bonnie Timmons; A Cat Named Swan by Holly Hobbie; Into the Forest by Anthony Browne; The Seven Chinese Sisters by Kathy Tucker & Grace Lin

August 11, 2017: Nursery Tales Around the World by Judy Sierra & Stefano Vitale

August 11-12, 2017: I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr. Seuss

August 13, 2017: I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano; The Wisdom of Owls by Debbie Mumm; The Butterfly’s Treasure by Schim Schimmel

August 13 – 14, 2017: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving & Will Moses

August 14 – 15, 2017: Blackwater by Eve Bunting

August 15, 2017: The Red Tree by Shaun Tan; The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan; Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan; The Owl and the Lemming by Roselynn Akulukjuk & Amanda Sandland; The Butterfly Boy by Laurence Yep & Jeanne M. Lee

August 16 – 17, 2017: Weird but True by Leslie Gilbert Elman

August 18, 2017: Jeremiah Learns to Read by Jo Ellen Bogart & Laura Fernandez & Rick Jacobson; Princess Sophie and the Six Swans by Kim Jacobs; Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan; The Rabbits by John Marsden & Shaun Tan

August 21, 2017: the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace

August 22 – 26, 2017: The Clockwork Teddy by John J. Lamb

August 22 – 29, 2017: Choice Words by Peter H. Johnston;

August 25 – October 24, 2017: Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design Choosing Among Five Approaches by John W. Creswell & Cheryl N. Poth

August 30, 2017: Someday by Eileen Spinelli & Rosie Winstead; An Octopus Followed Me Home by Dan Yaccarino; Unlovable by Dan Yaccarino; The Little Bad Little Pig by Margaret Wise Brown & Dan Yaccarino; Cat Talk by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan Charest; Your Moon, My Moon by Patricia MacLachlan & Bryan Collier

September 3 - 9, 2017: The Mournful Teddy by John J. Lamb

September 9 -20, 2017: The False-Hearted Teddy by John J. Lamb

September 14, 2017: Painting the Wind by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan & Katy Schneider; I Am A Story by Dan Yaccarino; I Didn’t Do It by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan Charest & Katy Schneider; The Best Story by Eileen Spinelli & Anne Wilsdorf; What You Know First by Patricia MacLachlan & Barry Moser; The Moon’s Almost Here by Patricia MacLachlan & Tomie dePaola; A Squiggly Story by Andrew Larsen & Mike Lowery; The Word Collector by Sonja Wimmer; Someone Like Me by Patricia MacLachlan & Chris Sheban; Lala Salama A Tanzanian Lullaby by Patricia MacLachlan & Elizabeth Zunon

September 15, 2017: The Color of Home by Mary Hoffman & Karin Littlewood; Tell Me What to Dream About by Giselle Potter

September 16, 2017: The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles by Michelle Cuevas & Erin E. Stead

September 20 - 25, 2017: The Crafty Teddy by John J. Lamb

September 21, 2017: The Women at the Well by Grace Bauer; Bittle by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan & Dan Yaccarino; Kate and the Beanstalk by Mary Pope Osborne & Giselle Potter; That Book Woman by Heather Henson & David Small; The Year I Didn’t Go to School by Giselle Potter; Cecil the Pet Glacier by Matthea Harvey & Giselle Potter; Crush by Richard Siken

September 21 – October 3, 2017: 1491 New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

September 21 – October 19, 2017: The Poems of Emily Dickinson ed. by R.W. Franklin

September 25 - 30, 2017: The Treacherous Teddy by John J. Lamb

September 28, 2017: Playing from the Heart by Peter H. Reynolds; Happy Dreamer by Peter H. Reynolds; The Water Princess by Susan Verde & Peter H. Reynolds; I watched you disappear by Anya Krugovoy Silver

September 30, 2017: Trail of Stones by Gwen Strauss; Classic Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm by Francesca Rossi; Six Blind Mice and an Elephant by Jude Daly

October 1 - 5, 2017: Treasures in Dust by Tracey Porter

October 4 - 7, 2017: How To Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia

October 5, 2017: The Town In the Library by E. Nesbit; The Last of the Dragons by E. Nesbit & Peter Firmin; The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan K. Mitchell & Connie McLennan; Melisande by E. Nesbit & PJ Lynch; The Mysterious Traveler by Mal Peet, Elspeth Graham, & PJ Lynch; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by PJ Lynch; Jack and the Beanstalk by E. Nesbit & Matt Taveres; Louisiana Through My Lens by Chad Guidry & Yvette Naquin; The King of Ireland’s Son by Brendan Behan & PJ Lynch; Lionel and the Book of Beasts by E. Nesbit & Michael Hague; Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth by Douglas Wood & PJ Lynch; Llama Llama Time to Share by Anne Dewdney

October 6 - 8, 2017: Quotes That Will Change Your Life ed. by Russ Kick

October 6, 2017: Tashi and the Forbidden Room by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, & Kim Gamble; Who Said by Jennifer Michael Hecht; From Nothing by Anya Krugovoy Silver; Catkin by Antonia Barber & PJ Lynch; Splat Says Thank You by Rob Scotton; The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler; Hey That’s My Monster by Amanda Noll & Howard McWilliam

October 7, 2017: Tashi by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, & Kim Gamble; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Jon Erickson & Jan Morgensen; Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Cynthia Rylant & Jen Corace; The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy; Transformations by Anne Sexton; My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett; Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett; The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett

October 8 - 27, 2017: Voodoo Queen the Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward

October 12, 2017: The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Adrian Mitchell & Jonathan Heale; There Once Was a Boy Called Tashi by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, & Kim Gamble; Russel’s Christmas Magic by Rob Scotton; Love, Splat by Rob Scotton; The Straw Maid by Anita Lobel; Splish, Splash, Splat by Rob Scotton; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Joohee Yoon; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Thomas Di Grazia

October 13, 2017: Splat the Cat and the Late Library Book by Cari Meister & Robert Eberz; Russell and the Lost Treasure by Rob Scotton; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Paul Galdone; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Rachel Isadora

October 17, 2017: The Frog Princess by Elizabeth Isle & Michael Hague

October 18 – 19, 2017: The Swan’s Stories by Hans Christian Anderson, Brian Alderson, & Chris Riddell

October 19, 2017: The Crucible by Arthur Miller; Eve’s Red Dress by Diane Lockward; Poisoned Apples Poems for You My Pretty by Christine Heppermann; Voices of the Trojan War by Kate Hovey & Leonid Gore; the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace

October 21, 2017: The Foxwood Surprise by Cynthia & Brian Paterson; The Foxwood Smugglers by Cynthia & Brian Paterson; The Fairies by William Allingham & Michael Hague; Calendarbears by Kathleen & Michael Hague; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Fred Marcellino & To Seidler; The Unicorn Alphabet by Marianna Meyer & Michael Hague; Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton; Michael Hague’s Treasury of Christmas Carols; Splat and the Cool School Trip by Rob Scotton; Robbery at Foxwood by Cynthia & Brian Paterson; The Foxwood Kidnap by Cynthia & Brian Paterson; The Foxwood Regatta by Cynthia & Brian Paterson

October 23, 2017: Speaking of Art Colorful Quotes by Famous Painters ed. by Bob Raczka; Secret Agent Splat by Rob Scotton; Marilyn’s Monster by Michelle Knudsen & Matt Phelan; The Foxwood Treasure by Cynthia & Brian Paterson

October 24, 2017: Into the Dark & Emptying Field by Rachel McKibbens; Argus by Michelle Knudson & Andrea Wesson; Rainbow in the Cloud the Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou

October 25, 2017: Quotes Every Man Should Know ed. Nick Mamatas

October 27, 2017: A Birthday for Bear by Bonny Becker & Kady MacDonald Denton; Druthers by Matt Phelan; Flora’s Very Windy Day by Jeanne Birdsall & Matt Phelan; Cloud Country by Noah Klocek & Bonny Becker; What Are You Waiting For? By Scott Menchin & Matt Phelan; The New Girl by Jacqui Robbins & Matt Phelan; Have a Look, Says Book by Richard Jackson & Kevin Hawkes; The Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen & Kevin Hawkes; Always by Ann Stott & Matt Phelan; The Christmas Crocodile by Bonny Becker & David Small; I’ll Be There by Ann Stott & Matt Phelan; Dogosaurus Rex by Anna Staniszewski & Kevin Hawkes; A Library Book for Bear by Bonny Becker & Kady MacDonald Denton; The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky & Kevin Hawkes; How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz

November 1, 2017: The Sniffles for Bear by Bonny Becker & Katy MacDonald Denton; Just a Minute by Bonny Becker & Jack E Davis; A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young by Halfdan Rasmussen, Marilyn Nelson, Pamela Espeland, & Kevin Hawkes; Very Hairy Bear by Alice Schertle & Matt Phelan; A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker & Kady MacDonald Denton; Xander’s Panda Party by Linda Sue Park & Matt Phelan; A Bedtime for Bear by Bonny Becker & Kady MacDonald Denton

November 2, 2017: Dreamland by Roni Schotter & Kevin Hawkes; Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch by Anne Isaacs & Kevin Hawkes; This Beautiful Day by Richard Jackson & Suzy Lee; Bartleby Speaks by Robin Cruise & Kevin Hawkes; When Giants Come to Play by Andrea Beaty & Kevin Hawkes; Me, All Alone at the End of the World by MT Anderson & Kevin Hawkes; In Plain Sight by Richard Jackson & Jerry Pinkney

November 3, 2017: Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison & Kevin Hawkes

November 6 - 8, 2017: Wunderkammer by Cynthia Cruz

November 8, 2017: The Library of Alexandria by Kelly Trumble & Robina MacIntyre Marshall; Ruin by Cynthia Cruz

November 9, 2017: Averno by Louisa Gluck; The Land of Froud ed. by David Larkin; Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman & Kevin Hawkes; And to Think that We Thought that We’d Never Be Friends by Mary Ann Hoberman & Kevin Hawkes; A Thanksgiving Comedy Turk and Runt by Lisa Wheeler & Frank Ansley; Over There by Steve Pilcher; All Ears, All Eyes by Richard Jackson & Katherine Tillotson

November 10, 2017: What’s the Hurry, Fox? And Other Animal Stories

November 10 - 14, 2017: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

November 16, 2017: Humble Pie by Jennifer Donnelly & Stephen Gammel; Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman & Divya Srinivasn; Little Rabbit’s New Baby by Harry Horse; Here She Is! By Catherine LeBlanc & Eve Tharlet

November 17, 2017: Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back by Joseph Bruchac, Jonathan London, & Thomas Locker

November 20, 2017: blinking with fists by Billy Corgan

November 20 – 21, 2017: Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy

November 21, 2017: If Animals Kissed Goodnight by Ann Whitford Paul & David Walker; Anything for You by John Wallace & Harry Horse; Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; Dragons Love Tacos 2 The Sequel by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; A Friend for Little Bear by Harry Horse; Aida by Leontyne Price, Leo Dillon, & Diane Dillon; Little Rabbit Goes to School by Harry Horse; Will You Still Love Me If…? By Catherine Leblanc & Eve Tharlet; Little Rabbit Lost by Harry Horse; Big Bad Bubble by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; One for All, All for One by Brigitte Weninger & Eve Tharlet; Little Rabbit Runaway by Harry Horse; A Ball for All by Brigitte Weninger & Eve Tharlet; Little Rabbit’s Christmas by Harry Horse; A Promise Is a Promise by Knister & Eve Tharlet

November 22, 2017: Last Psalm at Sea Level by Meg Day; A Child Is a Child by Brigitte Weninger & Eve Tharlet; Dear Dragon by Josh Funk & Rodolof Montalvo; Human Rights by Joseph Lease; A Man In My Position by Norman MacCaig

November 22 - 26, 2017: 24 Stories for Advent by Brigitte Weninger & Eve Tharlot

November 23, 2017: where the apple falls by Samiya Bashir

November 24, 2017: Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines by Natalie Wee; The Spring Rabbit by Joyce Dunbar & Susan Varley; She Persisted 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger; The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse by Miriam Norton & Garth Williams

November 25, 2017: Uppity Women Speak Their Minds by Vicki Leon

November 28, 2017: Grumbles from the Forest Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist by Jane Yolen, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, & Matt Mahurin; This Book Will Not Be Fun by Cirocco Dunlap & Olivier Tallec; The Elf’s Hat by Brigitte Weninger & John A. Rowe; Ragged Bear by Brigitte Weninger & Alan Marks; Lumina by Brigitte Weninger & Julie Wintz-Litty; Bye-Bye Binky by Brigitte Weninger & Yusuke Yonezu; Goodnight Nori by Brigitte Weninger & Yusuke Yonezu; Don’t Blink by Tom Booth;

November 28 - 30, 2017: War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

November 29, 2017: Imagine That How Dr. Seuss Wrote the Cat in the Hat by Judy Sierra & Kevin Hawkes; Apex Predators by Steve Jenkins

November 29 - 30, 2017: Heroines Great Women Through the Ages by Rebecca Hazell

November 30 – December 2, 2017: Garfield at Large by Jim Davis

December 2, 2017: Sister Day by Lisa Mantchev & Sonia Sanchez; Meet the Dullards by Sara Pennypacker & Daniel Salmieri; The Whisper by Pamela Zagarenski; Henry & Leo by Pamela Zagarenski; Someday, Narwhal by Lisa Mantchev & Hyewon Yum; Happy Birthday, Cupcake by Terry Border; Milk Goes to School by Terry Border

December 3, 2017: Peanut Butter & Cupcake by Terry Border; Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue & Pamela Zagarenski; Red Sings from Treetops A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman & Pamela Zagarenski

December 4 - 7, 2017: A Book about Names by Milton Meltzer & Mischa Richter

December 5, 2017: The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken; Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev & Taeeun Yoo; Temple Cat by Andrew Clements & Kate Kiesler

December 7, 2017: The Christmas Teddy Bear by Ivan Gantschev; Those Darn Squirrels by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; Those Darn Squirrels and the Cat Next Door by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; Those Darn Squirrels Fly South by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; Anklet for a Princess a Cinderella Story from India by Lila Mehta, Meredith Brucker, & Youshan Tang; The Jade Necklace by Paul Yee & Grace Lin; If the Shoe Fits Voices from Cinderella by Laura Whipple & Laura Beingessner; This Is Just to Say Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman & Pamela Zagarenski; Cinderella by Diane Goode; Cinderella by Amy Ehrlich & Susan Jeffers; Something about a Bear by Jackie Morris

December 8, 2017: The Gospel Cinderella by Joyce Carol Thomas & David Diaz; The Red Thread an Adoption Fairy Tale by Grace Lin; Mariana and the Merchild by Caroline Pitcher & Jackie Morris; The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo & Ruth Heller; Sun and Moon Folk Tales by Various Artists; Cinderella by Sarah L. Thomson & Nicoletta Ceccoli; The Cat and the Fiddle a Treasure of Nursery Rhymes by Jackie Morris; I Am Cat by Jackie Morris; Lord of the Forest by Caroline Pitcher & Jackie Morris; The Snow Leopard by Jaackie Morris; The Seal Children by Jackie Morris; The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin; The Gift by Carol Ann Duffy & Rob Ryan; Cinderella by Paul Galdone; Cinderella by Peter Elwell & Jada Rowland; The Time of the Lion by Caroline Pitcher & Jackie Morris

December 8 - 12, 2017: Out of the Ark Stories from the World’s Religions by Anita Ganeri & Jackie Morris

December 12, 2017: Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris; The Sea King's Daughter by Aaron Shepard & Gennady Spirin; Song of the Golden Hare by Jackie Morris; The Bad Seed by Jory John & Pete Oswald; Savitri a Tale of Ancient India by Aaron Shepard & Vera Rosenberry; The Ice Bear by Jackie Morris; A Small Book of Unicorns by Jay Burch & Josephine Bradley; King o’ the Cats by Aaron Shepard & Kristin Sorra; Silence by Lemniscates

December 12 - 20, 2017: Hatching Magic by Ann Downer

December 13, 2017: Sweet Dreams, Bruno by Knister & Eve Tharlot; Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry; The Seal Mother by Mordicai Gerstein; Abadeha The Philippine Cinderella by Myrna J. de la Paz & Youshan Tang; The Princess Mouse a Tale of Finland by Aaron Shepard & Leonid Gore; One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes! A Very Grimm Fairy Tale by Aaron Shepard & Gary Clement; The Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo & Robert Florczak; The Magic Brocade a Tale of China by Aaron Shepard & Xiaojun Li; The Crystal Heart a Vietnamese Legend by Aaron Shepard & Joseph Daniel Fiedler

December 14, 2017: Cendrillon A Cajun Cinderella by Sheila Hebert Collins & Patrick Soper; Blanchette et les Sept Petits Cajuns A Cajun Snow White by Sheila Hebert Collins & Patrick Soper; How the Stars Fell into the Sky A Navajo Legend by Jerrie Oughton & Lisa Desimini; Older Brother, Younger Brother A Korean Folktale by Nina Jaffe & Wenhai Ma; The Magic Weaver of Rugs A Tale of the Navajo by Jerrie Oughton & Lisa Desimini; Penguin Problems by Jory John & Lane Smith; I Love You Already by Jory John & Benji Davies; The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems by Jackie Morris; A Treasury of Mermaids Mermaid Tales from around the World by Shirley Climo and Jean&Mou-sien Tseng; Kongi and Potgi A Cinderella Story from Korea by Oki S. Han; The Golden Flower a Taino Myth from Puerto Rico by Nina Jeffe & Enrigue O. Sanchez; The First Strawberries a Cherokee Story by Joseph Bruchac & Anna Vojteck; Thumbelina by Brian Pinkney; Jolie Blonde and the Three Heberts by Sheila Hebert Collins & Patrick Soper; The Korean Cinderella by Shirley Climo & Ruth Heller; One Cheetah, One Cherry by Jackie Morris; Quit Calling Me a Monster by Jory John & Bob Shea; Princess Furball by Charlotte Huck & Anita Lobel; Wilfred by Ryan Higgins; Cendrillon a Caribbean Cinderella by Robert D. San Souci & Brian Pinkney; The Story of the Milky Way a Cherokee Tale by Joseph Bruchach, Gayle Ross, & Virginia A. Stroud; Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss; The Magic Fish by Freya Littledale & Winslow Pinney Pels; The Lost Dinosaur Bone by Mercer Mayer; Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs by Freya Littledale & Susan Jeffers; The Monster Bed by Jeanne Willis & Susan Varley; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett & Ron Barrett; The Unicorn of the West by Alma Flor Ada & Abigail Pizer

December 15, 2017: Scrambled Eggs Super by Dr. Seuss; The Dream Collector by Troon Harrison and Alan&Lea Daniel; Bear Feels Scared by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman; The Antlered Ship by Dashka Slater & The Fan Brothers; Ike’s Incredible Ink by Brianne Farley

December 16 - 19, 2017: Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

December 17, 2017: Know-It-Alls Wolves; We Are Wolves by Molly Grooms & Lucia Guarnotta; The Tale of the Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt & Tim Jonke; The Legend of the Three Trees by Catherine McCafferty & Gene ‘n Geppy Productions; The Penguin Who Wanted to Sparkle by Kath Smith & Sophie Groves; Antarctic Antics a Book of Penguin Poems by July Sierra, Jose Aruego, & Ariane Dewey; Mary, Did You Know? By Mark Lowry & Phil Boatwright; Clovis Crawfish and His Friends by Mary Alice Fontenot & R. A. Keller

December 17 - 18, 2017: The Word Play Almanac by O. V. Michaelsen

December 18, 2017: The Little Drummer Boy by Katherine Davis, Henry Onoratt, Harry Simone, & Kristina Rodanas; Kiviuq and the Mermaids by Noel McDermott & Toma Feizo Gas; hello sunshine a little book of happy by Freya Ete; The Legend of the Jersey Devil by Trinka Hakes Noble & Gerald Kelley; The Frog Prince by Paul Galdone; The Drummer Boy by SooHyeon Min & Peggy Nille; The Turtle and the Monkey by Paul Galdone; King of the Birds by Shirley Climo & Ruth Heller; Nobody Rides the Unicorn by Adrian Mitchell & Stephen Lambert; The Sea Serpent and Me by Dashka Slater & Catia Chien; Kamik an Inuit Puppy Story by Donald Uluadluak & Qin Leng; Hansy’s Mermaid by Trinka Hakes Noble; The People of Twelve Thousand Winters by Trinka Hakes Noble & Jim Madsen

December 19, 2017: Antigonick by Sophokles translated by Anne Carson; Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus translated by George Thomson; Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish & Fritz Siebel; Amelia Bedelia and the Baby by Peggy Parish & Lynn Sweat; Good Work, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish & Lynn Sweat; Monster Goose by Judy Sierra & Jack E. Davis; Once Upon a Mouse by Lockie Holt & Amye Rosenberg; This Great Unknowing Last Poems by Denise Levertov; milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

December 19 - 21, 2017: Sisters of Glass by Stephanie Hemphill; Fooling around with Shakespeare by Glenda Richmond Slater & Dale Goss Mozley

December 20, 2017: Can You Guess My Name? by Judy Sierra & Stefano Vitale; Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

December 21, 2017: The Christmas House by Carol Bullman & Jim Madsen; The King’s Tea by Trinka Hakes Noble; Tuko and the Birds a Tale from the Philippines by Shirley Climo & Francisco X. Mora; When I Was Little Like You by Jill Paton Walsh & Stephen Lambert; It’s a Book by Lane Smith; A Perfect Day by Lane Smith; Tuki and Moka a Tale of Two Tamarins by Judy Young & Jim Madsen; Grandpa Green by Lane Smith; Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam & Lane Smith; There Is a Tribe of Kids by Lane Smith; Fly by Night by June Crebbin & Stephen Lambert

December 21 – 22: Louisa the Poisoner by Tanith Lee

December 22, 2017: Day Dreamers a Journey of Imagination by Emily Winfield Martin; The Little Drummer Boy by Katherine Davis, Henry Onoratt, Harry Simone, & Ezra Jack Keats; The Littlest Family’s Big Day by Emily Winfield Martin; Sam & Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen; Dream Animals a Bedtime Journey by Emily Winfield Martin; The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin

December 22 - 24, 2017: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl; A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

December 23, 2017: Ariel The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath; Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst & Lane Smith; Glasses who needs ‘em? By Lane Smith; The Crossing by Donna Jo Napoli & Jim Madsen; Brother Wolf a Seneca Tale by Harriet Peck Taylor; The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka & Steve Johnson; Triangle by Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen; That’s Me Loving You by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Teagan White; Princess Hyacinth (the Surprising Tale of a Girl who Floated) by Florence Parry Heide & Lane Smith; The Big Pets by Lane Smith; Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies by Harriet Peck Taylor; Coyote Places the Stars by Harriet Peck Taylor; Cowboy & Octopus by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

December 23 - 29, 2017: The Bhagavad-Gita Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War translated by Barbara Stoler Miller

December 24, 2017: Sarah’s Unicorn by Bruce&Katherine Coville; How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers; Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers; The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers; The Velveteen Rabbit the Classic Edition by Margery Williams Bianco & Charles Santore; East of the Sun & West of the Moon by Mercer Mayer; The Beastly Visits by Mitra Modarressi; The Last Bit Bear by Sandra Chisholm Robinson & Ellen Ditzler Meloy; Dear Children of the Earth a Letter from Home by Schim Schimmel; Monster Stew by Mitra Modarressi; Children of the Earth… Remember by Schim Schimmel; The Family of Earth by Schim Schimmel; Owlet’s First Flight by Mitra Modarressi; Stone Soup by Ann Mcgovern & Winslow Pinney Pels; Oddfellow’s Orphanage by Emily Winfield Martin

December 24 – 28, 2017: Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin

December 25, 2017: A Treasury of Peter Rabbit and Other Stories by Beatrix Potter; Petrouchka the Story of the Ballet by John Collier & Vivian Werner; The Random House Book of Stories from the Ballet by Geraldine McCaughrean & Angela Barrett; A Ring of Tricksters Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa by Virginia Hamilton & Barry Moser

December 26, 2017: Zoe’s Cats by Zoe Stokes; This Morning I Held a Rose by Tina Hacker & Anne Jaeschke; a couple of local boys by George Rodrigue & Gus Well; Constellations by Larry Sessions; Singing Away the Dark by Caroline Woodward & Julie Morstad; Swan the Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder & Julie Morstad; The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris van Allsburg; Just a Dream by Chris van Allsburg; While You Were Napping by Jenny Offill & Barry Blitt; Boo Who? By Ben Clanton; We Are the Dinosaurs by Laurie Berkner & Ben Clanton; The Table Sets Itself by Ben Clanton; It Came in the Mail by Ben Clanton; Adventures with Barefoot Critters An ABC Book by Teagan White; Bunny Roo, I Love You by Melissa Marr & Teagan White; Counting with Barefoot Critters by Teagan White; Something Extraordinary by Ben Clanton

December 27, 2017: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz & Robert Byrd

December 27 – 28, 2017: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

December 28, 2017: Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman; Bruce’s Big Move by Ryan T. Higgins; Bertolt by Jacques Goldstyn; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Randall Jarrell & Nancy Ekholm Burkert; Draw the Line by Kathryn Otoshi; Big Wolf & Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec; The Grumpy Pets by Kristine A. Lombardi; Hurricane by David Wiesnir; Sunday Chutney by Aaron Blabey; Good night, laila tov by Laurel Snyder & Jui Ishida; The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams & Graham Percy; Inside the Slidy Diner by Laurel Snyder & Jaime Zollars; Lovey Bunny by Kristine A. Lombardi; Found You, Little Wombat! By Angela McAllister & Charles Fuge; Good Day, Good Night by Margaret Wise Brown & Loren Long; Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea; The Nutcracker in Harlem by TE McMorrow & James Ransome; Beauty and the Beast by Jan Brett; The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone; Twinkle, Twinkle An Animal Lover’s Mother Goose by Bobbi Fabian; Rumpelstiltskin by Paul Galdone; Sometimes We Think You Are a Monkey by Johanna Skibsrud, Sarah Blacker, & Julie Morstad; Two Bad Ants by Chris van Allsburg; Letters to a Prisoner by Jacques Goldstyn; Big Wolf & Little Wolf the Little Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec; Franklin’s Flying Bookshop by Jen Campbell & Katie Harnett; Hedgehugs by Steve Wilson & Lucy Tapper; Hedgehugs Autumn Hide-and-Squeek by Steve Wilson & Lucy Tapper; Jumanji by Chris van Allsburg; Hedgehugs and the Hattiepillar by Steve Wilson & Lucy Tappers; Big Wolf & Little Wolf Such a Beautiful Orange by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec; Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey

December 28 - 30, 2017: Trickster Native American Tales a Graphic Collection; Disenchantments An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry ed. by Wolfgang Mieder

December 29, 2017: Sky Sisters by Jan Bourdeau & Brian Deines; Thumbelina by James Riordan & Wayne Anderson; When Green Becomes Tomatoes Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano & Julie Morstad; Art Up Close from Ancient to Modern by Clair d’Harcourt; The Mare’s Egg by Carole Spray & Kim La Fave; The Black Geese a Baba Yaga Story from Russia by Alison Lurie & Jessica Souhami; Yeh-Shen a Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling’Louie & Ed Young; Rapunzel by Amy Ehrlic & Chris Waldherr; The Elves and the Shoemaker by Margaret Walty; The Trojan Horse by Warrick Hutton; The Princess and the Pea by Paul Galdone; A Frog Prince by Alix Berenzy; Puss in Boots by Paul Galdone; The Three Little Pigs by James Marshall; Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman; Hansel and Gretel by James Marshall; Otto Runs for President by Rosemary Wells; Kindergators Miracle Melts Down by Rosemary Wells; Jack and the Beanstalk by Rosemary Wells & Norman Messenger; Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells; Bamboo for Me, Bamboo for You by Fran Manushkin & Purificacion Hernandez; The Forgotten Pumpkin by Hugh G Earnhart & Susan Ertel; Mouse by Zebo Ludvicek; You’re All Kinds of Wonderful by Nancy Tillman; Elmer and the Tune by David McKee; I Can’t Sleep! By Owen Hart & Caroline Pedler; Where, oh where, is baby bear? By Ashley Wolf; Platypus by Sue Whiting & Mark Jackson; The King and the Magician by Jorge Bucay & Gusti; Knitty Kitty by David Elliot & Christopher Denise; Sometimes I Like to Curl up in a Ball by Vicki Churchill & Charles Fuge; Moonlight by Helen V Griffith & Laura Dronzek; C is for City by Nikki Grimes & Pat Cummings; Wolf Won’t Bite! By Emily Gravett; Zathura by Chris van Allsburg; Who Goes There? By Karma Wilson & Anna Currey; A Frog in the Bog by Joan Rankin & Karma Wilson; June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner; Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner; Tuesday by David Wiesner; The Three Pigs by David Wiesner; Mama, Why? By Karma Wilson & Simon Mendez; The Longest Night a Passover Story by Laurel Snyder & Catia Chien

December 30, 2017: The Pretext by Rae Armantrout; The Enemies of Leisure by John Gery; Dance of the Swan a Story about Anna Pavlova by Barbara Allman & Shelly O. Haas; Sparky by Jenny Offill & Chris Appelhans; Sylvia Plath Drawings; Richard Scarry’s The Animals’ Merry Christmas; Charlie & Mouse by Laurel Snyder & Emily Hughes; Sammy the Classroom Guinea Pig by Alix Berenzy; The Man Who Loved Books by Jean Fritz & Trina S Hyman; The Ice Cream King by Steve Metzger & Julie Downing; The Snow Angel by Angela McAllister & Claire Fletcher; One Winter’s Day by M Christina Butler & Tina Macnaughton; The Winter Fox by Timothy Knapman & Rebecca Harry; First Snow by Peter McCarty; The Not So Quiet Library by Zachariah Ohora; The Brave Little Seamstress by Mary Pope Osborne & Giselle Potter; The Forest by Claire A Nivola; Dinosaur Christmas by Jerry Pallotta & Howard McWilliam; Thumper’s Little Sisters by Walt Disney; Anna Is Our Babysitter by Brittany Candua & the Disney Storybook Art Team; Snowy Valentine by David Petersen; Animals Aboard by Andrew Fusek Peters & Jim Coplestone; October Smiled Back by Lisa Westberg Peters & Ed Young; The No-No Bird by Andrew Fusek Peters, Polly Peters, & Jim Coplestone; Little Flower by Gloria Rand & RW Alley; Scaredy Cat by Joan Rankin; I am so Handsome by Mario Ramos; Buddy and Earl go to School by Maureen Fergus & Carey Sookocheff; The Sandwich Swap by Rania Al Abdullah, Kelly DiPucchio, & Tricia Tusa; Our Kid by Tony Ross; I Don’t Want to be a Frog by Dev Petty & Mike Boldt; I Don’t Want to be Big by Dev Petty & Mike Boldt; Tricky by Kari Rust; Odd One Out by Danille Chaperon & Iris; The Best Tailor in Pinbaue by Eymard Toledo; Here Is Big Bunny by Steve Henry; Many the Diversity of Life on Earth by Nicola Davies & Emily Sutton; Theophobia by Bruce Beasley; It’s Happy Bunny What’s Your Sign? By Jim Benton; Confessions to My Mother by Cathy Guisewite; The Soul Bird by Michal Snunit; Delivered by Sarah Gambito; Partially Kept by Martha Ronk; And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou; I Am Phoenix by Paul Fleischman & Ken Nutt; Night by Etel Adnan; The 13th Sunday after Pentecost by Joseph Bathanti

December 31, 2017: Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park; Shane by Jack Schaefer; Animal Farm by George Orwell; precis by Jose Felipe Alvergue; Lullaby (with Exit Sign) by Hadara Bar-Nadav; Tales of the Mushroom Folk by Signe Aspelin; Lessons of a Turtle (the little book of life) by Sandy Gingras; Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry; Trio the Tale of a Three-legged Cat by Andrea Wisnewski; Minty a Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Ala Schroeder & Jerry Pinkney; Next Year Hope in the Dust by Ruth Vander Zee & Gary Kelley; The Boy and the Whale by Mordicai Gerstein; Tobor by Guido van Genechten

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MESSAGE IN HONOR OF THE 72ND YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE RAISING OF THE NATIONAL FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOP THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT SURIBACHI IN IWO JIMA

Ladies and gentlemen, to all the people of the United States of America, to all our living veterans of the Second World War of 1939-1945 and of all conflicts past and present and their families, to our veterans, active servicemen and women and reservists of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and of the entire United States Armed Forces, to all the immediate families, relatives, children and grandchildren of the deceased veterans, fallen service personnel and wounded personnel of our military services and civil uniformed security and civil defense services, to all our workers, farmers and intellectuals, to our youth and personnel serving in youth uniformed and cadet organizations and all our athletes, coaches, judges, sports trainers and sports officials, and to all our sports fans, to all our workers of culture, music, traditional arts and the theatrical arts, radio, television, digital media and social media, cinema, heavy and light industry, agriculture, business, tourism and the press, and to all our people of the free world: Today, the whole world remembers among others the arrival in 1778 of the great Prussian general Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben to the Continental Army quarters in Valley Forge, the beginning of the historic siege of The Alamo in 1836, and the anniversary of the 1847 Battle of Buena Vista, the 1905 formation of the Rotary Club, the beginning of the February Revolution and the formation of the Federal Communications Commission in 1917, the Miracle on Ice of 1980 and the attempted coup by several officers of the Spanish Civil Guard in the Cortes in 1981.

Today we join in the celebrations of the forty-seventh anniversary since the declaration of the Republic of Guayana in 1970 and the thirty-third year anniversary of the independence of Brunei Darussalam in 1984, as well as the 3rd year anniversary of the closing of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games and the victory of the Ukrainian Euromaidan Revolution of 2014. On this day in 1918, within days of the passing of a decree in the Council of People’s Commissars officially declaring the formation of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and the start of a mass national service draft nationwide, hundreds of thousands of men especially from the industrial sectors that helped win the October Revolution continued pouring into recruiting stations for a fourth straight day to apply for their national service obligation as soldiers of the WPRA in the midst of the threats of all out civil war, from 1919 onward this day is celebrated as Fatherland Defenders Day all across the former Soviet Union save for the Baltics, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, in memory today of all men and women who served their country in the military services. On this day in 1945 the Red Army and the Polish Armed Forces in the East ended the Nazi occupation of Poznan, the Philippine capital city of Manila was liberated from the Japanese despite its wartime damages and at the cost of so many lives, the Los Banos internment camp in the namesake town in Laguna Province was found and its POWs then liberated by a joint force of Filipino guerillas and American soldiers from the US Army’s 11th Airborne Division, and the RAF Bomber Command destroyed Pforzheim from the air. And so today, in these changing times, as we await with joyful anticipation the announcement of the winners of the 2017 Academy Awards and for the beginning of the United States NASCAR season for this year, we celebrate as one united people the anniversary of an historic event in the 242 years of the United States Marine Corps and in the 241 year history of this great country, the United States of America: the seventy-second anniversary of the raising of the national flag on the peak of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima. What we are celebrating today is now in the clear light of the recent revelation of the United States Marine Corps which was made public on June 23 this past year thanks to efforts made by historians and history experts and resource persons concerned, ending years of speculation and mystery surrounding the events of this this battle that is, for all generations, part of the history of not just the Corps, but of the United States Armed Forces, which this year marks 70 years since their modern formation with the foundation of the United States Department of Defense. It can be recalled that four days ago, after months of long preparation, on Februrary 19, 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima began when the Marines of V Amphibious Corps under the command of General Holland Smith and composed of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions, United States Marine Corps, landed on Iwo Jima’s sandy beaches and so began what would be without a doubt one of the bloodiest and biggest battles fought in the Pacific Theater of Operations, the very battle that will forever change the face of the USMC for generations to come. Wave after wave of Marines from that corps, supported by naval gunfire and air attacks, began to pound the Japanese forces garrisoned in the island, as well as in the Japanese airfield built some years ago in the southeast of the island. Within an hour after the beginning of this historic campaign, at around 1000h, the Marines began to advance on the Japanese airfield. And just as the 1st Battalion of the 27th Marine Regiment led by their battalion CO LTCOL John Butler and battalion XO Major Justin Duryea approached the Japanese defenses south of the airfield runway, the battalion witnessed what happened next: the final and ultimate sacrifice of one of the greatest Allied heroes of the Second World War and of the United States Marine Corps, no less than Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, who was by then assigned as a machine gunner with Charlie Company under the battalion. It has been a century since he was born in Raritan in New Jersey, within miles from New York City and its bright lights and skyscrapers, but his calling was in our armed forces, and thus in the mid-1930s that young Italian American man first served in the United States Army while being deployed to the Philippines with the 36th Infantry Regiment in Fort McKinley near Manila, and in 1940 joined the ranks of the 7th Marine Regiment, First Marine Division, and thus in this historic unit as a machine gunner with Charlie Company of its 1st Battalion had already been fighting for his country during the actions of the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942-43 especially during the Japanese attempts to attack Marine positions near Henderson Field in late October 1942 – the diamond jubillee anniversary of this historic event we will mark as one united people this coming October - therefore earning him for the actions he committed that helped stop the Japanese the highest medal for bravery in the United States Armed Forces, the Congressional Medal of Honor, and within months of his return to the Corps after joining the 1943 War Bonds Tour, being assigned to this historic unit of the 5th Marine Division stationed in Oceanside, California , because of being a target of Japanese mortar fire on his position, gave his life for the defense of his country the United States of America, and for the liberation of all the peoples of the Asia-Pacific from years of suffering and hardship under the iron hands of the Empire of Japan, its government and armed services, in front of his two fellow Marines, machine gunner Private First Class Charles “Chuck” Tatum and Private First Class Steve Evanson from Baker Company 1/27, and as a result of his sacrifice and the American capture of the air base would reward him with a posthumous award of the Navy Cross –his posthumous award would mark the very first time ever that an enlisted serviceman and non-commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps had in the process had received two of the highest United States Armed Forces medals for bravery and courage under fire in the service of the people of the United States of America and in the wartime defense of the American people and of the the nation he swore to serve at the cost of his very own life. Today, we remember him and the hundreds of Marines, sailors and Coast Guardsmen, both living and dead, who were awarded state orders, medals and decorations of the armed forces and government of the United States for their actions in this great chapter of our history. (This scene was reenacted in episode 8 of the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, which premiered in March of 2010, with the roles of the men being played by Jon Seda, Ben Esler and Dwight Braswell.) And on this day, 72 years ago, 4 days after the beginning of the battle that will forever define the history of the USMC, came the day that will forever be a part of the history of the Corps, the armed forces, and the entire United States of America, a day that will be a memorable part of the victorious Iwo Jima campaign. For it was on this very historic day that an historic instruction was given on this very day by the then Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal who had by then arrived at the island to check on the process of the battle and the military campaign for the liberation of Iwo Jima. He had informed GEN Smith when he approached him that his corps, upon the capture of top of Mount Suribachi by its units, would shoulder the task of hoisting on the summit the national flag of the United States of America to ensure to the American people, the Allied military forces and all the people of the free world that a “United States Marine Corps lasting for the next 500 years” will be the defender of the American nation it helped to build and the free world it has always pledged to defend and protect at all costs, helping propel the Allies to the final victory over the Axis in this part of the world, and thus, at 10:20am that very morning, upon receiving this historic decision, gave the historic order to the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment of the 5th Marine Division, with Lieutenant Colonel Chandler Johnson as its commanding officer, after telling him that that Mount Suribachi had already fell to US hands and the USMC would commence follow up operations to stop Japanese resistance in the mountain areas where the Japanese had bulit makeshift bunkers and tunnels. The battalion commander, faced with the heavy responsibility of performing this historic great responsibility not just for his battalion, but for his regiment, division, the Corps, the armed forces and his country, assigned Easy Company 1/27 as the unit to do so, commanded by its company commanding officer, Captain Dave Severance. The company was tasked to lead this historic undertaking spearheaded by its 3rd Platoon under its new commander and company executive officer 1Lt Harold G. Schrier (who took over command of the platoon as its past commander was pulled out due to wounds sustained in the battle). His orders were to deploy a 40-man platoon formation to secure the recently captured summit of Mount Suribachi, in addition they would be the one unit responsible for raising the national colors on it as what Secretary Forrestal had recommended. Later on, the battalion command assigned the then battalion adjutant 1LT George G. Wells to handle the task of finding the needed national flag (in other versions it was LTCOL Johnson who himself shouldered the process) and then he went to the beaches to find the battalion LST, the USS Missoula, and arrived aboard to see if its flag will take the role as the icing on the cake. After receiving permission from its commander, the flag was obtained and Lieutenant Wells, holding the flag, then went to the CP handing it over to LTCOL Johnson, who then handed over to him an old ex-Japanese water pipe as the pole, and then gave both to Lieutenant Schrier and his platoon, ready to be raised atop the summit. Later in the morning, the 40-man team from 3rd Platoon, Easy Company, joined by Marine combat photographer SSGT Louis R. Lowery from Leatherneck Magazine, secured Mount Suribachi’s peak. And then with the flag and the pipe ready, the first national flag was hoisted, which was done by Schrier together with SSGT Henry “Hank” Hansen, assisted by PHM2C James Bradley, PSGT Ernest I. Thomas Jr., CPLs Charles Lindberg and Harold Schultz, PFCs James Robertson and Raymond Jacobs and PVT Phil Ward, all of Easy Company, in the presence of Secretary Forrestal and to the cheers of the sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, with Lowery providing the iconic photograph for that event and the rest of the 40-man team performing mopping up operations against any Japanese attempt to sabotage it from the slopes. (That very flag raising itself would cost Schrier his Navy Cross, together with his later awarded Silver Star for his actions later in the campaign.) Surprised by the outcome of the event, Secretary Forrestal then approached LTCOL Johnson with permission to hand over the flag and then display it in the Pentagon in the secretary’s office desk. The offer to hand the flag over to the Navy Department was rejected, since the battalion had owned the flag which had been hoisted earlier. Later, at around 1100h that same morning, with the top of Suribachi safe LTCOL Johnson gave order to several Easy Company, 2/28 Marines to lay the telegraph lines on the mountain and to get the needed walkie-talkies for the battalion CP on its foothills. These Marines who complied – all of them from the same platoon from Easy Company - were SGT Michael Strank, CPL Harlon Block, and PFCs Ira Hayes and Franklin Sousley, who installed the lines, and PFC Rene Gagnon, who obtained the necessary walkie-talkies and brought them to the battalion staff. It had then dawned on Johnson that given the circumstances a personnel from the battalion told him that should the Secretary of the Navy’s orders be complied, the flag that would be hoisted must be a little more bigger and larger, thus the flag that had been raised earlier must be replaced. With that in mind, the battalion gave the order that a larger Stars and Stripes substitute the one that had been already raised earlier by the 40-man team if found at once. Shouldering the process, according to the official USMC records, was no less than the then battalion assistant commander of operations, 1LT Alfred Turtle, who on receiving the request hurried to the beaches. After looking and asking from ship’s crews for a larger flag, he then went aboard the US Navy ship LST 779 and later on obtained the flag on that amphibious vessel (it was from a supply post stationed in the then Navy Station Pearl Harbor, today Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, where it was assigned during that time) after the consent of the ship’s commanding officer was sought to obtain it. The color now in his posession, the lieutenant ran to the shore and upon reaching the battalion CP, where Gagnon was, informed LTCOL Johnson that the mission was a success, and hand him the flag, which Gagnon later received with the order to hoist it. But according to a 2004 discovery made by the Historian’s Office of the US Coast Guard, reinforced by a 1991 New York Times interview by 2LT Wells, Gagnon himself was given the flag replacement order, leaving at once to find it. Minutes of inquries then led him to the LST USS Duval County, where he later boarded, and he later found the larger national standard that the ship had and the said flag – hand woven by civilian worker Mabel Sauvageau from the Mare Island Naval Shipyard – was given to him by USCG Quartermaster Robert Resnick after the corresponding permission had been granted by his commanding officer LT Frank Molenda for the flag to be obtained. With the flag now in his hands Gagnon then hurried off with Turner and Wells to the battalion CP, later informing his commander that the flag he had been given was the larger replacement one the battalion command had ordered. With the mission completed, Gagnon went off with the flag and the longer Japanese water pipe that the lieutenant colonel had given him. Before noon, another 40 man platoon from Easy Company 1/27 had been deployed to Mount Suribachi’s peak, with Bradley and a few other corpsmen, detecting no Japanese soldiers at the top as a bombing operation had been ongoing against enemy positions and bunkers. That platoon had photographers Joe Rosenthal and Bob Campbell and cameraman Bill Genaust (the latter two Marine combat photographers) with them climbing the mountain with Hayes, Sousley, Strank, Schultz, Gagnon and Block, which carried both the larger flag and the water pipe, with the platoon guarding the formation as the 6 Marines climbed the mountain. It was almost midday, and with the flag and the pole now ready and the cameras ready to roll, the 6-man Marine squad hoisted the second, more longer national flag of the United States of America at the summit of Mount Suribachi to more louder cheers and the sound of ship horns sounding in celebration, with with Rosenthal taking the picture and Genaust the film of this important moment that would become in due time become part of the 242 year long history of the United States Marine Corps, the 70 year history of the United States Armed Forces and of the 241 year history of the entire United States of America. (This historic event in the history of the Corps was recreated with great detail in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers with Adam Beach, John Michael Cross, Barry Pepper, Ryan Philippe, Jesse Bradford and Benjamin Walker playing the flagbearers, and the late Paul Walker, Tom McCarthy and Alessandro Mastrobuono playing the men who raised the first flag, plus Jamie Bell, Neal McDonough and Robert Patrick, and the film Letters from Iwo Jima, made that same year, tells of the heroic Japanese defense of the island that took many Japanese lives in the process as against so many US Marines of V Amphibious Corps that had died and injured.) When the victory was declared later on March 26 – within a month and few days from this historic act - only Tatum, Bradley, Schultz, Gagnon and Hayes were among the hundreds of Marines from their divisions who went back to their country as veterans of the war and as victors to the very people they swore to defend at the cost of their very own lives. Many Marines of all ranks had indeed shed their blood in the defense of the homeland and people during this battle, together with few from the Navy and Coast Guard, during the course of this battle that changed this very service branch of the United States Armed Forces. As the great FADM Chester Nimitz had put it in his words, “Uncommon valor was a common virtue” among the hundred thousand Marines of V Amphibious Corps who served there in this, one of the bloodiest battles that the United States Marine Corps faced in the Second World War in the Pacific Theater of Operations and one of the biggest victories of the Allies in this part of the world, alongside the men of the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Air Force (then the Army Air Forces). For it was during those days indeed where the United States Marine showed to the world, just like in the battles of the past, that at all costs shall he fulfill his mandate and sacred duty as a defender of the hopes, dreams, aspirations, liberties and freedoms not just of all the people of the United States, but of all the people of the world. His words are forever recorded in the Arlington National Cemetery’s Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, the very monument made on the basis of the historic photograph of the Iwo Jima flag raising that today, after 63 years since its historic inauguration, proudly stands over the Arlington fields and the graves of so many Marines over the centuries who even at the cost of their lives, served faithfully always to their country and people, and honoring the 242 years of long and faithful service of the United States Marine to the people and government of the United States of America and to all the people of the free world. In these changing times of our world, by recalling what has happened 72 years ago on this very day wherein our national flag flew proudly over Mount Suribachi, we never forget to remember the heroic actons done during the days of the Iwo Jima Campaign and most especially the thousands who died in that island for the sake of the freedoms we cherish today and in the generations to come. Today, February 23, 2017, with all our profound gratitude, humble respect and our deepest thanks not just to those who died but also to those who survived and our remaining veterans of this great battle, as the whole world remembers and celebrates this very moment in our history and most of all in the history of the glorious United States Armed Forces, we, as one united people, in remembrance of all the fallen and with profound thoughts of all who serve today in the armed forces and in our uniformed security and civil defense services, mark this the seventy-second year anniversary since the events of this day when these 6 Marines, risking even to lose their very own lives in the defense of their country, made the impossible responsibility of unfurling on the top of this fiery and great mountain with their bare hands the very symbol of our freedom and liberty, the glorious national flag of our great country the United States of America in the peak of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, that very flag which this June 14 marks the 240th year anniversary of its sanction by the Second Continental Congress as the national flag, a moment that will be forever a part of our history and patrimony, and a part in the long 242-year history of the United States Marine Corps and the 70 years of the modern United States Armed Forces, truly a sacred and memorable moment of national pride that will be forever be remembered and never forgotten in our hearts for years and decades to come and in the hearts of all the people of the free worl, and most of all of the American people, a memorable moment that will be treasured to our children. For this very immortal battle, one of many Allied victories in the Pacific Theater of Operations and one of the greatest military victories of the United States Armed Forces in this part of the world during the Second World War, shall be remembered as the one very battle that showed the world the bravery, courage and determination of the United States Marine for the defense of the American nation and all the free people of the world, and for the preservation of the values of freedom and liberty on which the United States was formed, thanks in part of the courage and gallantry shown by the US Marines in the early years of the nation that it helped to build thanks to the efforts of the Second Continental Congress 242 years past. May we today and for all our days forever cherish and honor the very day that the flag of independence was proudly raised in Iwo Jima, and truly know all too well that the freedom we have was the reason why America’s Greatest Generation of Heroes fought from 1941 to 1945 in the name of the nation and for the defense of her people and all the peoples of the free world, as part of its commitment as an Allied nation, and to defend the world from those who would do it and humanity great harm and destruction. It is with the sacrifices of all who fought in this historic battle that we indeed live today in the freedoms in which they fought in the sands of Iwo Jima 72 years ago, as well as in other wars before and since until today in various parts of the world, for we truly live in a free world and for a future truly worth defending and worth fighting for! As we think of all our remaining living veterans of this battle and of all remaining living veterans of our greatest generation who fought in the Second World War, we today honor their service by living our lives worthy of all who fought for the United States and for the freedoms of all the people of the world most especially of those who died in the fields of battle. Our future generations must never forget to remember that it is for our liberty and freedom, but also the future of our world and of all of humankind that they , the millions men and women who fought in the Second World War in the Allied combatant countries, will be remembered generation after generation and in the hearts of so many people all over the world! In closing, may the eternal memory of these brave 6 Marine flagbearers, who risked their futures and their lives for the sake of our liberty, be remembered all the more by all of us today, everyday and by the generations to come – the very eternal memory of them and of all the millions who fought in the Second World War who will never be forgotten and will be honored for all time, in very age, century upon century, for the peace of our world and for the future of humanity! ETERNAL GLORY TO THE HEROES AND VETERANS OF THE RED AND SOVIET ARMY AND OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, AS WELL AS OF THE PRESENT DAY ARMED SERVICES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES! ETERNAL GLORY TO ALL THOSE IN THE WORKERS’ AND PESANTS’ RED ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCES WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY 76 YEARS AGO IN THE START OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR! LONG LIVE THE SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE COUNTRIES THAT COMPOSED THE FORMER SOVIET UNION! ETERNAL GLORY TO THE FALLEN OF THE BATTLE OF MANILA AND THE BOMBING OF PFORZHEIM! LONG LIVE THE 33RD NATIONAL DAY OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM, THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUAYANA, AND THE 3RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLOSING OF THE SOCHI WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES AND THE VICTORY OF THE EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTION! ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF THE 6 MARINES WHO ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY EXACTLY 72 YEARS AGO ON THIS VERY DAY IN OUR HISTORY, ATOP THE PEAK OF MOUNT SURIBACHI IN IWO JIMA, RISKING EVEN TO SUFFER DEATH BY ENEMY GUNFIRE AND GRENADES, RAISED THE VERY SYMBOL OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY, OUR GLORIOUS NATIONAL FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ETERNAL GLORY AND MEMORY TO THE HEROES, MARTYRS AND VETERANS OF THE GREAT BATTLE OF IWO JIMA, ONE OF THE GREATEST BATTLES EVER FOUGHT BY THE MEN OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS! ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THE VETERANS, ALLIED HEROES AND FALLEN OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS! LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS, INVINCIBLE AND LEGENDARY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, ALWAYS FAITHFUL TILL THE END FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OF THE FREE WORLD! GLORY TO THE VICTORIOUS PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HER UNIFORMED SERVICES! AND FINALLY, GLORY TO THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AND GUARANTEE OF A FUTURE WORTHY OF OUR GENERATIONS TO COME! Semper Fidelis! Oorah! 2300h, February 23, 2017, the 241st year of the United States of America, the 242nd year of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the 123rd of the International Olympic Committee, the 121st of the Olympic Games, the 76th since the beginning of the Second World War in the Eastern Front and in the Pacific Theater, the 72nd since the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the victories in Europe and the Pacific, the 5th since the attacks on Benghazi, the 12th of Operation Red Wings, and the 70th of the United States Armed Forces. Semper Fortis John Emmanuel Ramos Makati City, Philippines Grandson of Philippine Navy veteran PO2 Paterno Cueno, PN (Ret.) (Honor by Hans Zimmer) (Platoon Swims) (Rendering Honors)

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The Wedding Party (1969, Charles Pfluger, Valda Setterfield, Raymond McNally, John Braswell, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Salt, William Finley, Jill Clayburgh) - Classic Movie Review 5380

The Wedding Party (1969, Charles Pfluger, Valda Setterfield, Raymond McNally, John Braswell, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Salt, William Finley, Jill Clayburgh) – Classic Movie Review 5380

This wildly comic 1969 film farce is written, produced, edited and directed by theatre professor Wilford Leach and two of his students, protégé Brian De Palma and Cynthia Monroe, who bankrolled its $43,000 budget.

The plot follows the soon-to-be groom Charlie (played by Charles Pfluger) and his interactions with his fiancée’s relatives and wedding party members before the ceremony on the…

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Dec. 18, 2019: Obituaries

James Brewer, 72

James Charles Brewer, age 72, of Wilkesboro, passed away Saturday, December 14, 2019 at his home. Mr. Brewer was born October 30, 1947 in Lawrence County, Tennessee to Alvin and Eva Foster Brewer. He attended Poplar Springs Baptist Church and was a US Army Veteran. He loved his flower garden, hunting, fishing and especially building furniture. Mr. Brewer was preceded in death by his parents; and daughter, Melissa Osborne.

Surviving are his wife, Margaret Ann Brewer; son, Rick Blevins and spouse Judy of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Monica Lynn Osborne Toliver and spouse Andy of Lansing, Chris Blevins of Hays, Samuel Blevins, Matthew Osborne and spouse Carrie all of North Wilkesboro; great grandchildren, Jamison Jones, Alana Toliver, Branson Osborne, Levi Osborne, Wyatt Osborne; sisters, Elizabeth Bridges of Mississippi, Betty Hastings and spouse Bob, Nancy Watkins all of Tennessee, Delores Wilson of Granite Falls, and Faye Whitley of Lenoir.

Funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Lloyd Day and Rev. Donnie Shumate officiating. Entombment with military honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard Post 1142 will follow in Mountlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 1:00 until 2:00 on Tuesday, prior to the service. The family has requested no flowers. Memorials may be made to Wake Forest Hospice, 126 Executive Drive, Suite 110, Wilkesboro, NC 28697. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Nellie Hill, 70

Nellie Mae Cooper Hill, age 70, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Friday, December 13, 2019 at Wilkes Senior Village. She was born April 11, 1949 in Smyth County, Virginia to James Louis and Lillian Dare Doane Cooper. Nellie was a member of Church of God of Prophecy. She was a very devout Christian, always sharing the word of God. She was all about loving and caring for others. Nellie loved to play the piano, sing and play the guitar. Mrs. Hill was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James Edward Hill, Jr.; and a sister, Phyllis Wagoner.

Surviving are her sons, Rodney Hill and spouse Linda, Pat Hill and spouse Angela all of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Ryan Hill, Megan Hill, Seth Hill, Gina Hill; great granddaughter, Madison Hill; brother, Wendell Cooper and spouse Carol of Edgewood, Maryland; sister, Mary Sike and spouse Brad of Virginia Beach, Virginia; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Raymond Ledford officiating. Burial will follow in Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 1:00 until 2:00 on Wednesday, prior to the service. Flowers will be accepted.

Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Sheryl Simmons, 62

Sheryl Wadas Simmons, age 62, of Deep Gap, passed away Saturday, December 14, 2019 at her home. Mrs. Simmons was born July 27, 1957 in Summit County, Ohio to Elmer Robert and Violet Maxine Zornes Wadas. She was a member of Full Gospel Fellowship. Mrs. Simmons was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Donna Walker and brother Eddie Wadas.

Surviving are her husband, Lloyd Simmons of the home; daughters, Virginia Diaz and spouse Beto of Charlotte, Tennessee, Brandy Greene of Hays; son, Avery Simmons and spouse Misty of West Jefferson; nine grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.

Funeral service was December 16, at Full Gospel Fellowship on Mertie Road with Pastor Roy Smith and Rev. Cecil Hamby officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Flowers will be accepted. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Willa Rhoades, 79

Willa Gray Rhoades, age 79, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Friday, December 13, 2019 at her home. She was born October 21, 1940 in Wilkes County to Gwyn and Cleo Kilby Hayes. Mrs. Rhoades was a member of Hilltop Baptist Church and enjoyed reading. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 60 years, Bill Warner Rhoades.

Surviving are her daughter, Elizabeth Rhoades Griffin and spouse William of North Wilkesboro; son, Gwyn Rhoades and spouse Donna, North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Cody Griffin and spouse Jessica of Hays, Casey Reavis and spouse Daniel of Millers Creek, Lynn Wright and spouse Jeff of Saw Mills, Amanda Braswell of North Wilkesboro; great grandchildren, Bailee Griffin, Christian Osborne, Carson Griffin, Sawyer Griffin, Emma Reavis, Allison Wright, Alyssa Wright, Abagail Stamper and Katherine Stamper.

Graveside service will be held 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family has requested no flowers. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105-9956 or to the Shriners Hospital for Children, 2900 N. Rocky Point Drive, Memphis, Tennessee 38105-9956. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Elizabeth Crews, 72

Mrs. Elizabeth Gail Lane Crews, age 72, wife of Paul L. Crews, Jr., died Friday, December 13, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist Health - Wilkes Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 PM Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at Bethel Branch Church of Christ with Brother Lawrence Warden, Brother Steve Johnson, and Brother Marvin Williams officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 PM Tuesday at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.

Mrs. Crews was born November 12, 1947 in Wilkes County to Charlie Raymond and Virginia Lee Prevette Lane. She was a member of Bethel Branch Church of Christ and had retired from Lowes Companies.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a daughter-in-law, Julia Crews.

She is survived by her husband, Junior Crews, of the home; one son, Steve Crews, of Millers Creek; one daughter, Charley Staley and husband, Doug, of North Wilkesboro; three grandchildren, Zach Staley, Olivia Crews, and Victoria Crews; one brother, Bryan Lane and wife, Lorrie, of Raleigh; two nieces, Krystin Lawing and husband, Andrew, and Kelsey Lane; and one nephew, Spencer Lane.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials made to Humane Society of Wilkes, P.O. Box 306, North Wilkesboro NC 28659.

Earl Byrd, 71

Mr. Earl Philmore Byrd, age 71 of Hays, died Sunday, December 15, 2019 at his home.

Funeral arrangements will be held 2:00 PM Thursday, December 19, 2019 at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel with Rev. Keith Foster and Rev. Rick Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 12:30 until 1:30 PM prior to the service at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.

Mr. Byrd was born June 13, 1948 in Wilkes County to Reece and Cora Blevins Byrd. Mr. Byrd served many years of his life preaching to the elderly at nursing homes.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Byrd was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Ann Key Byrd; one son, Daniel Earl Byrd; and one grandson, Andrew Martin Taylor.

He is survived by one daughter, Sharon Byrd Pruitt and husband, Randy, of Hays; three sons, Darrell

Edward Byrd and wife, Claudia, of Elkin, Vernon Earl Byrd and wife, Crystal of Hays, and Bobby Eugene Byrd of Jonesville; sixteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Flowers will be accepted.

Marty Shumate, 42

Mr. Marty Gwyn Shumate, age 42 of Moravian Falls, went home to be with his heavenly father on the wings of Angels on December 13, 2019.

Funeral services were December 15, at Reins Sturdivant Chapel with Pastor Joey Moore and Rev. Coy Baker officiating. Burial was in Boiling Springs Baptist Church cemetery.

Mr. Shumate was born February 17, 1977 in Wilkes County to Judy Ann Shumate. He was employed by Keller Electric. Marty was a sports enthusiast. He was very active in High School sports, loved his Maw Maw and PawPaw and going to work with him and loved to play golf.

In addition to his mother, he was preceded in death by his grandfather; Albert Gwyn Shumate and a brother Justin Lee Eller.

He is survived by his grandmother, Jennie Lee Shumate of Moravian Falls; four aunts, Pauline Johnson and husband Tony, Wanda Shew and husband Danny, Reba Bumgarner and husband Dicky and Nancy Call and husband Kenneth; and two living angels, Justin Stone Bumgarner and Kierstin Leann Bumgarner.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society PO Box 9 North Wilkesboro, NC 28659.

Harvey Kilby, 84

Mr. Harvey Alvin Kilby, age 84 of Wilkesboro died Friday, December 13, 2019 at Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care in Lenoir.

A memorial service was December 17, at Reins Sturdivant Funeral Home with Pastor Gary Benesh and Pastor James Todd officiating. Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park.

Mr. Kilby was born November 6, 1935 in Wilkes County to Alvin William and Agnes Naomi Bauguss Kilby. He achieved the rank of Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force and fought in the Vietnam War. He retired from the Air Force after 22 years of service. He was a 40 year leader with A.A. involvement and was an avid baseball fan.

He is preceded in death by his parents, his wife; Margie Kilby and one brother; Larry William Kilby.

He is survived by his daughter; Sandra Renee Kilby, his son; David Kilby, his sister; Sandra Smith and husband, Dennis of Lenoir, one niece; Stacy Kilby and one nephew; Justin Smith.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care, 902 Kirkwood Street NW, Lenoir, NC 28645.

Marlene Burton, 57

Mrs. Marlene Gail Harris Burton, age 57 of North Wilkesboro, widow of Shirley Anthony Burton, died Thursday, December 12, 2019 at Accordious of Wilkes.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 PM Friday, December 20, 2019 at Parks Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Brent Bailey officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1:00 until 2:00 prior to the service at the church.

Mrs. Burton was born October 23, 1962 in Fairfax, VA to Romie and Martha Tyson Harris. She received an Associates degree in Applied Sciences and Horticulture from Wilkes Community College, was a chef of the Culinary Arts, baker and cake decorator, and had a realtor's and cosmetologist license. She was a packer for moving companies for many years, Bekins and A1 Movers in VA. Mrs. Burton loved gardening and dancing especially to "Fetty Wap" and "Cardi B". She was a member of Grace Kingdom Ministries and Parks Grove Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and one brother, David Harris.

She is survived by one daughter; Tonene Carter and husband, Lorenzo of VA , one son; Lonzo Valentine of Wilkesboro, six grandchildren; Persia Harris, Chance Carter, Zymiere Carter, Karleah Valentine, Nova Valentine, Osiris Valentine, four sisters; Patricia Daniels and husband, Donnie, of Wilkesboro, Rhonda Martin and husband, Samuel, of Charlotte, Paula Brown and husband, Neville, of Charlotte, and Helen Harris of Charlotte, one brother: Carl Harris and wife Valarie, of Virginia and a special friend Sandra Martin of North Wilkesboro.

Pallbearers will be Erick Harris, Anton Harris, Isaiah Edley, Francis Ashford, Taveon Crews and Melvin Ramsuer.

Flowers will be accepted.

Glen Wingler, 90

Glen "Preacher" Wingler, age 90, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Thursday, December 12, 2019 at Wilkes Senior Village Assisted Living. Glen was born October 28, 1929 in Grayson County, Virginia to John Franklin and Alice Cora Shepherd Wingler. Mr. Wingler attended Harmony Baptist Church. He loved to garden and building things with his hands. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Phyllis Kay Lauder Wingler; sisters, Hester Wyatt, Ila Icenhour, Rose Wingler, Ethel Wingler; and brother, Arvil Wingler.

Surviving are step-daughters, Tammy Ellis and spouse David, April Simmons all of Salisbury, Crystal Melton of Rockwell, NC; niece, Wanda Wyatt Bruas and spouse Geir of Marshville, NC; nine step grandchildren; and ten step great grandchildren.

Funeral service was December 16, at Harmony Baptist Church with Pastor Troy Behrens and Rick Severt officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Harmony Baptist Church, PO Box 960, Millers Creek, NC 28651.

Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Laura Sheek, 90

Mrs. Laura Catherine Glass Sheek, age 90 of Hillsborough, widow of Nelson Glenn Sheek, died Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at Peek Brookshire Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at Edgewood Baptist Church with Rev. Eddie Tharpe officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 10:00 until 11:00 AM at the church prior to the service.

Mrs. Sheek was born February 28, 1929 in Wilkes County to C.G. Glass, Sr. and Eva Effie Bumgarner Glass. She was a member of Pleasant Green United Methodist Church in Hillsborough. She was also a member of the Eastern Star for over 60 years and volunteered at Virginia Beach Hospital for many years.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Nelson Glenn Sheek; one sister, Carol Glass Losey; and two brothers, C.G. Glass, Jr. and Jack Glass.

She is survived by her nieces, Beth Losey Stevens, Eva Losey Faison, Kathryn Losey Dempsey, and Pam Glass Shepherd; and her nephews, Geoffrey Losey, John Losey, George Glass, James Glass, Chris Glass, Steve Glass, and David Glass.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, P.O. Box 50, Memphis TN 38101-9929 or Humane Society of Wilkes, P.O. Box 306, North Wilkesboro NC 28659.

Magdalene Johnson, 92

Mrs. Magdalene "Maggie" Higgins Johnson, age 92 of Millers Creek passed away Sunday, December 8, 2019 at her home.

Private services will be held.

Mrs. Johnson was born April 11, 1927 in Wilkes County to Clossie Jay and Eura Elizabeth Faw Higgins. She loved her garden and her children. Her garden was her labor of love and her children were always treated to a feast at her table. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband; Silas Johnson, Jr., three sisters; Helen Keys, Carrie Johnson, Esther Benfield and three brothers; Willie, Robert and John Higgins.

She is survived by one daughter; Sharon Greene and husband Archie of North Wilkesboro, two sons; Gary Silas Johnson and wife Sue of Upper Sundusky, OH and Terry Keith Johnson of Boomer, five grandchildren; Mandy Jo, Misty Kay, Nathan, Nathanael and Krysta Lanna Johnson, six great grandchildren; Matthias, Julie, Gabrial, Corbin, LeeAnn and Tansy Johnson, two sisters; Dorothy Stanley and husband Don and Ruth Wiles all of Hays, and one brother; Wayne Higgins and wife Jane of Hays, fur baby; Sarah and special friend and caregiver; Betty Joe Walsh Lovette.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Humane Society of Wilkes, PO Box 306, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659. The family requests no food.

Curtis Sebastian, 79

Mr. Curtis Reid Sebastian, 79, of Hays, passed away on Friday December 6, 2019 at his home.

Curtis was born on December 9, 1939 in Wilkes County to John Sherman Sebastian and Ruth Faw Sebastian.

Curtis retired from Holly Farms after 44 years of service. Curtis was a hard working man and loved his family.

Curtis is preceded in death by his parents.

Curtis is survived by his wife, Mary Jane Pennington Sebastian of the home; sons, Johnny Perry of Hays, Travis Sebastian of North Wilkesboro; brothers, Lewis Sebastian of North Wilkesboro, John Sebastian of Washington State; sister, Wanda Weaver of McGrady; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

A memorial service was December 14, at East Gate Baptist Church. Rev. David Wallace and Rev. Donnie Shumate will be officiating.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be given to Mary Sebastian, 891 Brewer Rd Hays, NC 28635 to help with final expenses.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Sebastian Family.

Linda Lou Cook, 73

Mrs. Linda Lou Cook, 73, of North Wilkesboro, passed away on Sunday, December 8, 2019.

Linda was born on August 2, 1946 in Russell, Virginia to Walker Albert Lester and Elizabeth Hess Lester.

Linda is preceded in death by her parents; daughters, Kathy Peirce, Brenda McBride; brothers, Ronnie, Gene, Robert Lester; grandchildren, Aaron Deskins and Skyler Massie.

Linda is survived by sisters, Peggy Ratliff, Carol Hart; brothers, James, Mike and Billy Lester, all of Virginia; 9 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

The family will conduct a memorial service at a later date.

Condolences may be sent to: www.adamsfunerals.com

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Cook Family.

Robert Hagan Rowland, Jr

Robert Hagan Rowland, Jr., of Wilkesboro passed away Wednesday, December 11, at Forsyth Memorial Hospital following a short but difficult fight with esophageal cancer.

Hagan was born on October 18, 1969, in Forsyth County to Robert Hagan Rowland, Sr., and Nada Cleary Rowland (Lawrimore). He was preceded in death by his father and his step-father James T Lawrimore. He is survived by his mother of Wilkesboro, his daughter Adrianna Rowland Harrs and husband Jacob of Winston-Salem, sisters Amy Rowland Nichols and husband Greg of Charlotte, Dr. Emily Rowland Roberson and husband Craig of Advance, and Elizabeth Rowland Davis and husband Mack of Boomer, NC, along with five nephews and two nieces. He is also survived by two special people "adopted" into the family, Donna Dixon of Mocksville who lived with the Rowlands when Hagan was a young child and Stacy Kilby of North Wilkesboro who has become another family member following the death of her parents.

Hagan was a member of Peace Haven Baptist Church in North Wilkesboro and practiced his Christian faith by being one of the most giving and most willing friends to help anyone in need. His most remembered asset was his smile, always accompanied with a twinkle of mischief in his eyes.

A multi-talented young man, Hagan graduated with an AA in business administration from Wilkes Community College where he was a member of the Student Council, then elected President of the Student Body. As he traveled throughout the state he obtained additional degrees in construction, construction management, and horticulture, and found his niche in specialty designs for finish work. He worked with HS Greene Construction while in college where he developed his talents for woodworking. In 2014 he moved to Kansas to work for Bullseye Construction where he supervised the finishing crew, and created his own specialty woodworking designs for $1 million-plus homes, featured on a series for HGTV. Woodworking was also a hobby where he could create anything he could imagine, but he also had a passion for fishing, especially with his life-long friend and fishing buddy Reggie Kyle.

Funeral services were December 14, at Reins Sturdivant Chapel with Rev. Tim Pruitt officiating. Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park.

Flowers are being accepted or donations may be made to Samaritan Kitchen of Wilkes, PO Box 1072, Wilkesboro, NC.

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