Photo courtesy of Joan Shyers, Echoes-Sentinel
In October 2007 we started a program at the library called Paws for Reading. Each month, trained volunteers come to the library with their therapy dogs and kids can sign up to read to the dogs for 5 minutes. The kids sometimes bring their own books, other times they pick out a book at the library. (My favorite moment so far was when a kid chose to read Go, Dog, Go to the dog.) We had this month's program last week and we didn't have too many kids signed up (I think it was due to the holiday season) so, to my delight, there was a slot open for ME to read to the dog! I read "Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus." Ginny, the dog, seemed to enjoy it, but maybe that was just my imagination. Can I just say how much I LOVE having dogs in the library?!?!?!? It rocks.
Plus, when I sent out a press release announcing the event, both of the local papers got very interested. They both sent photographers and had reporters contact me about it. I think it was the unexpectedness of having dogs in the library that attracted them. Here's the article from the Courier-News.
