I still can’t quite believe that our library teddy bear’s announcement of the book sale went viral. It wasn’t properly viral. I mean, we didn’t get him interviewed by national TV.

He did feature on two local radio stations and the local paper wrote a full page about him. They sent a photographer and Bob looked very dapper in his sweater and scarf combo. They wanted me to recreate the book dominoes for the photo shoot but Boss Lady said we couldn’t close the library to do it and she didn’t want readers tripping over the books. I was relieved, the setup of that domino thing took hours. Instead I gave them the link to the video for their online edition.

The book dominoes inspired two local schools to do it with their students, which was fun and gave me more t...

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