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January 3, 2018December 30, 2017

Strong as Sandow

Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth
by Don Tate (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: Little Friedrich Müller was a puny weakling who longed to be athletic and strong like the ancient Roman gladiators. He exercised and exercised. But to no avail.

As a young man, he found himself under the tutelage of a professional body builder. Friedrich worked and worked. He changed his name to Eugen Sandow and he got bigger and stronger. Everyone wanted to become “as strong as Sandow.”

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January 2, 2018December 30, 2017

One Noisy Night

One Noisy Night
by M. Christina Butler (Author) and‎ Tina Macnaughton (Illustrator)

Booktalk: A wintry tale complemented by touch-and-feel accents follows the efforts of a group of animal friends who investigate strange noises heard in the nighttime woods before discovering a mysterious red hat.

Snippet: That night, the noises were louder than ever! Creak! Groan! Crash!
Fox jumped up and crept outside. As he was tiptoed through the moonlit trees, he saw a red hat bobbing up and down near the river.