LIBRARIES ARE COOL! Spring and Summer Reading 2023 was a blast!
Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa… along with meeting so many devoted librarians and enthusiastic readers/patrons, another highlight of our June tour was celebrating Chloe’s 17th birthday out on the road. Chloe loves travel. And we adore her! Here’s to more adventures in the future… MUSH!
shhh… Noggin’s surprise party for her 12th birthday is very soon…
The last 365 days with CHLOE and NOGGIN (and Philadelphia Phil, too!)…
… Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and West Virginia!
MUSH! Email us today to book a dog mushing talk at your library or school!
And check out some of our new MUSHING MUSIC—a Philadelphia Phil & Karen Land lyrical collaboration—at:
The LIBRARY TRAIL, that is : )
After almost 14 months away from in-person/in-dog library talks because of the pandemic, Noggin, Chloe, and I (all of us fully-vaccinated) are back at it! We gave a few warm-up talks in Indiana before we packed up our truck to spend several weeks on the road in Kansas for Tails and Tales Summer Reading. We had a such a fun time visiting with folks, seeing the sights, and checking out all of those great public libraries (16 total) across the state. We have missed you all! If you’re interested in an in-person/in-dog presentation for your school or library, email us now (mymusher @ gmail.com) to get on the schedule. And if you’re still Zooming, no worries, we do that, too! Here are a few shots from our road-trip adventures.
Noggin is finally starting to get the hang of posing for photographs which was a good thing last Thursday night at our talk in Hope, Indiana. We had a fun crowd at the Bartholomew County Public Library (Hope branch) and everyone wanted shots with Noggin, the rowdy star, who for once didn’t snooze on her bed the entire talk, but instead browsed the aisles looking for a good book. She is a VERY smart dog, you know!
A big hug and thank you to our friends, Sue and Larry and GOAT, for stopping in and surprising us. We always love seeing you. Goat, Romano’s brother, is quite the sweet talker and has the most creative vocabulary of ANY dog I know. Noggin was quite impressed!
Thank you to the Rural Alliance for the Arts for sponsoring our Batesville Intermediate School visits for the second year in a row!
As always, the teachers had their students well-prepared for our time together, and we enjoyed lively discussions about the 1,049-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race which, of course, is happening RIGHT NOW! Noggin and I gave five talks at the school over the course of two days. Each and every third grader has picked a musher and dog team to follow daily throughout the race so they were ready to talk trail. And Noggin, as always, was ready for a little sled dog TLC…
Chloe says: “Always consider as many viewpoints as possible…”
Note: Sporgi = part Corgi, part Springer Spaniel (you decide which parts are whose)
… at Northside Middle School in Columbus, Indiana!
… keeps the doctor away.
Noggin taking a stretch break during an Iditarod Skype session with Arongen Elementary in Clifton Park, NY.
String of Dogs 