Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere.
And this is Librarians of Littles, a podcast
where we share books, give makerspace ideas,
and give those tips and tricks for working with
the youngest learners in the library setting.
This week, we have selected two books that we
both think are just really great and fun and
just kind of our favorite books that we try to
make sure we use every year in the library with
our students. And this week we're gonna start
with one that I love to use. I generally use
this one near the beginning of the school year,
but it's a fun book to use at any point during
the year, honestly. The book is called If You
Ever Want to Bring a Circus to the Library, Don't.
It's written and illustrated by Elise Parsley
and it was published by Little Brown and Company
in 2017. This book actually hasn't won any awards
or honors, but two other books in this series
have won some awards. If You Ever Want to Bring
an Alligator to School, Don't was an Anna Dudney
Read Together Award honor in 2021. And it was
on, it was a... Children's Favorite Award Selection
for 2016, and it was a Junior Library Guild Selection
for 2015. And the If You Ever Want to Bring a
Piano to the Beach, Don't was a Children's Favorite
Award Selection for 2017. And the author -illustrator
of this book, Elise Parsley, studied drawing
and creative writing at Minnesota State University
Moorhead. During college, she volunteered with
an AmeriCorps academic enrichment program promoting
literacy. And some of her other books are If
You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School,
Don't, Neck and Neck, If You Ever Want to Bring
a Piano to the Beach, Don't, How to Catch a Clover
Thief, If You Ever Want to Bring a Pirate to
Meet Santa, Don't, It's Tummy Time, and she illustrated
The Magic Word by Mac Barnett. And so the summary
for this book is we're introduced to the lovable
character Magnolia. Magnolia learns the hard
lesson that even if a poster says that you can
do anything in the library, it doesn't mean that
you can bring a circus into the library. As Magnolia
tries to have her circus appease the librarian
and entertain the children, she struggles to
do acts like the high wire, a clown act, passing
out concessions, and Firing herself from a cannon
and so all of the mayhem that ensues from that
is Collected to find that yes, it is actually
a terrible idea to bring a circus to the library
Like I said, I love to use this book near the
beginning of the year when we're talking about
library expectations and library behavior Because
this is a really fun story that grabs the students
attention. It keeps them guessing and laughing
as to what's going to happen. Magnolia is that
strong -willed child that thinks that she knows
best and that she's going to figure this out
and she ends up learning that hard lesson. The
illustrations are so bright and wonderful and
the facial expressions of the other characters
in the book the entire time are so exaggerated.
It shows those feelings and the thoughts of the
characters without having to to verbalize them.
And so I use this a lot as a book to discuss
how we should be acting in the library and what's
acceptable to do in the library and what's not
acceptable to do in the library. And it's just
a really fun story that keeps the kids engaged
and laughing. It keeps them entertained. And
it's just a really cute story. Magnolia as a
character, if you read the whole series of books,
she's just a really kind of crazy silly fun character
that i think a lot of kids can relate to as being
like but i i think i can do this i think i know
i can get it done and you know they kind of have
to learn that hard way that that's it's not going
to be successful in the end and so i really enjoy
this book and i i would give it a five out of
five because it's not a super long book there's
enough Crazy events that are happening that it
keeps the students attentions for a long time.
The only thing is is that especially with pre
-k students There's the the background knowledge
of what a circus is and what a circus entails
so we usually have a discussion and talk a little
bit about what a circus is before I read the
story and I show usually show them some like
pictures of like a circus tent and like some
like a clown and a ringmaster and that kind of
thing just to give them some ideas of What a
circus is because a lot of them haven't necessarily
had that experience. There's, I mean, circuses
are, I would think, I think they're slowly kind
of going away and they're definitely changing
from when we were a kid. There's a lot less animals
that are involved in circuses and that kind of
thing. So like they've definitely changed and
you don't see them as often. So those experiences
for those kids is limited. So giving them a little
bit of background knowledge so they can understand
the story first would be the only thing I try
to make sure I do just so that they can enjoy
the story to the full extent. But I love this
book. I think it's so much fun and the kids really
enjoy it. I'm super glad you picked this book
because I love this series. It's a lot of fun.
It's everything you said. I love how bright the
illustrations are. They're very eye -catching
and kids just absolutely love them. Actually
everything that I think Elise Parsley does. Like
I've read several of her books like not just
from this series but a couple of others and as
well to kids and like the kids just like love
it they're just very it's told kind of somewhat
simply but like in it's more like the cadence
the not cadence but the words that she uses are
very much like conversational i guess so it's
a little bit more easier for our kids to understand
and so it's just the way that it's written is
Because it's conversational the kids really get
it and it resonates with them a little bit better
Because it's kind of like you're listening to
a friend to listen, you know, just talk so I
really like the way that kind of flows and There's
a lot of just silliness and they're really funny.
So I just I enjoy this author and illustrator
a whole lot This is a really great choice Good
book. Good job. Yeah The other thing that I love
about this is if you actually read all of the
books in this series, there are some parts that
are consistent and kind of like running jokes
throughout all of the book series. Like in every
one of the four books that have Magnolia, there
are egg and cheese sandwiches somewhere in the
story that she's either eating or trying to pass
out. Like in this book, for the concessions,
she has egg and cheese sandwiches. in the book
the with the alligator at school it eats her
egg and cheese sandwich at the at the beach she
has egg and cheese sandwiches for lunch i don't
think i've noticed that yes so and even in the
pirate meeting santa the pirate eats her egg
and cheese sandwich so egg and cheese sandwiches
are a running thing and then the other is that
when it gets to that peak ridiculousness in the
story where she's finally realizing that Like
she's she's made a giant error in judgment and
she needs to just Stop with what she's doing.
It's always that she feels like she should just
go home Like that is a running like yeah, just
go home kind of thing So like having that throughout
the series is just really cute. So like Because
I will read this one near the beginning of the
year and then I usually follow it up Within a
couple weeks not right away, but within a couple
weeks. We'll read the bringing an alligator to
school And so like the kids will start to notice
and then when we get into like December and we
start talking about Like holidays and stuff will
read the bringing a pirate to Santa and they
start to catch on a little bit more and then
a lot of times near the end of the year will
read the bringing a piano to the beach because
like we're getting close to summer and so like
and so they we'll read like almost all of the
books most years and like the kids are like wait
a minute like that that was something that was
in the other book too and like they started to
catch on to those things that run through both
stories and it's cute and it's fun but yeah i
love this book and the kids really enjoyed the
whole series it's a great series yeah so as far
as a makerspace activity that would go along
with this i did this book like i said at the
beginning of the year and i actually had couple
different ideas because I did it with actually
Pre -k through fifth grade because it's such
a good book that even my fifth graders were able
to sit and enjoy it and like Laugh along with
it. So it worked really well for pre -k. I Would
do something a little bit more simple in the
story when Magnolia gets shot out of the cannon
she hits the bookshelves and they start to collapse
kind of like dominoes and so having the kids
use like kiva planks, wooden planks of some kind
and building like domino chains and seeing if
they can make different shapes with the domino
chains before they have them collapse over top
over each other would be a fun way for the little
kids the pre -k kids to be able to physically
move some stuff around and see that domino chain
kind of happen after it's it's presented in the
book which would be fun with kinder and first
i had them use legos to build their own circus
which was fun because so like we had kids like
trying to build circus tents and stuff like that
which was pretty cool and this whole book starts
with a poster that is on one of the library shelves
and it's a boy reading a book and it says you
can do anything at the library and in his imagination
he's doing like the trapeze and so with my older
students the fourth and fifth grade students
I gave them paper and art utensils and told them
to make their own like library poster like motivational
poster kind of thing. Oh that's fun. Oh I love
that. and so like there are some really cool
ones that the kids came up with so like yeah
you can just like put that up all year yeah and
so this this book works for like so many different
levels and there's so many different ways that
you can incorporate it and give the kids some
possibilities for different makerspace activities
at every level and so it was really cool to be
able to do that and it like because i tried not
to do the same book for every grade level but
this one just works really well at the beginning
of the year to kind of go over It does. You know,
like the routines and the expectations and that
kind of stuff and so I used it for all the grade
levels and there were different activities we
could do that they could connect with at each
level which was really nice. I love that. It
was cool. That is cool to be able to do the same
book with every grade level every now and then.
Yeah. I don't know. I'm guessing. I don't know.
I'm all pre -k right now. I'll find out later.
You'll find out soon enough. But it is nice and
it's because it's also something that the next
year you can be like remember when we read this
last time so now we're going to do this but we'll
do something different afterwards you know and
so like having a couple of those books that you
come back to every year and be like remember
we've had this conversation before we talked
about this book we read this book it's a fun
book we can read it again and notice more things
about it and so there are some books that you
read from year to year with the same yeah group
of kids yeah yeah because you know like and i've
explained because I mean, a year has passed.
I think that's fair. Yeah, absolutely. And we've
you've had those same kids that have been like
you go to read a story and they've been like,
we've already read this in class or I read this
at home. OK, well, we can enjoy the story again.
It's OK to read a book more than once. Sometimes
we can get something new out of it every time.
You know, so like, yeah, there are years where
and so like this is one of those books that I'll
read pretty consistently every year with every
grade level just because it does such a good
job of. segueing us into here's how we should
be acting in the library these are some things
that we shouldn't be doing and just kind of having
that conversation and then yeah like each grade
level kind of has their own little activity that
goes along with it and so it works out pretty
well yeah it's and then there's also just the
added well I don't have to make six different
plans for one for each grade level kind of thing,
too, which is just an added bonus. Especially
at the beginning of the year when we're all wiped
out. At the beginning of the year, when you're
trying to get everything else going and trying
to make sure that all your teachers have everything
they need to get going and stuff, sometimes simple
is better. And so this is a nice one to start
the year with. And, you know, the next week we'll
do something that's individualized for each grade
level or whatever. But yeah, sometimes just hitting
those good stories that everyone can enjoy. Yeah,
works out. I like it All right. So this week
for our library of littles management tip. We're
gonna just discuss book purchasing Selecting
books. What do we what kind of criteria do you
use to pick the books that are going to be part
of your? Your collection and then how do you
pick the books that? You're gonna use for your
lessons with the students because just because
it's a good book for your library doesn't necessarily
mean it's a great book to do with a lesson for
the whole group or as I read aloud and so just
kind of discussing some of those the criteria
that we have and we use to kind of make those
purchases make those decisions about whether
we use them as a whole group lesson that kind
of thing so I'll get started in my district currently
for purchasing the expectation is that the books
have it usually it's two to three positive reviews
that it's within the reasonable age range. So
my campus is pre -K through fifth grade. So usually
we can get into sixth, maybe into seventh grade
if it's appropriate, if the bottom age range
is low enough that it makes it reasonable for
us to have it on the campus. And then like we'll
often use, but it's not a... final criteria but
we'll use some of like the state lists and stuff
like that to help us at least take a look at
those books and decide if they're worth purchasing.
And then my campus is or my district is cool
because I like that we do this is we have these
smaller groupings so like every like three campuses
work together where when I make my list of what
I'm purchasing I then send it to two other librarians
and they take a look at it and kind of they're
like well you might look at this one or I've
heard this oh that's cool kind of thing and then
what's nice is I can also see what other campuses
are purchasing and be like yeah I want to add
that to my next list because that looks like
a good one and so I like that we do that because
it gives us a couple checks and balances to make
sure that like I if I miss something like in
one of the reviews somebody else is checking
it also but then I could also see what other
librarians are looking at purchasing and it helps
me get more ideas of what I can add to my lists.
I love that. The collaborative aspect of it is
really nice and it's helpful and so my district
that's what we do and it's really helpful as
far as for purchasing books because you know
there's so many books that come out every year
and some of them are excellent but finding out
which ones are really excellent and not just
sticking like I'll be honest, sometimes there
are just times where I'm like, okay, I really
like this author. I'm gonna make sure that I
have all of those books, which is great. But
there are new authors coming out all the time
too, and I don't wanna miss all there. So using
School Library Journal and other journals to
find new books is helpful. We use TitleWave in
our district. We use a couple different book
purchasing places, but TitleWave is nice because
it does have some of those new authors and some
of those... hot books that are coming out so
we can look at those lists and see what's on
there as well. Bound to Stay Bound usually has
lists like that too and so like checking out
all of those lists that way that they recommend
for certain age groups is always nice also for
making those purchasing selections. Your district
is a little different in that there's a little
bit more stringency to the process. They are
a little more stringent. We have a lot of rules
in our district. So our district requires us
to ideally have at least three positive reviews.
Obviously, not just any reviews, has to be professional
publications with positive reviews for the books
that we purchase. And then there's a checklist
of, well, not a checklist, more guidelines of
what is allowed to be in the books based on,
you know, elementary level, middle school level,
and then high school level. And it's just, it's
really just making sure that the books are developmentally
appropriate for the students we serve, which
obviously we use the guidelines and refer to
them frequently, but it's nothing really groundbreaking
or anything. It's pretty much everything that
I would use. irregardless of whether we have
the guidelines or not, it's just kind of common
sense like, no, we're not going to put super
violent books in, you know, the elementary school.
And it's, you know, yes, we go through the publications
and make sure that they are. written for the
age groups that we serve and things like that
so it's just a more formalized way of doing everything
that you just stated pretty much. But then when
I'm going through and looking things I also consider
like I'll have kids request even at the pre -k
level there's certain topics that our students
will request they really like Paw Patrol right
now and Bluey so Those ones don't obviously have
a whole lot of professional reviews just because
those are kind of copies of the TV shows themselves.
So there's not as much to like review because
it's not necessarily an original story. So there
are exceptions for things like that. We're just
kind of working on, there is a process in our
district for getting books like that approved
without the professional reviews because yes,
Bluey is still developmentally appropriate for
pre -K. That's allowed. Yeah, we also kind of
take those things into consideration. But everything
that you stated, too, like with typical books,
yes, going to look for the three or more professional
reviews and just making sure that we have kind
of high quality books, ideally more recent ones,
in addition to, you know, a few of the classics.
But yeah. i think that's about it oh and then
naturally going along with the curriculum as
well when i'm looking through books since there's
only really like six units of study for pre -k
in our in our district so i'm gonna look more
for books that kind of relate to either water
or boxes which is an interesting unit of study.
But still, there you go. It's there. School is
one of them in general. So like school and community
and things like that, which covers actually,
if you really think about it, yes, a wide variety
of books, actually. So yeah, looking through
the curriculum, looking for the high quality
reviews, and then student interest as well. Because
man, when I get those Blue Wing Paw Patrol books,
they kind of fly off the shelves, because those
kids love them. That's still true in elementary.
I have second graders that are like, are the
Bluey books back yet? Can I check them out yet?
They're still into it, so yeah. And the other
thing is, I didn't mention, but like Mo Willems
books and stuff like that, the fact that he's
still, like the Elephant and Piggy books, they're
not, people aren't reviewing those books anymore.
But since they're part of a series that has been
reviewed and are highly... highly considered
books, like we can get by with getting those
still without having to have the three positive
reviews and that kind of thing for those kind
of books. Once the series has been established
and it has positive reviews in general, getting
the next ones in the series is a little bit easier
also, yeah. And then it's the, how do we pick
the books for the lessons that we do? How do
we pick the Read Aloud books that we're doing?
is a whole other process. And because there'll
be days where I go through, and I go through
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten books before
I find the one that I really want. For me, the
first thing I do is I decide what topic or what
subject I'm going to be using for my lesson.
Then I look at what I have available in the library.
And so I'll go through and kind of start pulling
a couple of those to look at. And then it comes
down to the story themselves. how long the book
is because especially with pre -k the attention
span is short and so it needs to be engaging
and it needs to not just be a really long dredge
of a story and like that doesn't mean that like
the picture book isn't a good book it just means
that for the attention span of the children that
i'm trying to present it to it needs to stick
within a certain time frame if it's going to
take longer then I think the kids will be able
to sit still. Then I usually choose another book
that will better fit the time that we have with
those students. And then just, I think the pictures
definitely have an impact because I want the
students to be visually engaged as well as like
listening to the story. And so there's a lot
of kind of like little things that I look at
in the story, like are the pictures bright and
colorful? And if not, is there a reason for it
in the story? Is like some of the older books
like that we used to have, I don't have as many
of them on the shelf. The only reason I have
them now at this point are because they're like
classics. And so teachers have lessons that go
with them and stuff, but like the older books
that were kind of like monotone colored and stuff
like that, they're not really engaging, you know?
And so we want books that are visually engaging
to the students that keep their attention. And
so bright colorful thing, unless that's part
of the story, unless it's something that has
to do specifically with the story and helps tell
the story better. Those visual cues and stuff
are really important. And then just like, if
I tend to find myself drawn to books that have
like a rhyme scheme to them, because I think
that helps the students because they like the
predictability, they like that they can guess
what's coming. with the rhyming words so I tend
to if I have the choice I tend to choose those
books that have that but yeah I'm looking for
things that are going to be highly engaging for
my students based on the topic that I'm trying
to teach them for each lesson and so it takes
there's times when like I'm working for two or
three days trying to find just the right book
and there are times when in my collection I'm
like I don't have what I want and then I have
to go to the public library and look And then
if that happens, I make sure I add that book
to my next purchase list so that I can have it
for the following year to be able to use it,
so. Yeah. I think my process is pretty similar
to yours, actually. I do everything that you
listed. The only thing I think I would add is
every... For me, the most important criteria
is like, yes, obviously it has to, you know,
actually teach something and there's a topic
I'm trying to... Trying to teach but the most
important thing for me is like making sure that
I'm picking a book that I Really truly enjoy
because if I don't like love it a lot Then I
think that like bleeds through when I'm reading
it and you can tell like if I'm not having fun
Reading it and I'm not truly enjoying myself.
Then I know the kids won't so every now and then
I'll even pick a book that like I know is just
a little bit over their heads and maybe not every
kid is going to grasp the concept of it, but
I love it so deeply and I'm going to read it
with so much passion that it's not going to matter
because they're going to feel that the book joy
emanating from me and that's going to be the
thing that sticks with them. So sometimes not
that doesn't happen very often. But there's maybe
like two or three books a year where I'm like,
I just love it that much that you're gonna get
to hear it no matter what, huh? And we're all
gonna have fun. No, that's a really good point
because doing read -alouds is very performative
and your passion definitely is expressed through
that. So yeah, absolutely. Having a book that
you enjoy is a big part of it, I agree. That's
an excellent point. Yeah. Yeah. books are fun
finding the right book is important though yes
if we can convey to the kids through all of those
things that books are fun then that's what grabs
them in and wants them to keep coming back and
reading more so well on that note the fun book
that we're going to talk about next is the book
with no pictures it was printed by dial books
for young readers an imprint of penguin Penguin
Group in 2014. And the author of this book is
BJ Novak. There is no illustrator because it's
the book with no pictures. This book did not
win any awards, but it has it is on 16 US state
lists and two Australian lists. I didn't even
know Australia had lists. I know that makes sense.
But yeah, I didn't have heard of any Australian
lists, but it totally makes sense that they do.
It does make sense that they do. We just haven't
found any yet. And these are from 2022. So maybe
this was a more recent thing that they I don't
know. I'm sure they have more lists than this,
but this book is the Australian lists that this
book is on is the New South Wales Premieres Reading
Challenge for 2022 for grades K through two and
the Queensland Premieres Reading Challenge for
2022 years eight and nine. A couple of the US
state lists are the Colorado Children's Book
Award 2016, Mississippi Magnolia Award for 2017
for grades K through two, Wyoming Buckaroo Book
Award. for 2015, gave grades K through three,
Iowa Goldfinch Award for 2016, and the Utah Beehive
Award for 2016. All right, so BJ Novak is the
author. He is a comedian, actor, screenwriter,
author, and producer. He's best known for playing
the role of Ryan Howard on The Office. He won
two Screen Actors Guild Awards and was nominated
for five Emmys for his writing. acting and producing
in the show. The vast majority of his career
has been focused on television and movies and
the book with no pictures is his only children's
book. And I just as a side note I have to tell
you that my 13 year old son we've literally I
didn't know that you'd pick this but last week
We started watching the office with him because
we were like he's at that age now where he'll
get that he'll appreciate it now Yeah, we've
been we've been watching the office and I had
to point out to him in like the first episode
I was like see him see He is a writer for the
show and he wrote the book with no pictures and
he was like really that's the guy that wrote
the book with no So like he was super excited
about it, but like just Making those connections
is pretty cool. Yeah, that is Well, the book
with no pictures if you've never read it has
no pictures naturally and it's kind of the narrator
is speaking to the reader the whole time and
It's kind of it starts out with like them explaining
to The reader this is how books work You read
the words on the page and the grown -up has to
say them and it kind of gets progressively sillier
and sillier as it keeps going so This one is
a lot of it, my personal children still remember
this from when they were younger, just like your
son did. My kids have repeated, even though my
kids are now 11 and 13, they still every now
and then they're like, do you remember that book?
It's really funny. But I really, really love
it because it is, naturally it has no pictures,
so there's nothing for the kids to look at, so
it's all auditory. And when you're looking through
the, like you can still show the kids the book
because the, the words, the text on the page
themselves, like they do get like bigger and
smaller based on what you're reading. And you
can kind of, it helps to kind of show students
like, you know, this, you know, see where this
text is bigger. I'm going to read a lot louder
over here and I'm going to get more expressive.
So that's kind of cool too. So it's not like
you can't show them the book, although you don't
necessarily have to. but I just think it's a
really great way to kind of really show kids
what books are actually for and it's for you
know reading aloud and like understanding words
and that books can really really be a lot of
fun because it's just so super duper silly. I
like to do this one with pre -k at the very end
of the year because it's silly enough that they'll
kind of ask for it over and over at the beginning
of the year when there's obviously there's nothing
wrong with that but this is kind of a fun one
to kind of end the year with because it's just
that silly and all the kids will kind of be laughing
and there's not necessarily a unit that goes
with it or anything it's just a for fun silly
book so yeah it's a lot of fun I would give it
a five out of five Absolutely. And this is one
of those books where the performative portion
of it has a huge role in whether it lands with
the kids or not. Yeah, you have to be that performer
for this. So it's and you're right, it's a super
fun story. And like I was telling you before
we started recording, this was the book that
I plan to end the year with with my pre -k students
because it's just such a fun and silly story.
And at that point, you've taught the kids like
a lot of the expectations and stuff so they're
not going to it's not going to be ridiculous
like kids like jumping up and down and getting
all crazy but they can still enjoy the story
and have a good time and laugh and enjoy and
just be be kids and it's just such a great great
book that the kids just love so much it's going
to be one that they always remember and it's
still like i have i do i have first and second
graders that every week are like where's that
book? Can I get that book checked out? Because
it's a classic that they love to take home and
have their parents read to them and enjoy. And
it's just so much fun. It's a great story. I
agree. It is. It's a good time. As far as a makerspace
activity for this one, it doesn't really lend
itself to a makerspace activity, I don't think,
all that well, but... you could do Mad Libs and
I got that idea because when I was looking up
the book the stuff for this book I didn't know
that they actually published like a my that there's
another version of the book with no pictures
called my book with no pictures and it is Mad
Libs where you just like fill in the blank I
didn't know that existed I know, but that's awesome.
I know. I was very excited. I was like, what?
There's another one. And then I was looking and
I was like, no, it's the same one. And they just
like took out some of the, you know, instead
of saying I'm a blueberry pizza, I don't remember.
I'm a blueberry pizza. I want a blueberry pizza.
My head is a blueberry pizza. My head is a blueberry
pizza. That's what it was. Yes. Instead of saying
my head is a blueberry pizza, like you fill in
the blank with your own silliness and create
your own super duper silly story. So not really
makerspace, but still kind of a creative way
to enjoy the book together. And that could still
be an extension of like your whole group activity,
which I think the kids would stay engaged with.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And then you're still
like, you could do your shared writing. And like,
I really love that kind of idea of doing the
shared writing with the Mad Libs. And you can
talk about the different parts of speech. I guess
that would be better for older kids, obviously.
But. Like kind of being creative all together
and telling your story together That would be
a lot of fun and I think like you're right like
parts of speech and stuff would probably be for
older kids, but Even the younger kids if you
read the sentence with the blank in it Yeah.
They're going to pick the right type of word
whether they know it's called an adjective or
not. This is true. You can still do that for
sure. I agree with you. I think they would be
totally engaged in that when they could be like,
this is the story we made and it's ridiculous.
That would be awesome. I think they would love
that a lot. I really like that idea. That'd be
really cool because they get to be creative and
come up with something that is just totally silly.
Yeah, but you're right like instead. Yeah, they
would I think you're right They would pick the
right part of speech I think after having read
it through the first time you could yeah, like
what's something else instead of This that we
could pick. Yeah, they could do it Yeah, and
you know, that's what we're the adults are there
for too If you need to scaffold and give a little
support that would be okay, too To still come
up with a fun story that everybody enjoys. That'd
be really awesome. Yeah, I love that idea Yeah,
I haven't tried it yet, but probably next year.
Actually, definitely next year. Whoa! That's
fun. Okay. Yeah, it'll be cool. Yeah, it will.
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