Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I am Caroline Legere.
And this is Librarians of Littles, a podcast
where we share books, makerspace activities,
and tips and tricks for working with our youngest
learners in the library setting. This week, we
have two books with a patriotic theme. By the
time this comes out, it'll be right before the
4th of July. And so we thought that we would
select some patriotic books that might be fun
to use in the library setting with younger students
just to fit the theme for Fourth of July and
being patriotic for our country. And so we're
going to discuss two books that fit that criteria.
The first of which is the book called F is for
Flag. It is published by Penguin Random House
in 2002. The author is Wendy Cheyette -Lewison.
and the illustrator is Barbara Duke. This book
did not win any awards or is on any lists, and
this book is kind of a little bit more off the
beaten path. It's not as well known, and honestly,
the information that we gathered about the author
and illustrator is minimal at best. The author,
Wendy Cheyette -Lewison, there she doesn't have
her own website and the limited information that
we found about her included some of the books
that she wrote and the fact that she lives in
New York. So there's very little information
about her but she has done quite a few books.
Some of those books include Buzz Said the Bee
illustrated by Hans Wilhelm. Clifford's Loose
Tooth. She did that with Norman Bridwell. That's
part of the Clifford series. L is for Liberty,
illustrated by Laura Freeman Hines. P is for
President, illustrated by Valerio Fabretti. Don't
Wake the Baby, illustrated by Jerry Smaath. 2
is for Twins, illustrated by Hiro Nakata. I wear
my tutu everywhere, illustrated by Mary Morgan,
and many more. Our illustrator, Barbara Duke,
was born in Australia and had an interest in
art from an early age. She taught herself how
to be an artist with the help of an occasional
workshop. After working in pen and pencils, she
moved on to paintings, and now she has paintings
in art shows and galleries and... for sale online.
And we actually didn't find any other books that
we could gather that she illustrated. So according
to the internets and everything that I could
find this might have been her only book that
she illustrated. So this particular book is a
non -fiction book. about the American flag, where
it can be seen, its meanings, the meanings of
the parts, and the thoughts on its original creation.
This is actually, it's a pretty good book. It's
pretty simple. But I thought it was pretty cute.
It gives a lot of good information about the
flag, where we see it, how to be respectful of
it. It includes the Pledge of Allegiance. It
includes the reasons behind the stripes and the
stars. The fact that it has changed over years
based on the number of states that we've had.
It even mentions the fact the story of Betsy
Ross Creating the first one and it does include
it listed as a story not the actual Factual information
about the fact that that's probably not how the
original flag was created And so it's a it's
a cute story. I liked it I think it's very informational
and it's it's written at a level where it would
be a good book for pre -k and early elementary
students to get some of this information, to
introduce some of those concepts about the flag,
how we treat it, what it represents, the Pledge
of Allegiance is listed in there as well, and
so kind of introducing the students to some of
these things. Pre -K students that are already
in school, they're already familiar with some
of the parts, like the Pledge of Allegiance and
that kind of thing. They probably do it every
morning as part of their either morning meeting
or announcements or whatever their campus does.
So going over that and kind of explaining what
some of that means, talking about the flag itself,
giving up just some context to the flag. Why?
We treat it with the respect that it gets and
the meaning behind it I thought it was a good
story that really works well To introduce these
starting concepts to younger students This would
not be the kind of book that you'd want to be
trying to read to like fourth or fifth grade
students But for pre -k kindergarten, I think
it's a good solid story that would be able to
give the kids Some knowledge and the pictures
I think were pretty great as far as helping to
relay the context of the story They're bright
and vivid. So the kids will be able to see all
of those parts to the flag and the different
Places where flags are flown and seen that kind
of thing. So I think overall it's a pretty solid
book I would give it I don't know probably Three
and a half or four out of five bookmarks. It's
a it's a solid story lots of information, and
I think it would be a good book for the week
of 4th July. They do also mention Flag Day, so
you could use it for Flag Day, too, in June if
that's something that comes up. Yeah, I hadn't
read this book before. I had to look it up on
YouTube. There's a YouTube online read -aloud
for it, which actually had kind of a lot of views.
I was kind of surprised at how popular it was
on YouTube. but that's okay. I agree that I would
give it about a three and a half out of five.
I think I thought it was a pretty decent non
-fiction book. I liked that it was kind of a
lot of the non -fiction books that you read that
are for younger kids are exceptionally dry and
I this one wasn't quite as dry as a typical non
-fiction one. I didn't think it was a little
bit The tone felt a little bit more conversational,
which made it slightly more relatable than the
average non -fiction book for pre -K and kinder.
So yeah, I thought that they did a pretty good
job kind of explaining all the different parts
of the flag. I think because it went to such
detail with all the things, it looked like you
could easily like just focus in on a couple of
pages if there was a couple of particular concepts
that you were working on. It was, it would be,
you'd be able to just single out parts of it
to work on those concepts in particular. And
there are a couple of pre -K guidelines in, in
Texas, the, the state of Texas has their own
guidelines for pre -K that they're required to
teach. They're different than the, in other states
that there's common core and in Texas we do teaks,
but. Pre -K is special and has guidelines and
there are two guidelines specifically that relate
to the flag and like teachers are required to
teach about the flag and the Pledge of Allegiance
and the for both the state of Texas and for the
United States of America. And this did introduce
both of those concepts as well. So it's an exceptionally
good book for Texas schools too. So yeah, it
was a good book. It was. And yeah, like you said,
nonfiction books kind of are hit or miss. And
this one I felt was a better of the nonfiction
books that for younger students that I've seen.
So I agree. So a makerspace activity that you
can incorporate with this book. I came up with
one that would be pretty fun to do using some
construction paper, some glue and possibly scissors,
depending on the time of year that you do this
and how much practice the students have had.
If not scissors, you could definitely have them
tear paper and it would still work completely.
So the activity would be to give the students
some construction paper and have them use that
construction paper to make their own flag. You
could do one of two things with this. You could
have them design their own flag for themselves
and they could come up with different parts of
the flag and give meanings to those parts. Or
what I would probably end up doing is giving
the students like just a sheet of paper and then
giving them red and blue and white paper for
them to construct their own American flag and
kind of give them some leeway on how they design
their American flag but to include the red white
and blue to include having those stripes they
can tear the strips of paper or cut strips of
paper to make stripes and create their stars
and their blue their banner of blue to put the
stars on, that kind of thing, and have them create
their own American flag. So after reading about
this book, they could then walk out of the library
with an American flag that they've made out of
construction paper themselves. Just a fun way
to have the students kind of show what they've
learned about the American flag and see if they
can identify the different parts of it by creating
their own, yeah. Yeah, that's a really good hands
-on way to learn a little bit more about the
flag. Yeah, good one. Okay, so this week for
our library of littles management tip or trick
At my campus. I only see two classes of pre -k,
but I actually use this tip for pre -k through
second grade the students in pre -k through second
grade on my campus they library cards. I don't
after second grade my students don't have library
cards anymore because they've learned their ID
numbers and so they can type in their own ID
number and scan their books and take care of
their stuff that way. But for the younger students
they don't know. I'm not expecting them to learn
their ID number yet and be able to type that
into the computer. So we create library cards
for them. The first step is I just use some index
cards and I will print the class. list of barcodes.
The barcode will have their ID number and their
name on it. I put them on labels, put those labels
onto an index card, and then under the barcode,
under the label, I will usually write in like
a black sharpie the student's names nice and
big by what they go by, not necessarily the name.
like their legal name that's on the barcode.
So like if a student's name is Michael, but they
go by Mikey, that's what I write. I write Mikey
underneath the barcode so that the kids can find
the name that they're working on identifying
anyway in text and they can find their cards
pretty quickly that way. So that's the first
thing. I create the library cards for each class
and then being able to organize them and have
them ready to go for each class. can be challenging
at times. I've done it a couple different ways
in the past. I've had like a basket where each
class has their own like Ziploc baggie and you
can put the cards into that Ziploc baggie and
you have it in a basket and you can just pull
that baggie out and pull out the cards. Or what
I found that's a little bit easier is actually
using one of those... I want to say it's like
a pocket chart that has like rows of pockets
where you can just kind of slide the cards right
into a pocket and you can label those pockets
by grade level and by teacher's name so you can
just go over and find the grade level and the
teacher's name pull that stack of cards and I
tend to I try to have the cards out on my circulation
desk spread out so that the students can see
all of them before my Students come into the
library because once they come in to the library
and we get them the carpet I want to be able
to do my lesson and as soon as my lessons over
I want them to be able to get up and check out
books and if We have some kids that pick books
really quickly and if I'm still trying to put
out all the cards and stuff It slows down the
process. So if I have the cards out Before the
kids get there as soon as I release them They
can go find a book and go straight over to the
computer and start finding their cards And then
I'll be there or the teacher if with pre -k the
teacher will be around in the library So the
teachers know how to scan the cards and the books
if it's not the teacher Then it's me that's over
there at the computer to help out But the kids
find their card and hand the card and the book
over so that they can be scanned I keep the card
They keep the book. And then once everybody's
checked out their books, any cards that are still
left on the counter, I can look and be like,
is this kid absent? Did they just not pick a
book? Like we can figure out what's going on
with that. And then once I have all the cards
again, I just collect them, put them right back
in that pocket and wait until the next time they
come to the library. It's a nice way to keep
it organized. It's a nice way to know. Like I
can also, one thing that I do is like, when we
get new students it's really easy for me to put
a post -it note on the outside of the pocket
for that class with who needs a new barcode so
that like every Friday before I leave I go through
and grab all those post -it notes and print out
the new barcodes that I need and put them back
into the bright pockets and then start the next
week. with everybody's barcodes with their every
library card so if like the first week somebody's
new clearly i won't have their barcode but i'll
make a note to myself and put a post -it note
on that pocket so that i know on friday before
i leave i need to print those barcodes and i
have the new barcodes for the next week so that
those kids have their library cards that second
time they get into the library which is a nice
way just to keep up with it i just have a set
time before i leave on friday where i print any
new barcodes for any new library cards that i
need And then go on with my weekend. No big deal.
And the next week I already know that they'll
have their library card. So just kind of a nice
way to keep organized and be able to remind myself
of different things that I need to do. I found
that when I did it in like a Ziploc bag in a
basket, those notes about who needed new library
card and stuff like that kind of get lost and
end up in the ether. And I'll forget and. Then
the next week they come in and I still didn't
make them their new library card that kind of
thing So I just find that the pocket chart kind
of thing helps makes it a little bit easier and
you can find like Kind of like the narrow ones
that don't take up a ton of space somewhere To
keep them where it's not a huge deal. It's not
taking up a ton of space On a wall somewhere
that you might need to have something else. I
have a couple small little like one and a half
foot wide sections of wall behind my circulation
desk and I just kind of have it hung there so
that I can get get them as I need them. So yeah.
I like that idea. Nice way to stay organized.
Yeah. You know. I have not made library cards
yet. I'm looking forward to doing that next year.
I have always just used the class lists that
are provided within our cataloging system and
yeah, just call kids up one at a time because
I've only had four and five year olds, so I Don't
know. I tried to I think my first year, but it
didn't work out But it was okay. It was just
our our population was a little too transient
Yeah, and we had to get that yeah, and so yeah,
I will say one thing that I do like for the entire
campus is I do also have a binder on my circulation
desk where I print out just on paper the class
list of barcodes and I have that broken down
by grade level and by teachers so like even so
my kids that are third fourth and fifth grade
and don't have a library card if they still haven't
learned their barcode they can go there to find
their bar their ID number to type in but I also
have it just that way because if If I have a
sub, sometimes it's easier just to be like, there's
the page. And so they can use that binder instead
of trying to find like library cards, which pocket
and that kind of thing. That's a great idea.
So I do have all of that printed out that way.
And I will say though, like when we get back
to school at the end of July into August, as
soon as the class lists are made, the first thing
I do is I go through and I keep, so like at the
end of this last year, I kept all of my library
cards for my kinder students and my first grade
students. And so I have right now, I just have
a giant stack of first grade student library
cards and a giant stack of kindergarten student
library cards. And so I will, once class lists
are made, I'll go through and find all of the
library cards that I've already made from this
past year and I'll organize them into classes.
Anybody that's not on a class list that I had
a library card for, I put those to the side because
inevitably that first week and a half of school,
some of those kids... Just didn't register and
will end up in a class so I can go and grab cards
from that stack still before I don't just immediately
destroy them I keep them around for a couple
weeks and Then any new student that I do not
have a barcode They just moved into the school
area or whatever. I make them new cards and put
those into the class So I have like a good starting
base of library cards for my second grade my
what will be second grade and first grade students
then I can go through, and any pre -K students
that I had cards for, that stack is much smaller,
because I only have two classes of those anyway.
But I'll split them for the kindergarten, and
then kindergarten's where a lot of kids, I have
to make brand new library cards anyway, so I'll
spend a day making library cards for those students.
I won't put the name, like I won't write their
name in Sharpie until I've seen them. for any
new student, I don't write their name in Sharpie
on the card until after I've seen them and spoken
with them, because I like to know what they go
by and what they want to be called as far as
nicknames and stuff like that. So I leave that
until I've actually seen them and spoken with
them. And then I'll put that on the card as well.
But yeah, it's nice because I'll have 90 % of
the second grade library cards ready to go. on
the first day of school love it because i kept
them all the first grade ones and so i don't
remake them i just move them up yeah it makes
sense for a grade you know and so it's a nice
way to to limit how many new library cards i
have to make first off yeah because like note
cards not expensive but also i don't want to
be going through it's not expensive but when
you have like 600 kids Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So yeah,
I don't want to go through 300 note cards every
year just to make cards, especially when honestly,
the amount of time the kids handle the library
cards is pretty minimal. Because like I said,
I have I keep track of them, I keep them on the
counter, they all they have to do is find their
card on the counter, scan it, and then there's
a spot where they place the card once it's been
scanned. to collect them to have a stack so that
I can just grab them all again anyway so like
they're not in bad condition I'm gonna use them
for a couple years and keep track of them that
way save myself some ink and some labels and
note cards and just keep reusing them but yeah
that's how I keep track of my library cards and
it really is nice that the kids can use the cards
and know how they work. Like I said, once my
kids get to third grade, I'm like, okay, you
need your ID number for lunch. You need your
ID number to get into any of the online programs
that we use. You should start testing. They need
to have their ID number to log into their computer.
Asking in third grade for students to start memorizing
a five -digit number seems reasonable to me.
And so, yeah. That's when I'm like, okay, you're
done with library cards. Start learning this
number. Most of the kids, honestly, if they've
been on the campus for any amount of time, they've
learned that number because like I said, they
use it for taking care of lunch and getting into
their devices and that kind of stuff. So it's
really not that bad and it works out pretty well.
Cool. Yeah. Well, thank you. Yeah. I will be
doing that next year. It's gonna be great. All
right, well, the next book that we're gonna talk
about today is Duck for President. It is published
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in
2004. The author is Doreen Cronin and the illustrator
is Betsy Lewin. And this book is part of that
classic Click Clack Moo series. This book won
the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award,
and it was a CCBC Choice Book, and it won the
New York Young Apples Book Award for 2013, which
I thought was interesting because that was like
10 years after it was published. But I'm not
going to ask too many questions about that. That's
okay. Yeah. So Doreen Cronin is a critically
acclaimed children's book author. She was born
in Queens, New York and she grew up in Long Island
and she currently lives in Brooklyn with her
family. She's written a whole lot of children's
books. She has over 20 books listed. on her website
but I'm pretty sure she's written more than that.
Some of her more popular books that she's written
include the Click Clack Moo series, there's the
Diary of the Worm series and the Chicken Squad
series. I love those books by the way. I know.
Like all of her books are so great. They really
are. When I was a classroom teacher and I taught
like third and fourth grade we would read the
Diary of a Worm series books. And like, especially
in like third and fourth grade, the students
in Texas are expected to do like research projects
and stuff. And so we would read that series of
books and then each student would pick their,
I would have the students pick their own animal,
do research on it. And then they would make their
own diary of whatever. Oh, that's so cute. And
so it was a fun way for it to do it. Especially
in fourth grade because in fourth grade at the
time I was teaching in the classroom They had
to be able to to do a lot of they had to do a
lot of writing because a state test required
a lot of like writing yeah, so to allow them
to do some creative writing but also show the
information that they learned from their research
was really cool and so like I love during all
of during Cronin spoke she she's amazing when
it comes to to writing and just it's so much
fun there because they're always so So engaging
for the students. So they are they're super engaging
and then she always writes books that like It's
pretty easy to find activities like that that
are like extension activities that are really
Encourage kids to be extra creative and especially
extra good writers. Yeah, really good stuff All
right, and for our illustrator Betsy Lewin, I
did not know that Betsy Lewin is currently 88
years old. That was a new fun fact for me. Really?
Wow. I know. And she's still doing school visits
and such. Yeah, they're still. Yes. I know on
her website for both Doreen Cronin and Betsy
Lewin, like they do. They both do school visits
still. And but I did not know Betsy Lewin was
as old as she is and still like she's still.
Working hard, but. She always wanted to be an
artist for as long as she could remember. Her
mother was a kindergarten teacher and instilled
a lifelong passion for children's books in her
by reading to her every day. She graduated from
Pratt Institute where she studied illustration.
After graduating she began designing greeting
cards and then she later began to write and illustrate
stories for children's magazines until one day
one of the stories was extended and became a
book. From there she moved on to creating all
kinds of children's books and she's one that
Caldecott honor for click clack moo cows that
type and was awarded the an honor for the very
first ever Geisel Award for illustrating cowgirl
Kate and Coco which was written by Erica Silverman
I know I didn't know how cool she like I knew
she was great and like I knew her name and everything
but I was like researching her I was like well
That's an impressive lady there. Absolutely.
Yeah. She has illustrated over 40 children's
books. Some of the more notable ones are the
Click Clack Moo series that are written by Doreen
Cronin. She's also written and illustrated quite
a few of them all on her own, including You Can
Do It, Thumpy Feet, Good Night Night, and Animal
Snackers. She also works with her husband Ted
Lewin, he's an illustrator as well, and they
have collaborated together to write a number
of non -fiction books including Elephant Quest,
Gorilla Walk, Puffling Patrol, and How to Babysit
a Leopard. That's really cool that they can they
work together to make some of those books. That's
awesome It's really cute and on their website
They've got like pictures of the two of them
together going to all these exotic locations
so they can research all these animals It's kind
of adorable and they're all like they're both
like almost 90 now and still just doing all the
things It's pretty inspiring. Yeah Yeah All right,
so Duck for President is a pretty popular book.
I'm going to go ahead and go through the summary
anyway, though, but it is kind of classic. I
think this is probably the go -to that most schools
use when they're introducing voting, but for
the summary for this one. Farmer Brown works
hard on the farm every day and every day he gets
up. He ends up filthy from all the hard work
that it takes to keep the farm running in good
condition. To help out Farmer Brown enlists all
of the farm animals unsatisfied with his daily
barnyard chores, Duck decides to hold an election
against Farmer Brown for a kinder, gentler farm,
when he wins that election and learns how much.
Work it really takes for him to run a farm on
his own, Duck decides to further change things
by running for governor. It turns out that running
a state is also too much work for him, so of
course he thinks he can continue to change things
by running for president. And after winning the
presidential election, Duck learns once again
that running the country is, in fact, even more
work. Still dissatisfied with his lot in life,
duck searches for jobs in the local paper only
to find a job back as an opening for a duck back
at the farm with Farmer Brown. I think this book
is a classic for a reason it's when you go through
and when everybody's voting for all the things
like it's a really good one like it shows like
the number of people voting for from Farmer Brown
versus the number of people or animals I guess
voting for duck so you can do it's pretty easy
to see like to compare the numbers you can do
like a number sense kind of lesson with it and
it has talks about recounts and everything because
naturally the loser of the race always wants
to recount so you can talk about the recount
with it and it does like i like that it goes
through and has like the different levels of
government so you can talk about why there's
so many elections and how there's different elections
for different things and what all the different
people do in government. It's just an all around
kind of amazing book, like that you can really
take it to a lot of different levels. So I mean,
this one I think is a classic for a reason. I
think it's a five out of five. It's still pretty
funny and it's engaging and like the rest of
Doreen Cronin's work really kind of makes it
more relatable for kids and pretty easily. provides
extension activities for everybody. So great
book, I thought. Yeah. Agreed. Agreed. Yeah.
I know that every election year, this is a like
go to book for so many teachers to discuss what
the election is and how it works and all that.
So this is always, always a classic. Absolutely.
I love this book. It's wonderful. Yeah. Yeah,
it is a classic and it's probably on everybody's
list already, but It's just it's a classic for
a reason we need we need good books and this
is one of them and this is especially with talking
about elections and anything with government
really for our younger kids. It's such a hard
concept to understand because it's so abstract
and it's so kids are so far removed from that
and they feel like none of it, of course it does
affect all of us in our daily lives, but it can
be hard to see that on the day to day. So especially
for our younger learners where it's, if it doesn't,
if they can't really see it happening to them
right then, like it doesn't usually exist for
them. So solidifying some of these concepts like
an election is really difficult, but this book
does that. So, sorry. I know I was just this
book is also one of those books where like we
live in a very like contentious time for politics
and this book just does such a great job of explaining
how an election works without getting into like
parties and like, yeah, getting into like it
into like a an area where like a parent like
this is the book like you can read this book,
and not worry that some parents going to be upset
that you read a book about this with this like
it's not leaning or the other it is just just
like focused on here's how elections work. And
it's just like, which is really nice. Like, because
librarians we Our job is relatively political
as it is, but. Yeah, it should be, but it is
sad. But when we're giving, when we're doing
things with our students, like whether, no matter
which way you lean, your, your predilections
for whichever way you, you lean shouldn't be
something that. drives your lessons and it shouldn't
be something that you're trying to sway students
one way or the other. And so this is just a great
book that it's clean cut. It just explains here's
how elections work, whatever party you're a part
of. This is the rules that we follow to have
an election work. And so it's just a nice book
that like, there's no worry about like someone
being upset about like, this is just one of those
books that like, there's nothing to complain
about with it. It's just perfect to introduce
the concept and not have to be like stressed
out. So it's nice because a lot of books, even
when they're not intentionally doing so, kind
of end up leaning one way or the other. And so
someone's going to get upset, but this one is
just like straightforward. And so it's just nice
to have that. Yeah, that's a good point. It's
true. So for the makerspace activity for this
one. I thought it would be fun to have kids vote
for their own for whichever makerspace activity
they wanted. I think if I was going to do this
and actually I have done this in the classroom
where I'll pick like three or four centers on
my own and say these are the ones that we're
going to play with no matter what. But you guys
can pick this extra bonus center and I let the
kids vote on whichever one they like the most.
So with Pre -K though, and probably with kindergarten
as well, maybe even first grade. Actually I think
all kids do this no matter their age level. Like
if you just ask them to like raise their hand...
or something like that to vote for something
like, you're going to have kids that don't listen
and just raise their hand for all the things.
And you're going to end up with kids that are
double voting. So when I do voting, um, which
is illegal, true story. So when I do voting for
kids for pre -k anyway, um, I will physically
move. Like I'll have, like, if I was going to
have them vote on like Legos or Coda Pillars.
I would have like Legos on one side of the room
and then the Coda Pillars on the other side of
the room and have everybody stand up and physically
move to whichever one they want to play with
so that they can't vote twice. And I do this
too with like when I do book fair. I'll let the
kids pick a book from the book fair that they
want to read and I'll have two books and I'll
put one on one side of the room and the other
at the other side of the room and everybody has
to get up and physically move to wherever they
want and then they just sit down wherever at
whatever activity they want but they're not allowed
to move yet and then we count the number of kids
at each section and then we talk about which
one has more kids and then we come back together
and talk about which one has more. That's the
winner because more kids wanted that. So it's
a more tangible way where the kids can physically
see there's more kids that want this activity.
then they super duper can't vote twice because
he can't be in two places at once and I do have
fewer kids that are like confused as to like
it I think it because they can see there's more
kids over there it feels more fair to them too
like they can really understand a little bit
better not completely but a little bit but well
I think they can understand it actually it's
just a few kids are gonna still be sad about
Losing because that's just life, but it just
makes it a little bit easier to understand that
and there's less complaining about You know,
I lost oh, no So yeah, I think that would be
my makerspace activity for this. Mm -hmm. I love
that. That's awesome And yeah, I think getting
them up and physically moving is a great way
to do that because then like you said they can't
vote more than once because That they sure do.
I don't I don't know how much of it is like,
well, actually, some of them probably do try
and vote more than once. But then there's quite
a few kids who just straight up don't listen
and aren't paying attention. Just don't have
any clue. Yeah, they just hear raise your hand
and they're like on it. So that helps for that,
too. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you all for joining
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