The Chase Library had a couple of visitors from another planet, who decided the best place to learn about nearly anything is a library. They discovered a book opened for display, deciding it must be of great importance: Mother Goose Rhymes.
The two muppet- like aliens discussed how they needed to learn as much as they could about earthlings.
“Jack be nimble, jack be quick, Jack jumped over the candlestick. Earthlings can’t be all that intelligent playing with fire,” one alien told the other.
“And they must be lazy,” said the other alien after reading that Little Boy Blue was fast asleep while his animals ran amok.
“Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. That’s it,” said alien number one, “We’d better get out of here quick, earthlings are planning to take over the universe!”
TNRD library outreach resource, Ashley Little, produced and performed the Space Creatures Meet Mother Goose puppet show on Wednesday, July 4. She also put together a craft session for young library patrons, creating alien puppets from paper bags.
Little drew from Amazingly Easy Puppet Plays, a book by Dee Anderson, for the play.
Two more special events have been planned during the summer at the Chase Library:
Weird Science and Slime will happen Wednesday, July 18 from 1 to 2 p.m. Alien Invasion Masks will be the theme for Wednesday, Aug. 1 from 1 to 2 p.m.
