Special to the News-Sun
LAKE PLACID - Junior Miss Highlands County Phoebe Phypers and Little Miss Highlands County Aubrey Lanier recently made a special appearance at the Lake Placid Memorial Library to visit the children participating in the summer reading program "Nite-Nite".
Adorned in their pajamas with their favorite stuffed pal, the queens talked about their pageant experiences and the responsibilities involved with the achievement of these titles. They encouraged the children to be involved in activities around their community and to keep reading. The pageant queens demonstrated how reading is such an important lifetime activity when they took turns reading to the children.
All of the summer reading participants listened intently as the queens read through the tale. Their reading offering was "Knuffle Bunny: a Cautionary Tale" by the popular children's author Mo Willems. This hilarious, heartwarming story tells about Trixie, a toddler who misplaces her stuffed bunny on a trip to the laundry with her father. The story has a happy ending when Knuffle Bunny is found and Trixie says her very first words.
Young readers and their families can follow Trixie's adventures with three other Willems books available at the Lake Placid Memorial Library, and throughout the Heartland Library Cooperative.
Schedules for Lake Placid's upcoming children and teen programs including Science First Starlab, movies, guest speakers, a live "Clue" game and a library lockin are available at the Heartland Library Cooperative website www.myhlc.org and the Summer Program blog: http://myhlc.blogspot.com.
Contact the library at 699-3705.
Sunday, July 01, 2012 - www.newssun.com/070112-Little-Jr-Miss-visit