'Little Elena Marie Guzman screamed. 'There's a bug! I saw a great big green slimy bug between the books!'  Her brother, Charles Ernesto Guzman rolled his eyes. 'Elena....what is it now? You'll get us both kicked out of the library.' His eight year old sister walked over to the table where her older brother and two other children sat reading. 'I saw a bug!' she said with tears in her eyes. 'You're seeing things!' her brother snapped.
' I did see a bug! It was long and green and slimy!' Elena Marie cried. 'Oh brother!' said Charles. 'Sit down here, Elena, and I'll go check it out.' Charles Ernesto boldly got out of his chair and walked over to the Fiction section marked A-D.  'I don't see any green slimy bugs here, Elena. You're imagining things!'  'I am not um-egging things!' cried Elena, her voice rising in decibels with each misprounounced syllable.  'He's there! I saw a bug between those books!'
                                 ----Excertpt from Bartholomew, Second Edition, by Mary Aris, Copyright 2010 Lulu, 86 pages, ISBN: 978-1445789583 .

















Bartholomew is a cute story about a real Bookworm named Bartholomew who lives on a shelf  in the Children's Department of the William Wayne Public Library in between the pages of Aesop's Fables,  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Three Muskateers.
One day a little girl discovered him while searching the library shelves for a book to read. Her brother didn't believe her but when he took a closer look he was amazed to discover a talking bookworm. Ms Dubois, the children's Librarian thought Charles was fibbing but when she discovered the talking Bookworm,the William Wayne Public Library has never been the same again!  This story encourages children of all ages to read and visit the library. The book is wonderfully illustrated by the author.

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