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PETE THE CAT COMING TO THE LIBRARY
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ric Litwin, the award-winning musician, teacher and author of the popular Pete the Cat series performs on Wednesday, October 9 at 6:30 pm, in Marin Auditorium. Litwin describes himself as “a guitar strumming, book writing, harmonica blowing, song singing, folksy, and fun type of guy.” The kids call him “Mr. Eric,” a holdover from his days as an Atlanta, Ga. school teacher who used simple, musical and interactive stories with positive messages to teach kids to read. Back in 2008, with the help of a cat name “Pete,” Litwin became a # 1 New York Times best-selling author, with more than a million copies sold of the first four Pete the Cat picture books: I Love My White Shoes, Rocking in My School Shoes, Four Groovy Buttons
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and Pete the Cat Saves Christmas. He is now working on new characters that incorporate interaction, music and positive messages. Litwin is also a nationally respected keynote speaker on interactive literacy and music. He is the co-creator of The Learning Groove, which offers parent and child music classes and preschool music curriculum. So bring the family to the library and get ready to sing, dance, laugh and fall in love with books. “It’s all good.”
"The moral of Pete's story is: No matter what you step in, keep walking along and singing your song. Because it's all good." Eric Litwin, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
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our library card is your entertainment passport to digital movies and TV shows that you can enjoy wherever you go. Fill up your iPad, Kindle Fire, tablet, laptop or other device with free entertainment that will captivate you or your kids for hours. Login often as new titles are added weekly. Go to tscpl.org/hoopla to try this service. Pick from hundreds of titles, like Anthony Bourdain, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Dark Shadows, Caillou, Ken Burns documentaries and fitness videos that are hard to find on similar services like Hulu and Netflix. Using our service, you’ll pay no subscription costs. Items return themselves – after 3 days for movies, 7 days for music and 3 weeks for TV shows and audiobooks – so you’ll never incur late fees. You can also download music and audiobooks, including artists like Kanye West and authors like Suzanne Collins. This new service is called Hoopla, but with all it has to offer, you may be calling it your new best friend. continued on page 5 see HOOPLA