I guess it’s like the old saying goes: when life gives you lemons, invent a lemonade-powered intergalactic rocket and make friends with an astronaut spider monkey. Or that other old saying: what goes around, comes around, unless what goes around is a catfish riding a unicycle with coronavirus … in which case that guy can just keep on cycling! Point is, this Book Week has been the BEST of times, it’s been the WORST of times, but in the end, we got through it! We started as library monitors, then we had our shiny badges snatched from us and now we’ve won (or earned) them back. Gold stars! If I was excited the first time to be a library monitor, I’m over the moon this time. And I’ve actually BEEN over the moon, so that’s really saying something. I’m sad for Casper N and Jenny Philpot, who’ve now been totally fired by Ms Murtle, but you can hardly blame her. They were a little TOO enthusiastic about being library monitors, if you know what I mean. They tried to take my fingerprints and started BANNING people from the library for overdue books! That’s when things went downhill for them, because a library is really a place for everyone. Anyway, maybe they’ll get another turn one day … but not THIS day! Because let me tell you … this time I am going to be the BEST library monitor that ever lived.
Yours astronautically,
Jimmy Cook