Acclaimed children's author Katherine Applegate is coming to my library!
Tonight!
And not just for a casual visit. Not just to get a library card and then mysteriously leave the library without checking anything out. Not just to ask me if I can help her fax something.
No, it is for an author event.
Katherine Applegate wrote a very popular book called The One and Only Ivan which was a major motion picture (never saw it), won the Newbery Award, and will possibly come to be considered a classic, though after only 11 years it's hard to tell for sure with that sort of thing.
I liked it, and isn't that all that's important?
Katherine Applegate also wrote a popular series of books called "Animorphs", which were ubiquitous around here a quarter century ago. They all had strangely compelling pictures of young people turning into animals on the cover. I don't believe I ever managed to read through a whole one of those, but I have been known to work in a similar photographic oeuvre to the cover art for them.
So we are expecting three billion people to come to this event.
That sounds like a lot, but we've brought in several extra chairs.
Many people wonder how we managed to score such a magnificently famous big time author.
It wasn't pretty.
It looked like the Saint Paul Library system was going to get Ms Applegate to speak at one of their libraries, so we sent some burglars in to their administrative offices in the middle of the night to plant bugs to give us an advantage.
Then our burglars got arrested!
There was a bit of a scandal, a shameful cover-up, and there were resignations.
The whole thing came to be known as...
Applegate.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
And that is how we came to have Gerald Ford as our library director.
Here is the commemorative picture of Katherine Applegate and her main charcter I made for this event. I'm too shy to show her, but if she wanders into our break room, or reads clerkmanifesto every day before breakfast, then she can see it.
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