Welcome to Mount Prospect Public
Library's "Library Life." I'm Cathy Cushing.
Today we'll enjoy a Library event
showcasing local school principals
reading their favorite children's books.
We'll also catch a glimpse of Friday Fun
Day, a monthly young adult series with a
creative flair, and we'll discover how to
prevent falls while promoting core
strength and balance.
But first let's immerse ourselves in
popular culture and fandom as we peek in
on MPPL FanFest 2019.
The Mount Prospect Public Library kicks off its
first ever FanFest with an all-day
celebration incorporating a little
something for everybody. I think one of
the things that we really wanted to do
was allow everyone to celebrate their
fandom in their own way. It's your
passion, and librarians are all about
passions, whether you're, you're
passionate about education or whether
you're passionate about books or even
movies or pop culture, the library has
something for everyone so we really want
you to come in and explore your passions.
I think because we see so many people in
here interested in so many different
things we wanted to call it just a fan
fest because you could be a fan of
anything and we are here to support that
for you. Participants begin their fan
fest quest with a special and tangible
greeting. The welcome bags are, were, were
basically swag bags. We wanted people to
be able to have something to hold
anything that you would get around the
library, you know, if you did an activity
sheet or if you did a coloring sheet or
you made a mask, you know, something to
put that in there. It was also a way for
us to give out some prizes.
Dark Horse was one of our sponsors for
the event so they sent us a lot of comic
books,
they sent us lanyards, they sent us some
pins, they sent us some other things like
that, so those are all in there.
Also it allows us to give a schedule in
there so people know what time and where
things are in the library.
Patrons of all ages embrace the spirit
of the day, many donning costumes as they
make their way through a myriad of
fandom related activities, including a
library-wide scavenger hunt, creative
crafts in the Youth Services Department,
photo ops with some beloved celebs, and a
bit of cosplay. Cosplay stands for
costume play and we really came up with
something where you can go around the
room and really see a costume come from
a brainstorm to how you're gonna make it
and some of the materials that you're
going to use and some of the ways that
you can craft it until you finally get
your final product. Those who enjoy
gaming are treated to a superfight board
game, a fandom feud trivia game, and the
opportunity to try their hand at virtual
reality. Virtual reality is a newer
fandom, I mean, people are into that. You
know, people that really like computer
games or graphics or that kind of thing
so it kind of fits in and and we have
that over, overhanging arch of
everybody's welcome and everybody can do
you know, whatever they're passionate
about and that was just a piece of that.
Graphic novel and comic strip fans enjoy
the chance to meet and learn from three
local professionals during an author/
illustrator panel discussion featuring
comics creators Ivan Brunetti,
Michael Moreci, and Katie Schenkel. The
panel is really about the process of
creating comics. There's a lot of
interesting opinions about how to make
comics and there's not enough focus on
that relationship between writers and
artists and editors and I think that's
very special and it's something that
that we really got to talk about at the
panel. I just try to share my experience
in such a way that it hopefully inspires
other people to just pick up a pencil or
a pen and whatever notebook they have
and they just get started because that's
really what I do and I just try to
demystify it a little bit. When you're
writing and creating it's to do it for
yourself. It's easy for writers,
especially young writers, to get
distracted with a lot of different
concerns and I think it's better to
remember that like the point you want to
be at is the point that you're most
comfortable at, doing the things that you
want to do and things that make you the
most happy. And if rewards come from that,
that's great. I like the immediacy of it,
and the humble nature of it that you're
just working with, you know, pen and paper.
Right now, I mean, popular culture is very
much based on graphic novels. There's so
many movies and television shows that
started as graphic novels so they really
kind of found their way into all aspects
of popular culture. Even as these notable
author-illustrators inspire their
audience they become inspired by FanFest,
and the ideals behind this
energetic community event. I am so
excited that Mount Prospect is doing
this. I love libraries, and I think
they're a really amazing way for kids to
find out about books and about stories
and any way that that libraries can do
events like this and really pull kids
into reading is really special.
Brings people out, it gives you an
opportunity to, you know, wear cool
costumes and do these things that they
you know, normally don't have maybe an
outlet to do, and and be surrounded with
cool books and get an opportunity to be
exposed to new things and just be part
of a community, I mean, along with
literacy, one of the most important
things for any, for all of us is
community, and and this is what this is,
is building a community. Everyone is
welcome. We have something for you no
matter who you are. We want the community
to feel like they can always come here.
You know, and they can come here not just
for books and not just for movies, but
they can come here for meeting other
community members, they can come here for
family activities, things that they can
do together, that, you know, they they can
have an experience. So I think it's just
the immersiveness and the passion that
we offer and the help that we offer and
that we are here for the community and
we welcome them with open arms.
Developing one's core strength and
balance can reduce the risk of falling
and perhaps help to prevent one of the
main causes of debilitating injury.
Joining me today on "Library Life" to
discuss her library program
Don't Fall: Test Your Strength and
Balance is physical therapist Diana
Sahakian, and welcome. Thank you so much for
having me, it's great to be here.
Diana, let's start out by talking a
little bit about your background in the
field of physical therapy. Yeah, so this
year marks my 20th year as a physical
therapist. which is hard for me to
believe. I graduated in 1999 from
Northwestern physical therapy, a master's
degree from downtown Chicago, and I
started working right after in a
corporate clinic setting and I learned a
lot from a great mentor about how to
grow a clinic and run a clinic and
became a director shortly after
finishing school. And I come from a
family of a lot of physicians and
doctors doing their own clinics and so
there was a bug in me to always open my
own practice, and so a few years after
being in corporate health and really
kind of learning a lot but seeing the
trends towards greater limitations to
being able to do your own ideas and
things, I wanted to open my own practice,
and so in 2006 we had moved to Mount
Prospect the year before, my family, and
so I decided to open my own clinic in
downtown Mount Prospect. And I've been
doing that for 13 years now. Well that is
very entrepreneurial of you. So let's get
right to the business at hand and that,
of course, is fall prevention. Why is this
an area of concern, regardless of age?
Falls are very costly to the health care
system and
fall prevention is proven to help people
reduce their fall risk, and so in the
last several years there has been much
more initiative put into fall prevention.
We, 75% of people ages 70 and above have
abnormal balance. About seven hundred and
fifty four million dollars were spent in
2015 in caring for fatal falls that lead
to, you know, very serious falls and so
it's an astronomical burden on the
healthcare systems and what's, from a
physical therapist's perspective,
falls are preventable. And you can
improve your balance, you can prepare to
reduce your fall risk, and so this
subject is so important, and you don't
have to be as I said the earlier
statistic 70 and above, and your balance
can be begin to decline pretty early on.
So let's talk a little bit about core
wellness, because I understand the core
is really the center of your balance.
Tell us what area of the body is the
core and why it is so related to balance.
Yeah, so the core is a four-sided
container. The top of it is your
diaphragm, which is your breathing muscle,
your bottom is your pelvic floor, which
is a very dynamic area of muscles, and
the front of this container is the
abdominal muscles going all the way deep
to one called the transversus abdominus.
Not to be technical, but very important
to understand that core goes all the way
in and then out, and then the back
muscles. So it's the top, the bottom, and
front and back is what makes the core, so
really all your trunk. And the reason
this is important, one of the number one
things you see happening as people age
and even in the young age now because of
the sitting we do and gravity, as we
start to fall forward -Right- and
especially in the elderly, and that is
largely due to core weakness. And the
muscles, some muscles are getting
shortened, some muscles are getting
weaker, and when you are losing good
posture and collapsing and your center
of mass is moving forward
you're much likely to fall because
you're not in the best alignment, which
is one of the key pieces to maintaining
good balance. And so core strength is
very critical and it's not
easy to learn how to strengthen your core,
especially not when you get older
because, you know, most often clients
will say to me, well I've never had a
strong core. -Right.- But the good news is
it's never too late. Core consists of
muscles, and just like I can take a 5
pound weight and strengthen my bicep
muscle, I can learn from a physical
therapist the right exercises to do to
strengthen my core, to help me stay more
upright, to help me resist better the
challenges that come from losing my
balance -Right- that begin at that most
important and dynamic part of our body.
Additionally, the glutes are not
technically part of the core. The glutes
are the muscles of the butt and they're
very important in balance control, and
they're really the stabilizers to the
core, so we cannot neglect discussing
core and glutes and that whole system of
muscles to help us move better, stay
stronger, more stable, and resist falls.
And that is a huge part of where it all
begins.
Now those statistics that you said
earlier were quite alarming, especially
when you think of the human factor, you
know, the families that are losing their
loved ones, etc. -Absolutely.- How can you
tell whether or not you are, or you or
a loved one might be at risk of falls?
Yeah, so when somebody comes into
physical therapy we ask a lot of
questions. It can be a little bit
overwhelming, but that's part of our job,
we're investigators. And so of course,
when, so, one is asking questions, second
is observation. The minute a client walks
into our clinic we can see if they're
stable or not. Right, if they're looking
to grab on to something, if they go to
get up from the chair and they've got to
really use their arms, immediately we
know that they're starting to lose some
of their stability. -Right.- But then their
history is huge. Have they had - are they
tripping?
Are they reducing their activity level
because they're less confident of their
ability to do better? Especially when it
gets darker earlier and it gets icy or
they are not gardening as much they give
you these cues that, because they have
to walk on the grass and the grass is
more difficult. So through observation
and through questions and through
medical history, because oftentimes the
medications you're on might have side
effects of loss of
balance -Mm-hmm.- And certain diagnoses. If
you have high blood pressure, low blood
pressure, if you're diabetic, you might
have neuropathy, so you have numbness in
your legs, so these are, there's a lot of
things that create balance problems, so
we're trying to find out through all
these pieces of the puzzle what is at
the root of it. So what are some of the
therapeutic interventions that can, you
can do in order to help
I guess strengthen this situation? Yeah,
absolutely, so there are some things you
can do alone at home, and part of
physical therapy is you get a homework
program that you need to do, but of
course when it comes to balance it's a
little tricky because we don't want you
to do unsafe things on your own. -Of
course.- And so we're gonna give you
things that might not be the most
challenging but they're still effective.
For example, four or five exercises
everybody should do, you always should do
them where you have some arm support to
be safe. And so marching in place, you
know, being comfortable marching when we
walk we stand on one leg with each step,
and yet, if you ask older folks to stand
on one leg they get very nervous. Well
what do you do when you're marching?
You're standing on one leg each time, so
marching is one. Another exercise we have
people do is just a kicking like a clock,
you know, nine o'clock, 12 o'clock, etc. You
know, with the leg, so again you're
practicing one-legged standing. Both
legs, front kick, side kick, back kick.
Front, side, back. One-legged standing.
Everybody should be able to stand on one
leg ten seconds. Yet so many people of
various age groups cannot, so that's
another one. Standing with your feet all
the way together that narrows your base
of support, and furthermore, standing with
one leg in front of the other, that's a
balanced thing that we work on so that's
something you can practice at home. Two
more that I'll throw in, always
practicing sit-to-stand
without using your arms, so finding a
good chair and trying to come out of it
and then coming back down is really a
good exercise to keep you strong. And
then sidestepping down your hallway to
keep some of the glute muscles nice and
strong,
and to work on upright, so these kinds of
things you can do at home. Now some of
these things might be a little bit
overwhelming for an older person, so what
would you suggest as far as that's concerned?
So, the cool thing in therapy is we can
that's our biggest job, is we adapt, so
same thing, you're marching a chair, okay?
You maybe don't go all the way up but
you just kind of lean into a standing
position. -Okay.- We do some leg kicks, okay?
You always can hold and do just a side
kick, instead of sidestepping, you do a
side kick. Go up on your tippy toes,
so again that's where seeing a therapist,
we can customize a program for the
client. But you're absolutely right, when
you're nervous about losing your balance
it's very hard to know where to start
and again why Medicare is covering this
part of treatment for the seniors,
because getting guided home exercise
program, guided treatments while you're
in PT is important to set the right
program for you, so that's a great
question. Generic exercises are not
suitable for everybody. And of course
it's important to think about this when
you're a little younger so you can, you
know, develop that core. Absolutely, and
that's the thing, that's the key of
prevention and so at our clinic we have
balance type work through all our
classes that we do for all our students
and part of our education to them is you
should never lose the ability to do this
and so keep building on it, and so, but
the good news always we want to
encourage clients is it's never too late.
I know that you're going to be coming to
the library to do some individual
screenings in April so let's talk a
little bit about what patrons can expect
to experience when they come for a
screen. Yeah, so we do these screenings
and they're really good because we use
two standardized tests to perform on
each participant and the data is
nationally collected and reliable, and so
these are used across the board. We use a
test called the timed-up-and-go, and we
use a Berg balance test that we do on
with clients, and they, the timed-up-and-go is a one-task test and it just looks
at your ability to walk a certain
distance and get up and back into a
chair in a certain time zone. So based on
how long it takes you to complete it, it
gives us an idea of your fall risk. The
Berg test is a multiple question test
and it looks at things like standing on
one leg, like stepping up, like reaching
out of your base of comfort, -Right.- like
closing your eyes, and so again basic
things that relate to balance that our
research investigated that give you
values, and based on your scores we can
identify if you're at a low, medium, or
high fall risk. So the data gives us a
certain number, and again, this is not our
own data, this is national accepted data
used universally, so it's robust, it's good
and really everybody, every person who's
at a risk for fall, which really I would
say age 60 and above, I would begin
getting a balance screen. Any therapy
clinic you go to should be able to offer
you some form of that, of a valid screen.
That is just so much embedded in our
training and you should get it checked
every month, every year. Now before people
come to your clinic should they get a
script from their doctor? Yeah, so with
Medicare it's always helpful to have a
script, but for a balance screening you
don't need a script. So just to be clear
what I would recommend, a screening is a
service that can be done in a short
amount of time and for that you don't
need a doctor's order. With Medicare,
though, although with many other payers you no longer need a doctor's order,
but we still do for Medicare in order to
treat. So if somebody wanted to come in
and get treatment for their balance then
we would need the doctor's order and
doctors are very in favor of all this so
you shouldn't have any trouble getting
your doctor, especially if they know
you've had tripping or close-to falls,
not even an actual fall, but signs of
potential fall, because prevention
universally is known to be very
important. Well this has been so
informative, thank you so much for being
with me today. Thank you so much for
having me, and I look forward to being at
the Library. For more information
regarding Diana's program
Don't Fall: Test Your Strength and
Balance or any upcoming Mount Prospect
Public Library event, contact the Library
at area code 847-253-5675 or visit our
website at www.mppl.org.
Every month, young adults gather here in the teen
space to enjoy a Friday Fun Day. Let's peek in on
an event in the series teaching patrons
how to produce decorative magnets and pins.
Mount Prospect Public Library's
teen space is a homey place where young
adults in grades 6 through 12 can gather
to study, socialize, and enjoy stress-free
events like Friday Fun Days. The Friday
Fun Days were started last summer with
the intention of offering more drop-in
programming, so programming for the teens
where they don't have to plan ahead and
register in advance.
And so the idea was just to give them a
little more freedom and then have the
programs be more sandbox like where they
can get creative and make something and
just enjoy themselves. The laid-back
drop-in aspect of this series invites
teens to come and go as they please,
participating as much or as little as
they like in the activity of the month.
It changes. Sometimes it's a craft,
sometimes it's, you know, open gaming,
something different. On this particular
Friday Fun Day, teens are trying their
hand at creating decorative magnets and pins.
We have a whole bunch of different
supplies that they can use, there's beads,
there's bottle caps, we have the button
maker out, which was always a favorite,
where they can decorate a picture and
then press it into a button, then attach
the magnet to the back. You're using
skills in order to create something and
you have that sense of accomplishment at
the end and I think that's a great
routine. There's a lot of stress with
school and work and everything else
going on, it's nice to just sit down, do
something, and then have this concrete
example of "You did that" at the end. The
goals for the program to get teens
involved in the library show them that
they can show up and we have things for
them to do and then, you know, encourage a
sense of community amongst the teens.
They're all here and they all get
involved in this, they start talking to
each other and start building more of a
community feeling between not just me
and the teens or the library and the
teens, but all of the teens together in
the teen space. Earlier in this program
we absorb the energy and enthusiasm of
MPPL FanFest 2019, a fun-filled event
where Library staff members joined
patrons of all ages in displaying their
love of literature and pop culture. Let's
once again check in with head of
Community Services,
Jennifer Amling, to find out what she
recommends as her best book pick from
the Adult Services Department.
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero. In 1977 in the small
mining town of Blyton Hills, Oregon, four
teens form the Blyton Summer Detective
Club and become famous for unmasking the
sleepy lake monster who has been
terrorizing the area - one Thomas X.
Wickley, a would-be thief in costume.
Sound familiar? If you watch Scooby-Doo
at all, it should. However, the teens, Peter,
Kerri, Andrea ("Andy") and Nate all go their
separate ways, but are haunted by
nightmares from their experiences that
night. Several years later the teens
return to Blyton Hills. The old mining
town where they grew up has gone
downhill in the years they've been gone.
They reconnect with an Air Force captain
who had helped them in the past and now
runs the local junkyard. He supplies them
with the tools and weapons they may need
and off they go to face the monsters of
their nightmares. Think of a grown-up
Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys adventure that has
channeled some of Lovecraft's Cthulhu
monster madness and added a dash of
witchcraft, humor, and romance.
Recommended for those who don't mind a
little horror and gore with their mystery reading.
Recommendations from the
Adult Services Department this month
feature tales of satirical horror. John
dies At the End by David Wong is the
story of two beer-drinking friends who
think something horrific is going on in
their Midwestern town. In A Dirty Job by
Christopher Moore, a neurotic and anxious
hypochondriac confronts the challenges
of being a widower and a single parent
when his wife dies of a freak medical
condition on the day their daughter is
born. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by
Seth Graham Smith is set in a quiet
English village where a mysterious plague
has fallen and the dead are returning to
life. In Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee
Martinez, a werewolf and a vampire hired
to eliminate a restaurant's zombie
problem find themselves tackling a much
stickier adversary. And in Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes
Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry
Pratchett, an end-of-the-world prediction
is met with a few problems that arise to
complicate matters. Recommendations from
the Youth Services Department this month
highlight mythological fiction.
In Loki's Wolves by K.L. Armstrong, the
descendants of two very different gods
must combine forces to fight monsters
who threaten an apocalypse.
Charlie Hernandez and the League of
Shadows by Ryan Calejo tells the tale of
a middle schooler who realizes the
Hispanic folklore he heard as a child is
true when he grows horns and feathers
while at the heart of a battle to save
the world.
In Aru Shah and the End of Time by
Roshani Chokshi, a 12 year old
dares to prove an ancient lamp is cursed
and inadvertently frees a demon. Xander
and the Lost Island of Monsters by
Margaret Dilloway centers on two best
friends who read a comic book and are
thrust into a samurai warrior adventure
in which one must use inherited powers
to save his father. And in The Colossus
Rises by Peter Lerangis, four teens
begin a quest to find seven pieces of
Atlantis's power hidden long ago, each
having the ability to save them from
certain death.
Finally, here's Youth Programming
Coordinator Erin Emerick with her best
book pick from this department. In The
Serpent's Secret by Sayantani Dasgupta,
Kiranmala comes home from school on her
12th birthday to discover that her world
has been turned upside down. Her parents
have disappeared from their New Jersey
home, there are two princes on flying
horses battling a demon on her front
lawn, and all those stories her parents
have always told her about being an
Indian princess from another dimension -
turns out they were all true. In order to
bring her parents back
Kiranmala and the two princes must
travel to the kingdom beyond. There Kiranmala
uncovers surprising facts in her
family tree and comes into her own as a
strong young woman. What sets this novel
apart from the rest is the author's
playful tone. I mean, how would you react
if you're living a normal boring life
and then all of a sudden you're meeting
talking birds and half-demons?
Fans of Rick Riordan will love
this action-packed new series full of
Indian mythology. Taking in the enormous
selection of books here in the Youth
Services Department, it might be
difficult to choose a favorite. This is,
however, the task we gave local school
principals. The result: A two-evening event
highlighting an assortment of authors
and themes. Let's find out what happens
when principals read at MPPL.
A recurring event so popular it
encompasses two separate evenings,
Principles Read at MPPL gives local
elementary school students a chance to
experience educational leaders outside
the academic norm. We're very excited to
be featuring principles from across
Mount Prospect. They will be coming to
the Library to read one of their
favorite books, which they've chosen, and
they'll be reading it to a lot of their
students and students from across the
town. Elementary School Liaison Carol
Capra helps to facilitate this, the first
session of the 2019 Principals Read at
MPPL event. Tonight we have two District
26 schools, Indian Grove and Euclid. Then
we have two District 59 schools,
Robert Frost and Forest View, and then we
have a District 21 school, Robert Frost.
More than 100 patrons, including students
in preschool through fifth grade and
their parents, listen to the animated
versions of five carefully chosen
picture books. I chose the book The Three
Questions, and this book talks about the
three most important questions we can
ask in our lives. And nowadays I feel
like we need to be a little bit more
conscious about not so much the answers
that we seek, but the questions that we
ask, and feel more comfortable about
asking questions and also being the
recipient of questions. These three
questions really make us think more
critically and help our students to
really understand what their purpose is
and where they're headed in their future.
The book that I brought is called Big
Bear Hug and it is by Nicholas Oldland, who
is a Canadian author, and the reason why
I picked it is because I'm from Canada,
and so it's near and dear to my heart, 
and he's actually from my hometown. And
it's about kindness and it's about
nature, things that I care very much
about. It's a very simple book, but it's
got a great message. I picked the
book I Want To Go Home, and I chose it
because it had a fun flair to it with its,
with the child writing letters to his
parents, who are out of town, about why he
doesn't want to be at grandma grandpa's,
and how he shifts his thinking the more
he has time to enjoy with his
grandparents. And it's fun to see the
back-and-forth letter-writing between
the parents and the child, I thought that
was a fun way to show other kids. I
brought one of my favorites, it's called
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,
and I love it for a lot of reasons. I
mean, it's a great teaching tool to teach
point of view to kids but the main
reason is because it's just hilarious.
It's so funny,
and it makes me laugh and I know it
makes the kids laugh as well.
David Biedrzycki visited our school this
year as an author, so we've been trying
to push authors to come visit our school
as much as we can, the kids love hearing
about it. And he also illustrates a lot
of his own books so I thought it was a
timely book just because of the season,
but also really because this author was
phenomenal. It's so exciting to see the
kids and their expressions when they see
their principal, "Wait they're not at
school, they're at the library!" and it's
just wonderful to see that connection. It
gets them with their families to the
Library and to enjoy all the wonderful
things we have here at the Library. It is
one of my most favorite events. I really
enjoy coming out here into the community
and then sharing some of my favorite
books, and I really appreciate what the
Library does by providing the book to
our library so that we can enjoy it as
well. I think it's so fun for the kids to
come out and see their principals
reading a book, promoting literacy, having
fun in an environment that's low-key.
It's also fun to get to see the other
principals, sometimes we get locked up
and we don't get to get out and see each
other so, that's kind of fun as well.
I've done it every year they've offered
it, since I've been in the area, and I
think it's fantastic. Brings families
together, brings the love of reading to
everyone and it's just a fun way for
kids to see their principals in a
different way. I love it, I'm a huge
library fan myself and it just makes me
really happy to be here and be able to
support the Library, and because I know
the Library supports our kids it's a
great partnership. I grew up in Mount
Prospect so I remember this library when
it wasn't here, the original library, and
it was so small, and just to see what
it's grown into in terms of how the kids
love coming here, it's a real integral
part of Mount Prospect because we have so
many different school districts in the
village, it's nice that even though we're
at the north end of the village a lot of
our students love coming down here and
participating in the programs. Our goals
are to reach our community, all parts of
our community. These schools are
representative of all parts of town. We
hope all families from across the whole
town come and enjoy the fun. Principals
Read at MPPL is just one example of
the many entertaining informational and
educational events featured here at the
Mount Prospect Public Library every
month. Don't miss any library programs
that you'd like to experience. Here's a
list of events scheduled in March and
April. Reservations are strongly recommended.
For more information regarding these
events, call area code
847-253-5675 or visit
our website at www.mppl.org.
You'll also find a listing and description
of all upcoming Mount
Prospect Public Library events in your
library newsletter, Preview. The costumes
on display here at Mount Prospect Public
Library's FanFest 2019 represent the
diverse palates of those who savor the
many aspects of popular culture. With
this in mind, our Library Life camera
today asks the question: Who is your
favorite book, movie, or comic strip
character, and why? Here are some
responses. Doctor Strange, he seems to
have abilities that no one else had. Kind
of a unique character in the Marvel
Universe.
I'd say Wolverine because he's immortal
and he, he's overall a cool
character. That would be Elsa, she is a
character in the Disney movie. Frozen. I
have four little granddaughters, and so
everything in our house is pink and
Frozen at the moment. That wraps up this
edition of "Library Life." For more
information on any of the Mount Prospect
Public Library's services and events
highlighted here call area code 847-253-5675,
or visit our website at www.mppl.org.
