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Mother Earth gives advice at library
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .Guests to the Austintown library's July 19 Mother Earth storytime smiled widely and showed off their complimentary magnets with Mother Earth herself, Peg Flynn (rear center).
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .On July 19, Green Team environmental educator Peg Flynn (center) visited the Austintown library to ask her guests to be kind to Mother Earth. While reading Schim Schimmel's book "Dear Children of the Earth" as Mother Earth, Flynn explained that even though the world is big, it can still feel when humans harm its natural beauty.
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .Storytime guest Nick Tibolla showed off the magnet that he planned to stick to his parent's refrigerator to remind them to recycle.
By SARAH FOOR
Wearing a sunny yellow crown and a green and blue earth poncho, Green Team environmental educator Peg Flynn visited the Austintown library dressed as Mother Earth on July 19.
Flynn shared the story “Dear Children of the Earth” with a group of young guests in Austintown. Schim Schimmel’s book served as a reminder of the responsibility that humans have to take care of the environment. The book attests, “I am more than a planet — I am also your home.”
Flynn taught this lesson to her guests by pointing out some of the animals illustrated in “Dear Children of the Earth,” which included majestic lions, leopards, elephants and giraffes.
“These are probably some of your favorite animals. Can you even imagine how different the world would be without them?” Flynn asked the group.
After her story, Mother Earth asked her guests to make Earth Day every day and to consider recycling at home.
To thank her guests for hearing her message, Flynn provided free recycled paper coloring books and sun magnets made from repurposed paper and bottle caps.
“In a unique way, our story time fits in with the library’s ‘One World, Many Stories’ theme for their summer reading program. We all have the same home and we need to protect it.”