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If it's too loud, you're too old

June 29, 2018

Ryan OConnell

Valerie O'Connell reads to a group of excited youngsters at Ekalaka Public Library last Thursday.

During the Thursday, June 21 Reading Rocks summer session, kids entered as readers and left as marchers. Valerie O'Connell read "Little Pig Joins the Band" to the six young musicians.

"Little Pig Joins the Band" is about Jacob, a pig trying to join a marching band. He attempts drums, tubas, trumpets and trombones but cannot play any because he is too small.

The kids thought about times when they were to small to do things like watch PG-13 movies, sort cows, drive a car and drive a car through a river.

Eventually, Jacob the pig, and the marching band, realize he is not too small to be thei...

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