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From the Ted Talk by Storybook Maze: A street librarian's quest to bring books to everyone

Unscramble the Blue Letters


One of the most popular items in their library wasn't really a book at all, but something that the librarians pieced together, a scrapbook from the most popular titles. It contained qiult patterns, the latest fsahoin cigppnlis, a recipe for opossum soup and children’s stories. The Pack Horse librarians embodied the steret hood librarian spirit by creating custom books that met their community's needs.

Librarians haven't just relied on hboscraek either. We've eoylepmd elephants in the Elephant Mobile Library, ridden camels in Kenya to deevilr books to nomadic tribes, and led dogs through the mountains of northern California. From bibliobikes in Augusta, Georgia, to Biblioburro in Colombia, libraries have taken diverse fomrs and adjusted to different cultures and landscapes. In China, there's a floating library made from cnreoetvd fihnisg baots that serves as an island's first public library.

Open Cloze


One of the most popular items in their library wasn't really a book at all, but something that the librarians pieced together, a scrapbook from the most popular titles. It contained _____ patterns, the latest _______ _________, a recipe for opossum soup and children’s stories. The Pack Horse librarians embodied the ______ hood librarian spirit by creating custom books that met their community's needs.

Librarians haven't just relied on _________ either. We've ________ elephants in the Elephant Mobile Library, ridden camels in Kenya to _______ books to nomadic tribes, and led dogs through the mountains of northern California. From bibliobikes in Augusta, Georgia, to Biblioburro in Colombia, libraries have taken diverse _____ and adjusted to different cultures and landscapes. In China, there's a floating library made from _________ _______ _____ that serves as an island's first public library.

Solution


  1. fishing
  2. clippings
  3. fashion
  4. employed
  5. deliver
  6. boats
  7. converted
  8. horseback
  9. street
  10. forms
  11. quilt

Original Text


One of the most popular items in their library wasn't really a book at all, but something that the librarians pieced together, a scrapbook from the most popular titles. It contained quilt patterns, the latest fashion clippings, a recipe for opossum soup and children’s stories. The Pack Horse librarians embodied the street hood librarian spirit by creating custom books that met their community's needs.

Librarians haven't just relied on horseback either. We've employed elephants in the Elephant Mobile Library, ridden camels in Kenya to deliver books to nomadic tribes, and led dogs through the mountains of northern California. From bibliobikes in Augusta, Georgia, to Biblioburro in Colombia, libraries have taken diverse forms and adjusted to different cultures and landscapes. In China, there's a floating library made from converted fishing boats that serves as an island's first public library.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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facing hardships 2
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black communities 2
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Important Words


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  8. california
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  10. china
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  12. colombia
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  18. deliver
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  21. elephant
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  23. embodied
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  28. forms
  29. georgia
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  34. kenya
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  42. met
  43. mobile
  44. mountains
  45. nomadic
  46. northern
  47. opossum
  48. pack
  49. patterns
  50. pieced
  51. popular
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  53. quilt
  54. recipe
  55. relied
  56. ridden
  57. scrapbook
  58. serves
  59. soup
  60. spirit
  61. stories
  62. street
  63. titles
  64. tribes