PHOTO GALLERY: Daniel Boone Regional Library offers Bookmobile service to towns in Boone and Callaway counties
May 2, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT
The Daniel Boone Regional Library's Bookmobile stays in a town for citizens to visit and choose reading material to check out. Bookmobile Jr. visits area day cares and schools as part of an effort to increase early childhood literacy.
Kylie Bias and Elizabeth Walther sing a song to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus” aboard Bookmobile Jr. on a visit to the Little Flowers School & Day Care in New Bloomfield on April 6. Each visit starts with the song to create a routine for the children.
| Leah Beane
A clock on the Bookmobile wall ticks away the hours that the mobile library spends in Hallsville on April 12. From about 1:30 until 7 p.m., the Bookmobile stays in a town for citizens to visit and choose reading material to check out.
| Leah Beane
Rylea Schlotter, left, Kylie Bias, and Christian Alberts look through books as Little Flowers School and Day Care owner Lana Lucas hands a book to Bookmobile Jr. driver Jim Hefley during visit to the day care in New Bloomfield on April 6. The children can check out books on their own library cards to take home or choose books to keep checked out at the day care until the next visit.
| Leah Beane
Rawley Stevens and Jonathon Hasty run out of the Bookmobile Jr. and into the Little Flowers School & Day Care in New Bloomfield on April 6. Bookmobile Jr. is a service offered by the Daniel Boone Regional Library as part of an effort to increase early childhood literacy.
| Leah Beane
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