In an effort to get neighborhood children to read over the summer, New York librarian Susan Scatena offers up incentives. Cookies? Cupcakes? Only if you're talking amateur hour. Scatena becomes the Steve Irwin of the library set and involves animals.
According to Shine, in 2007, she dressed in bunny pajamas and read a book to a live rabbit. For the 2009 challenge, she dressed like a chicken and performed "The Chicken Dance" while holding a live chicken. She kissed a frog named Pee Wee for 2011's summer challenge (evoking "The Frog Prince" fairy tale), while 2012 saw a 14-foot python named Twinkie draped over her shoulders.
This year it involved reading the children's book "There's an Alligator Under My Bed" by Mercer Mayer to a packed library--and to an accompanying alligator named Wally.
Wally's enjoying the book more than the kid in the background.
photo: Yahoo Shine
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