Case Study No. 1278: Miss Devine, the Librarian Who Chewed on a Word

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I Know a Librarian Who Chewed on a Word
Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton, Author
Herb Leonhard, Illustrator
Pelican Publishing
2012
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A most exciting word has the whole library abuzz!

What combination of letters could possibly drive a person to do such absurd things?

Fascinated children look on as Miss Divine

Dines on a table
Chomps down a chair
And savors a shelf ...

All to chase down a single word!

Written in the style of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," this book reveals the only verb that could make a librarian practically purr, and that word is ...

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From amazon.com:

All librarians love books, but have you ever met one who just ate them up . . . literally? Miss Devine does. In this adaptation of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," one Dewey Decimal diva has gone on a most unusual eating binge. From chomping down the story-hour chair to savoring the nonfiction shelf, Miss Devine is trying to chase down one particularly perfect word. As the story, told by a wide-eyed witness, gets more outlandish, the tension builds. Children all over the library are dying to know: What combination of letters could have possibly started this absurdly all-consuming spree?

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From pelicanpub.com:

I KNOW A LIBRARIAN
WHO CHEWED ON A WORD

By Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton
Illustrated by Herb Leonhard

It's been said that librarians take their love of books to the extreme. In this story, Miss Devine, a bun-wearing bibliophile, has a passion for literacy that reaches new heights. She has actually chewed on a word, claims one small witness to this outrageous event. And as the children gossip in a suspenseful build up, dying to know which word set off this smorgasbord, we discover that Miss Devine has munched her way through the whole library. In the manner of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," she has downed a book shelf, table, chair, cart, and a copy of Peter Pan trying to chase down this savory assemblage of letters. What is that word?

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From herbleonhard.com:

I know a librarian who swallowed a book.
The red one about old Captain Hook!
She swallowed the book to embrace the word.
She practically purred when she ate that fine word.
How absurd!

I know a librarian who ate a book-cart.
Munching and crunching every last part!
She swallowed the cart to hold the book.
She swallowed the book to embrace the word.
She practically purred when she ate that fine word.
How absurd!

I know a librarian who chomped down a chair.
The story hour chair that was sitting right there!
She swallowed the chair to cushion the cart.
She swallowed the cart to hold the book.
She swallowed the book to embrace the word.
She practically purred when she ate that fine word.
How absurd!

Then she chomped and chewed,
And we all yaw-whooooooed.
Watch out! Watch out!
She's picking up speed!
Then out popped the word.