WEDNESDAY, July 27th at 7pm: OLLIE'S ODYSSEY Concludes

IT'S BIG-TASTIC!  It's the final confrontation - It's Junks versus Creeps - It's good versus . . . not-so-good.  It is definitely love and loyalty versus bitterness and pain.  Whatever else it might be, it is the exciting conclusion of William Joyce's deceptive and delightful adventure OLLIE'S ODYSSEY.

Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic!

Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.
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WEDNESDAY, July 20th at 7pm: More from OLLIE'S ODYSSEY

They seem to have found each other once more - Billy and Ollie.  But not quite yet!  There a lot of odyssey left in this wonderful book by William Joyce.

It seems almost hopeless!  Yet Ollie makes some remarkable new friends, and discovers that there is more than stuffing inside him - his bell heart possesses undiscovered power.

The race is on, and the battle is about to begin.  Love and loyalty against hate and bitterness.  Don't miss the this exciting episode of this amazing adventure.

Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic!

Caledonia Skytower presents, live in voice.
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WEDNESDAY, July 13th at 7pm: OLLIE'S ODYSSEY Continues

Illustration from OLLIE'S ODYSSEY
by William Joyce

Ollie, Billy's favorite toy, has been toy-napped by the evil Zozo!

But Billy is determined to find him, just as Ollie is determined to be reunited with his boy.  One autumn night they search for each other, and for the true meaning of "belonging" in William Joyce's classic take on the toys-come-to-life story.

Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic.

Caledonia Skytower presents another episode, live in voice.
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WEDNESDAY, June 6th at 7pm: OLLIE'S ODYSSEY Continues

An epic journey of ten blocks, continues with Caledonia:

In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World.Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.”

But there are villains in the Toy World, and Zozo, the clown king, is the most feared. He and his toy henchman (the Creeps) have sworn to steal and imprison favorite toys until they forget their children and become forever lost.

When Ollie is toy-napped, Billy must rescue his beloved favorite from Zozo’s subterranean lair in the old Carnival Place, past the park, through the woods, and into the night.

Live in voice.
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WEDNESDAY, June 29th at 7pm: OLLIE'S ODYSSEY

Sometimes, in searching for one book you discover another, and realize it is a treasure.  Caledonia happened on this book while searching through the works of William Joyce for Magicland, and fell in love.  Now, you can too, and it will be totally "YUM."

In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World.Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.”

But there are villains in the Toy World, and Zozo, the clown king, is the most feared. He and his toy henchman (the Creeps) have sworn to steal and imprison favorite toys until they forget their children and become forever lost.

When Ollie is toy-napped, Billy must rescue his beloved favorite from Zozo’s subterranean lair in the old Carnival Place, past the park, through the woods, and into the night.

Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic.

Caledonia Skytower begins William Joyce's adventure, live in voice.
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SUNDAY, June 19th: Another Storied Sunday

@1:30pm ~ TEA TIME with The Jungle Book

Bryn Taleweaver continues to share selections from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book."

Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his novels The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.

In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "frog", describing his lack of fur. Kipling made up the name, and it "does not mean 'frog' in any language other than the language of the forest."

Kipling stated that the first syllable of "Mowgli" should rhyme with "cow" and is pronounced this way in Britain and some European countries, while in the United States it is almost always pronounced to rhyme with "go".

Presented live in voice.
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@6pm ~ MAGICLAND STORYTIME: Ollie's Odyssey Continues


Caledonia continues William Joyce's Ollie's Odyssey at the Golden Horseshoe at Magicland Park.

 In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World. Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.” Presented Live in voice.

Presented live in voice.

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SUNDAY, May 29th: TERRIFIC TALES

@ 1:30pm Tea Time at Baker Street concludes:
The last event by Seanchai Library at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 will conclude Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Second Stain

Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, come to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from Hope's dispatch box, which he kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work. If divulged, this document could bring about very dire consequences for all Europe, even war. They are loath to tell Holmes at first the exact nature of the document's contents, but when Holmes declines to take on their case, they tell him that it was a rather injudicious letter from a foreign potentate.

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@ 6pm Magicland Storytime: More from the Art and Magic of William Joyce

Caledonia shares "A Day with Wilbur Robinson" and continues "Ollie's Odyssey" :
In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World. Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.”

But there are villains in the Toy World, and Zozo, the clown king, is the most feared. He and his toy henchman (the Creeps) have sworn to steal and imprison favorite toys until they forget their children and become forever lost.

When Ollie is toynapped, Billy must rescue his beloved favorite from Zozo’s subterranean lair in the old Carnival Place, past the park, through the woods, and into the night.
Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic 

Presented live in voice. 
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