This was published in a slightly different form in the Star News last week:
My son is in a rap class with a few other five-to-nine year olds. They meet at the Myrtle Grove library once a week to write lyrics around a particular theme, such as vegetables, to perform their raps on a microphone, maybe do a little dancing. Their teacher is goofball genius Scooter Hayes, AKA Melvil Dewey the rapping librarian. Maybe you’ve heard of him. You’re kids have. They love him and sing his songs. Scooter visits school libraries all over Wilmington and raps infectiously about the Dewey Decimal system, library cards, bookmobiles. Continue reading