NewsFebruary 19, 2020
Moments from the "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Renee Jackson, with the library's youth service staff, said the event regularly takes places at 11 a.m. Wednesdays. “We’re hoping, of course, a love for books,” Jackson said about what is desired for people to take away from the experience. “We're wanting them also to see the value of all that playtime together. Not just sitting there with them, but singing songs to them and reading books to them. But also fingerplays and things."
Jan Rigdon of Cape Girardeau and her granddaughter Marianne Uzoaru, 2, of Cape Girardeau, share a moment during a "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Renee Jackson, with the library's youth service staff, said the event regularly takes places at 11 a.m. Wednesdays. "We're hoping, of course, a love for books," Jackson said about what is desired for people to take away from the experience. "We're wanting them also to see the value of all that playtime together. Not just sitting there with them, but singing songs to them and reading books to them. But also fingerplays and things."
Jan Rigdon of Cape Girardeau and her granddaughter Marianne Uzoaru, 2, of Cape Girardeau, share a moment during a "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Renee Jackson, with the library's youth service staff, said the event regularly takes places at 11 a.m. Wednesdays. "We're hoping, of course, a love for books," Jackson said about what is desired for people to take away from the experience. "We're wanting them also to see the value of all that playtime together. Not just sitting there with them, but singing songs to them and reading books to them. But also fingerplays and things."
Jan Rigdon of Cape Girardeau pokes the nose of her granddaughter Marianne Uzoaru, 2, of Cape Girardeau, during a "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. 
Jan Rigdon of Cape Girardeau pokes the nose of her granddaughter Marianne Uzoaru, 2, of Cape Girardeau, during a "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. 
Henry Johnson (second child from left), 14 months, yawns while sitting on the lap of his mother Jennifer Layton Johnson, of St. Louis and in Cape Girardeau visiting her parents, during a "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Also seen are Chadene Krome, of Anchorage, Alaska, and temporarily living in Cape Girardeau, and her grandson James Krome-Guerrero, 16 months, of Cape Girardeau, (left pair) and Yolanda Rangel of Cape Girardeau and her children Mateo Rangel, 7 months, and Elias Rangel, 2.
Henry Johnson (second child from left), 14 months, yawns while sitting on the lap of his mother Jennifer Layton Johnson, of St. Louis and in Cape Girardeau visiting her parents, during a "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Also seen are Chadene Krome, of Anchorage, Alaska, and temporarily living in Cape Girardeau, and her grandson James Krome-Guerrero, 16 months, of Cape Girardeau, (left pair) and Yolanda Rangel of Cape Girardeau and her children Mateo Rangel, 7 months, and Elias Rangel, 2.
Yolanda Rangel of Cape Girardeau (right) and her children Mateo Rangel, 7 months, and Elias Rangel, 2, take part in a "BabyBook" event with Chadene Krome, of Anchorage, Alaska, and temporarily living in Cape Girardeau, and her grandson James Krome-Guerrero, 16 months, of Cape Girardeau, (left pair), Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library.
Yolanda Rangel of Cape Girardeau (right) and her children Mateo Rangel, 7 months, and Elias Rangel, 2, take part in a "BabyBook" event with Chadene Krome, of Anchorage, Alaska, and temporarily living in Cape Girardeau, and her grandson James Krome-Guerrero, 16 months, of Cape Girardeau, (left pair), Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library.
Chadene Krome, of Anchorage, Alaska, and temporarily living in Cape Girardeau, and her grandson James Krome-Guerrero, 16 months, of Cape Girardeau, take part in a "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. 
Chadene Krome, of Anchorage, Alaska, and temporarily living in Cape Girardeau, and her grandson James Krome-Guerrero, 16 months, of Cape Girardeau, take part in a "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. 
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Moments from the "BabyBook" event Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Renee Jackson, with the library's youth service staff, said the event regularly takes places at 11 a.m. Wednesdays. “We’re hoping, of course, a love for books,” Jackson said about what is desired for people to take away from the experience. “We're wanting them also to see the value of all that playtime together. Not just sitting there with them, but singing songs to them and reading books to them. But also fingerplays and things."

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