Animal Story Time is back — this time with a live snake! Join Sarah Glesner of Sacred Serpents for story time at Zenith Bookstore. Sarah will be reading from Verdi by Janell Cannon.
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The book tells the story of Young Verdi, who doesn’t want to grow up big and green. He likes his bright yellow skin and sporty stripes. Besides, all the green snakes he meets are lazy, boring, and rude. When Verdi finds a pale green stripe stretching along his whole body, he tries every trick he can think of to get rid of it – and ends up in a heap of trouble. Despite his efforts, Verdi turns green, but to his delight, he discovers that being green doesn’t mean he has to stop being himself.

“Cannon is on a roll, her gift for creating memorable characters and scenes is on glorious display in this tale of a feisty python hatchling.”–Publishers Weekly

Reader Sarah Glesner is passionate about snakes, turtles, and all things reptilian and amphibian. Her organization Sacred Serpents is meant to “provide gentle experiences for people who want to encounter these animals, whether they have a fear or are kind of nervous about them.”