Photo by Jim Cullen
What do books and an old piano have in common? Not much, unless that piano is in the Tobias Elementary School library. As the school year came to a close, the specially painted (bright yellow with teal blue accents...plus polka dots) piano was autographed by an equally special student, Tobias 4th-grader Shelby Passmore. Shelby was the solo winner in librarian Karen Kessel’s “Boogie With Books” contest, in which a student had to read a book, write a ditty or jingle about it, then play it for her (or his) class. The award? Getting to autograph the piano, which Shelby did after reading Tony Abbott’s book, “Underworlds: The Battle Begins.”
