Carol Wiebe

I drew a lot of cartoons as a kid. As a teen, I wanted to attend an art school where cartooning was taught, but my parents thought a University education was more important. Three degrees and decades of work in libraries and schools later, I still enjoy cartooning. That is why something like this . . . . . Whirling Wings turns into that . . . It Won’t Bug Me If You Love Me #school #CWWOL20120507b #CWWOL20120507a #CWWOL20120507 #bugme #teaching #bugs #love #library #cartoons #

. Like you, I have many different sides to my personality. They run the whole scale, from deeply looking into your eyes serious, to gasping with laughter silly. I don’t think I have to explain where this image falls on that scale. The pic was taken at a special needs school, where I teach READING IS FUN to four and five year olds. That is, I tell stories, sing, read poems, have conversations about what we are wearing and where we have wounds (also known as ow-ies or boo-boos)

I decided to go green with the library bags I hand out to students this year. Let me explain. As a resource teacher at a small, special needs school, I have the enviable job of hosting story times with students every week. Many of you would no doubt find it amusing to see me singing, dancing, waving my arms (I gesture expansively), changing facial expressions as fast as clouds morph into different shapes (I speak animatedly), and having conversations with a fairly large muppe