CHARLIE’S HEROES, an original puppet show given by the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, will be performing at the library (downstairs in the children’s department) this TUESDAY, August 4th, at 1:00pm.

This may be the perfect opportunity to answer definitively:

If we prick the puppets, will they bleed?
If we tickle them, will they laugh?
If we poison them, will they die?
If we wrong them, will they seek revenge?
— very loose, personal translation from Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice”