Love these compilations of Unshelved. ( )

How will the Mallville Public Library deal with free range children, persistent salespeople and quirky demanding customers? With quirky library employees making snappy comebacks, of course. And how will the quirky employees deal with the crowds and excitement at big conferences put on by the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association? And most importantly, will a borrowed goat from the animal shelter really promote early literacy during storytime? As all good readers and librarians know, the answers are in the book.

LOL. This is a book that I could really get my incisors into! It’s just like the place I work, well, except for the person shelving books wearing a beaver costume. On the other hand long time readers of the comic strip know that the costume really started out as a woodchuck costume. A woodchuck is a groundhog and therefore a ground squirrel, and there are stories of someone who does, occasionally put on a squirrel mask at work. ( )

Unshelved is always wonderful, and this contains great bonuses like the BEA strips. It also marks the beginning of color strips. ( )