Dial A Story
From the
Mid Mississippi Regional Library
“Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear”
by N. M. Bodecker

“Hurry, Hurry, Mary dear, fall is over, winter’s here.  Not a moment to be lost, in a minute we get frost!  In an hour we get snow! Drifts like houses! Ten below! “ So begins this hilarious nonsense rhyme by a much-loved writer who won wide critical acclaim and a devoted audience during his lifetime. Illuminated by Bodecker’s rare imagination, his glorious sense of the absurd, and his firsthand knowledge of country living, all beautifully matched by Erik Blegvad’s wondrous watercolor paintings, this is a book to delight young readers and their elders again and again.  Children can dial 289-8069 to hear this free story over the telephone.  Dial-a-story is a service of the Attala County Library provided by the Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System and an LSTA grant from the Mississippi Library Commission.