Hello, Could you please forward this information along when you get a chance? *Call for Entries: Animal Tales * Are you an animal lover? Got a great story to share about your pet or any animal, the outdoors or wildlife? As part of The Big Read celebration of Jack London's *The Call of the Wild*, Dearborn Public Library is sending out a call for short stories, poems or essays about animals, people's pets, the outdoors or wildlife. Email your original story, poem or essay of 1-4 pages to hfischer@ci.dearborn.mi.us. It can be a little shorter or longer if that's what it takes to tell the tale! The stories can be real or fictional. This program is open to anyone (all ages). *The entry deadline has been extended to March 1, 2014.* We hope to compile selected stories and publish them in book format as "Call of the Wild Dearborn: Animal Tales." Copies will be available for checkout at Dearborn Public Library or for purchase via dearbornlibrary.org. Proceeds will benefit Dearborn Public Library. Read the submission guidelines at http://bigreaddearborn.org/animal-tales/. A flyer is available there too (attached). Information is also on our library website at http://dearbornlibrary.org/and on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/dearbornpubliclibrary. A big thank you to our Big Read partners and sponsors: http://bigreaddearborn.org/partners. Look forward to reading your stories! Thank you, Henry Henry Fischer Adult Services Librarian Dearborn Public Library 16301 Michigan Ave. Dearborn, MI 48126 Phone: (313) 943-2341 Fax: (313) 943-2853 hfischer@ci.dearborn.mi.us www.dearbornlibrary.org www.facebook.com/dearbornpubliclibrary The Big Read is coming to Dearborn! Do you hear the Call? Fun-filled activities and events centered on Jack London's *The Call of the Wild* will take place in and around Dearborn in March through May 2014. The adventure - *Call of the Wild: EmBARKING on Discovery - *begins with a BIG kickoff at The Henry Ford in Anderson Theater on Saturday, March 8, 2014, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sign up for email updates at www.bigreaddearborn.org! Another date to save is Saturday, April 26, 1-3 p.m. That's when George Guidall, renowned actor and audiobook narrator, will give a presentation on "The Art and Artifice of Audiobook Narration," and he will do a dramatic reading from *The Call of the Wild*. This event will take place in the auditorium at Henry Ford Centennial Library. *The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. The program is designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment.*