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A portable library

Inside Bookmobile, Jr. Otter Bowman helps a young client.
Scarlett Robertson
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KBIA
Inside Bookmobile, Jr. Otter Bowman helps a young client.

This week: we visit a bookmobile that's just for kids and talk to a singer from Madagascar with a Missouri connection.

Every Tuesday afternoon a brightly colored truck carrying about 1500 books can be found in different areas of Columbia in the hopes of targeting younger readers who might not be able to make it to the library.

 

Starting out in the music business can be tough—long nights of writing, perfecting and performing. Now imagine going to another country and doing it. Aina  Cook, a singer from Madagascar, talked to KBIA's Nick Gass about her life as a performer and a student in the United States.

Scarlett Robertson joined KBIA as a producer in February 2011. She studied psychology at Lake Forest College and holds a masters degree in journalism from Syracuse University. Scarlett began her professional career in psychology, jumped to magazines and then came to her senses and shifted to public radio. She has contributed to NPR member stations WAER in Syracuse, KUT in Austin and Chicago’s WBEZ.