Duke Lemur Center Reads Mister Lemur at the Duke Lemur Center

Come to the Duke Lemur Center for a fun reading of Mister Lemur Books! Great fun for kids and adults! Special guest, Maky the Mascot Ringtailed lemur will be there for photos. Oct 19th, the publisher of the award-winning "Mister Lemur" books will donate $5 for each book sold to the Duke Lemur Center's conservation projects. Mister Lemur stories wrap concepts from science, math and geography in a fun, rhyming context. They are written by Stanford-educated authors Hans and Jen Hartvickson, who fell in love with lemurs on a 2006 trip to Madagascar. Hans and Jen now travel the country full-time helping elementary students become excited about reading, writing and lemurs!· Mister Lemur¿s Train of Thought, a 151 page collection of Shel Silverstein-esque rhymes, won the gold medal for children¿s poetry in the 2011 Moonbeam Awards. It is ideal for grades two through five. · It Will Take a Lot of Us to Lift a Hippopotamus features Mister Lemur, Silky and their friends learning a humorous lesson about teamwork while trying to rescue a hippo on a safari. ¿Hippo¿ is well-suited to students in grade two and below. · Get a jump on your Christmas shopping with The Santa Claus Alarm, by Mister Lemur¿s little sister ¿Lemur Pup.¿ The book features an adorable female hero in her quest to finally meet Santa Claus. Along the way, she learns that giving can be just as rewarding as receiving. For grades two and below.