PHOTO GALLERY: "Millions of Cats" at Windermere Branch Library

Local families joined Jerry Bickel, of Bits and Pieces in Tampa, for a dramatic reading and stick puppet reenactment of "Millions of Cats," by Wanda Gag, March 5 at Windermere Branch Library. Bickel shared Gag's 1929 Newbery Honor-winning story, the oldest American picture book still in print, of a couple looking for a cat, before directing children in their creation of personal cat stick puppets. After children learned some geometry, counting and creativity while making their puppets, Bickel led them in a reenactment of the tale.