Tri-Li Summer Reading Website

When you said you liked it hot you weren’t really thinking quite this hot. The sun beats down on you and the steady pace of your camel makes it hard to stay awake. Your boss, Professor Burton doesn’t seem to notice the heat. Then again he doesn’t notice flies, dust storms, freezing savannah nights, torrential downpours, or the need for sleep. He does notice each person who comes to you for help and every book that your camel train carries.

He seems to know every language there is in this part of Africa and can find the smallest village or waterhole where semi-nomadic people might stop and need a book. You help him keep the camels in line and unpack and repack the books at every stop. You never imagined that working on a bookmobile could be this exotic and fulfilling.

Together with Professor Burton you help people chose books to improve their health, teach their children, and increase their crops. You lead storytime for little ones out in the open air and help grandmothers read for the first time. This is only a summer job but you know you are going to miss this life when you get back to the city.

There really is a camel train bookmobile which delivers books and information to nomadic peoples in Kenya.