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MORFITT>>> MY name's Walter Morfitt and I run a company called Animal EDUtainment.
TOWNSEND>>> I'm Sarah Townsend, I'm group manager for Aylesbury Libraries. We're about
to have Animal EDUtainment come in and entertain lots of children. They are a company that
brings animals and they talk about their environment and where they come from and what they do
and it's all linked to our circus, of the stars, which is our summer reading challenge
this year.
MORFITT>>> See this slimey stuff, that goes into your Mum's moisturising cream, and face
cream, so your Mum's are rubbing snail slime all over their faces!! Yeah but you give your
Mum a kiss on the cheek! There's nothing better, seeing the reaction of people and animals
and how they interact with them, is just brilliant.
TOWNSEND>>> Summer reading challenge is a national scheme which is organised through
the Reading Agency, I think about ninety percent of libraries across the whole country take
part in the Summer Reading Challenge. The idea is to keep children reading through the
summer holidays.
MORFITT>>> Now that's a girl tarantula, she will live for at least thirty years, if it
was a boy, five years. It gives them a good learning base to learn that not everything's
going to hurt them, reasons why, and also it starts leading them into conservation,
they start talking about where they come from, why they're quite rare and it gets them coming
in and they love it. She has one hundred teeth and they all point backwards into their mouth.
TOWNSEND>>> They get to see animals that they would've heard about but would never normally
see, like tarantulas and large snails and stick insects. They also get to see fluffy
rabbits and there's no reason to assume that someone may have held a rabbit before so they
get to stroke rabbits.