By NATALIE SCOTT To kick off National Right to Read Week, West
Boulevard Elementary School hosted a visit from Boardman
librarian John Yingling Feb. 1. The theme for Right to Read Week
this year is “Reading Around the World,” so Yingling presented
stories the way that people told them before written language
was invented — with puppets, costumes and recitation. “Before
there were books, people would act out scenes of the story from
the books,” said Yingling. “And that’s what I am going to do
here today.” Yingling used stories from books from the library
to perform for the children. Some of the stories were familiar
for the students, while others they didn’t recognize. He started
with the story “That’s Good, That’s Bad.” To tell the story,
Yingling pretended to be one of the characters in the book — the
boy who was carried away from his parents at the zoo by a
balloon and into a jungle and the trouble he gets into there.
The story focuses on the theme that even when you think
something could be bad, it might b