
The following article was submitted by the Lester Public Library.
Picture this: It’s a beautiful August afternoon in Two Rivers, and as you drive along the prettily landscaped Memorial Drive you spy children and their family members sprawled across the library lawn. Upon closer inspection, you discover what appear to be many belly buttons on display. As you lean towards your open window you hear it:“Belly button, belly button, OH! my belly button, I love you!”
That’s your cue to turn into the library’s parking lot and join the happy mob. Because The Belly Button Song can only mean one thing: Tom Pease is performing. And you may find yourself exposing your own umbilicus, or offering random strangers Eight Hugs a Day.
Pease has been the premier “headliner” for the library’s summer reading program most years since 1998. His songs are easy to sing along with and, in one word, delightful. He uses movement and humor to quickly have his audience raucously participating.
We look forward to yet another infectiously joyful performance Wednesday, Aug. 10 at 1:30 p.m. If it rains, the event will be postponed until Aug. 12.
Want to brush up on the artist’s greatest hits? We have many of his CDs at the library. Visit our online catalog at www.lesterlibrary.org to reserve one. You won’t be sorry when you play Pease’s music at home or in the car; you’ll soon find yourself belting out the songs with your little ones. And possible having greater regard for your belly button.