Some summertime silliness -
As much as I love Jim Arnosky’s wonderful books, my popular copy of All About Turtles was looking pretty shabby, so I stamped it for the discard pile. Before discarding it however, I decided to take one last look at the lovely illustrations. That’s when I found …
the banana. Yup, a banana - smashed between the gopher tortoise and the diamondback rattlesnake. Strangely, in it’s flattened, and rather petrified state, it almost fits in with the illustration, don’t you agree? 
So what’s the weirdest thing you’ve found in the pages of your library’s books? Have a photo? Email it to me and I’ll add it to this post. 
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One of my first library jobs was emptying the bookdrop on Saturday mornings. I have found (used as bookmarks, I supposed) both a slice of raw bacon and a slice of wrapped cheese. Oh, and once, a chicken. In the bookdrop. Alive (just barely). Sadly, no pictures to document this experience.
Bacon and cheese – odd, surely, but a chicken?! Wow!
A panty shield – unused (except as a bookmark apparently), thankfully.
I found, what we think, was a piece of Fudge smushed between two books on the shelf
One of my colleagues found strategically placed post-its in a copy of The Elves and the Shoemaker on the elves’ nether regions! Ew, but in a different way, huh?
Yes, thanks for sharing.
Every year there is a festival in May at the giant catholic church next to my branch, and we have found plenty of interesting stuff on Monday morning after Festival. The worst things were a dead goldfish and what smelled like an entire beer spilled down the bookdrop slot (luckily, these were on separate years).
My banana is looking better and better!