How to pronounce“bookmobile”in English

bookmobile -- excuse me, was not allowed in the library as a black man, as a black child but he was allowed on the bookmobile.

bookmobile and it was a white driver of -- white driver and librarian as a pair

the bookmobile and he was so eloquent about the -- the importance of -- of reading, you know, in the middle of a desert and how that really became a thing

excited about the bookmobile and by the end of dinner had actually come up with this concept of having authors drive it across the country and interviewing readers

magic that happens between bookmobile librarians and, uh, and the people who patronize them.

and the bookmobile just completely overheated and I was, uh, amused to find out when I pulled over and opened the hood that I was actually at Buffalo Bill's

and -- and bookmobiles and certainly if you guys have any thoughts on that you're welcome to talk to Tom and his crew.

on the floor of the bookmobile deciding which books we were going to get.

authors behind the wheel of the bookmobile. So I picked up the bookmobile in Chicago and drove it back to San Francisco in October.

be to get photographs of the bookmobile on the salt flats.

areas and inviting 'em on the bookmobile to drive a segment and tell -- talk to us about books and their -- the place they live and how those things intercept.

to Chicago to get the bookmobile and, umm, it's not that I had my doubts that this was a good idea.

really powerful and I found out not only is the bookmobile itself, you know, really important vehicle of enlightenment and transformation but there's some

know, I saw your bookmobile from the floor of the convention.

he -- he literally became a writer because of libraries and bookmobiles.

I -- it had to interview the bookmobile librarians who had driven this bookmobile for the last 18 years and hear some of their stories and -- which are

up over the sidewalk and down into the salt flats with the bookmobile and got some pretty photos which was awesome and some -- some great footage of the bookmobile

that -- the common thread that seems to run through all the aspects of bookmobile was storytelling.

we're gonna have -- some people are gonna come take a tour on the bookmobile which is parked outside.

here and who are tuning in to our latest Authors@Google installment of "Behind the Wheel of a Bookmobile." "Behind the Wheel of a Bookmobile" is really, uh --

truck comes and hitched up its winch and when it turned on the winch instead of the bookmobile coming to the tow truck, the tow truck comes to the bookmobile.

exchange so that people when we pull into a town and we open the doors of the bookmobile and we invite people on, if they are inclined to share a story, they

can take a book, any book they like from the bookmobile.

and if you can see it here is a quixotic journey that was conceived by the renaissance man Tom Corwin who purchased a classic bookmobile, stocked it with

I actually went to Gurnee, Illinois, where this bookmobile

was actually in service until about eight months ago and, uh, purchased this bookmobile.

Umm, this is Audrey, who drove my bookmobile for 18 years and was pretty sentimental about its leaving the premises.

uh, at the American Library Association convention and I brought a film crew there and we invited people onto the bookmobile and we did this christening.

Being a reader really helped me become a writer and it was a bookmobile that played a big role in it.

So it was really, uh, quite amazing, the bookmobile's role in his life.

And then of course on the way out the plot thickened and the bookmobile sunk into the sand on the periphery

So that's the essence of "Behind the Wheel of a Bookmobile" and, umm, now I'm gonna invite, uh, Jane Ganahl, the

And, umm, so I'm interested in including digital publishing, representing it as well, on the bookmobile and

His first question was, well, I'll go if I can drive the bookmobile and they all have this crazy thing for bookmobiles and

And, umm, and I hope that the bookmobile and these stories can, uh, you know, will inspire people and remind people to --

there's a wonderful, wonderful video of Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket, on the web site where he talks about the importance of bookmobiles and how