Next to her on the shelf she is sitting on are some classic books Charlotte's Web, Little House on the Prairie, and a collection of Hans Christian Andersen's works (a famous Danish storyteller) There are cards laying next to the books also because there is a faithful group of card players that meets at the library... can you tell by the cards what game they play?
There is a globe in the background symbolising that the world is opened up to you through literature. The globe is positioned with Europe and Denmark near the top.. next to the head of the Viking ship as a nod to the Danish Immigrants who founded this town in Iowa.
Various modes of travel are represented, A Viking ship, Hot air balloon, a train all means of transporting us to explore new places and ideas in our library. Fantasy and fairy tales are shown in the fairy and the castle, mermaid and beanstalk. Science and technology represented by the magnifying glass and the space shuttle which is modeled after the ship "Discovery." Do you know what kind of flower the fairy is studying? I'll give you a hint: it is a plant associated with healing of the immune system!
An owl flies over by the moon, entering the picture like wisdom or mystery. A little gray cat watches the scene from the window ledge, he is particularly interested in the little mouse hiding in the grass. Can you find the mouse?