Obamas Surprise Kids at New Chicago Library Branch
The former president and first lady lead story time Friday with the first school group to enter the Obama Presidential Center branch of the Chicago Library.
Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama Friday morning surprised 25 students from nearby Hyde Park school William H. Ray Elementary at the Obama Presidential Center’s Chicago Public Library branch less than an hour before it officially opened to the public.
The Obamas came out to read Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” and spent roughly 24 minutes reading and taking pictures with the students and teachers after.
“Are you telling stories up in here?” President Obama said to the kids after walking into the main reading room from the library’s nearby President’s Reading Room. He aske…
