Sentinel photo by BUFFIE BOYER

ABOVE: Dakota Bailey, center, and her sister, Shelby, both of Lewistown, are eagerly observe an anaconda held by its owner Marty Bowen, of Serpents and Claws in Lewistown, during a reptile show at the Mifflin County Library Tuesday. The show was part of the library’s summer reading program.

LEFT: Shelby Bailey, left, of Lewistown, pets a Savannah monitor as her sister, Dakota, right, peeks out from under its belly during the Serpents and Claws show at the Mifflin County Library Tuesday. Marty Bowen, owner of Serpents and Claws, presented a wide variety of reptiles to area children and their families at the library’s summer reading program.