# Forty-Foot Bookworm

> Forty-Foot Bookworm is a Retsy Series 1 NFT on Solana, card 0318 of 1,280 in the 80s Hangouts set, made in six finishes. The library's summer reading program, where each finished book added a paper segment to a wall-length bookworm.

URL: https://retsy.fun/collection/forty-foot-bookworm/

- Card number: 0318 of 1,280
- Set: 80s Hangouts (80-HNG)
- Year: 1983
- Type: Library summer reading program
- Tagline: Read a book. Grow the worm.
- Found at: Public library, children's room
- Cost back then: Free with a library card
- Stats: Nostalgia 8/10, Hype 5/10, Weirdness 4/10, Trade value 3/10
- Finishes: Base (100 copies), Holo (50 copies), Laser (25 copies), Gold (10 copies), Super Laser (1 copy), Misprint (1 copy)
- Images: https://retsy.fun/nft/0318-base.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0318-holo.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0318-laser.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0318-gold.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0318-super.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0318-misprint.webp

## The story

Ms. Okafor taped a paper bookworm head above the card catalog in June, and by August it wrapped around the children's room twice. Every book you finished became a new segment with your name in crayon. Prizes came at five, ten and twenty books: an iron-on patch, a pencil topper, then a free summer swim pass. Bragging rights lasted all year.

## Fun fact

One summer the bookworm grew so long that it escaped the children's room and curled into the reference section.

Retsy Series 1 is an NFT collection on Solana. Every card is minted to the buyer's wallet the moment its pack is ripped at https://retsy.fun/packs/.