(left to right) Maile, age-3 and Lincoln, age-1 1/2, played with the puppet stuffed animals during a visit to the Eden Prairie library with their mom, Alisa Tahi of Eden Prairie. The beloved creatures are being removed by the Hennepin library system due to the swine flu scare. The library will continue to provide wooden and plastic educational toys that can be more easily cleaned than the stuffed animals.

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