INUVIK - Skyla Kagyut gets it.

Children of all ages flock to the library to be the first in line for a computer, grab their favourite book or just hang out with their buds.

Skyla Kagyut, middle, shares a moment at the library with her brother Chad Pokiak and Jordanna Ruben on Monday afternoon. - Andrew Rankin/ NNSL photo

The Grade 3 student encourages all those things; she just doesn't want to witness any of it.

Take for example Jordanna Ruben, 3, who made her first visit to the library Monday afternoon. Skyla was forced to watch the tiny fireball squeal with excitement as she tore through pages of children books and comment about her love of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat. Beyond the books Jordanna was also thrilled to see like minded, excitable children.

"There's lots of kids and lots of books," said Jordanna with a giggle.

Skyla just wants kids like Jordanna to chill out a bit. She figures a library is a professional place to be taken seriously.

Then, of course, there's the age gap between her and the really little kids.

"I don't stick with little kids," she said.

But the Grade 3 student admits to reading some Dr. Seuss "a long time ago when I was six-years-old."

A girl of somewhat sophisticated tastes, Skyla wouldn't be caught dead reading Dr. Seuss. Rather, when she's not being forced to read school texts she prefers any one of the Arthur series books.

"I'm a good reader," she said. "(Arthur's) a little funny. He makes faces and his friends make him laugh."

Though she likes her literature humorous, Skyla insists - barely keeping a straight face - that she's not funny and doesn't have a sense of humour.

If she's not reading, Skyla's on the library computer, playing any number of math games, another one of her many talents.

"Anything like pluses and minuses and take-away, I'm good at. That's what my teachers tell me."

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