Top of the Heap!

Monday's Riddle washed out the theme this week, and Lizzy's review of Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage carried us away on a tide of mystery. The Fairy Tale Book Giveaway Hop is enchanting Fairday's Blog this month! Stop by for a spell and you may find yourself on the other side of a rainbow ; ) Friday, we will be catching a wave with Natalie Standiford and chatting about her intriguing new middle grade book The Secret Tree . Saturday, we always love to find out what you're thinking on The DMS Wants to Know ! Today, we are shouting out across the water to tell you about the oldest known message in a bottle...message received, finally! ~ F & L 
This week's top of the heap: The oldest known message in a bottle.

World's Oldest Message in a Bottle Found Off Scotland!



A Scottish fisherman has set a Guinness World Record by recovering the oldest-known message in a bottle, besting the previous record by more than five years. Sailing the vessel "Copious," skipper Andrew Leaper, 43, discovered the bottle floating east of the Shetland Islands off the northern coast of Scotland. It was set adrift more than 98 years ago in June 1914 by Capt. CH Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation, the BBC reported. Guinness World Records has confirmed that the bottle is, in fact, the oldest ever recovered... read more.
Have you ever found a message in a bottle? What did it say? 

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