Mets honor young readers

Mr. Met gives a hug to Benjamin Serbi, 9, of East Elmhurst and his five-year-old cousin Gilad Serbi. They were among the young readers honored by the Mets before the game at Shea on Wednesday, August 22.
The Mets have teamed up with the Queens Library for a decade, giving away thousands of baseball tickets to kids, to keep them reading while they are out of school for the summer.
Benjamin won a contest to name the Summer Reading mascot for Queens, a cartoon dog detective. He suggested the name “Inspector Clues-oh,” a play on the name of the bumbling French detective in the “Pink Panther” movies.
The clever young Serbi reads at the Langston Hughes branch of the library, on Northern Boulevard in East Elmhurst.
Langston Hughes is one of the centerpiece branches of the borough’s library system, which is the busiest in the U.S. and one of the busiest in the world.