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2010 ALA Annual Wrap-Up
I’ve been absent for a bit because I was attending the 2010 ALA Annual conference in Washington, D.C. You can read about my top five experiences at ALA at the PLA blog. I was super-excited and nervous...
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Native American Heritage Month
Debbie Reese is my blogging heroine, my blogging role model. If there’s one blog I wish my blog could be like, it’s Reese’s American Indians in Children’s Literature. She was the model for what I...
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Los Conchas Fire Update/Help/Where I’m At
Being evacuated sucks. It sucked when I drove away from Hattiesburg after Katrina, it sucks when I am unable to get into Los Alamos right now. It’s just the worst. I HATE being away from my library...
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So what, exactly, *is* The Monstrumologist? A very special GUEST POST by Rick...
When I started thinking about why I loved The Monstrumologist series (the series is The Monstrumologist, The Curse of the Wendigo and the forthcoming Isle of Blood, which – DON’T FORGET – releases...
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“A cup of kindness.” In Memoriam, E.L. Konigsburg, 1930-2013
The beauty of Koningsburg prose was how acutely she captured the aches and pains of being an outsider, a loner, a kid that was a little different. There’s something particularly middle-grade about...
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Books for Ferguson – UPDATED
11/28/14 We have a FOURTH list of titles for Ferguson! Believe it or not, we got through the third list in less than two days. This is amazing, world. These titles have been approved by Scott Bonner....
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Dinosaurs @ Your Library!
Last summer we repeated one of our popular standalone programs – DINOS! It had been a few years since we did this program and, as many of you know, I recycle these themed programs at least every 2-3...
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At the request of the ALSC Executive Committee, I have formally resigned from the 2018 Newbery Committee. Let me explain. At the beginning of this month, I tweeted a story about one of my kid library...
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THE LOST GIRL by Anne Ursu – Blog Tour (with a giveaway!)
What do you call a group of girls? A giggle?A gossip?What about …a force. I was so excited to be asked to be part of the blog tour for the new Anne Ursu book The Lost Girl (which comes out this...
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