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Top 10 Reasons I Love Conferences
Due to the fact that I took a red-eye back to the East Coast this morning, had just enough time to drive home, shower and get to work, I’ll say I’m not running on all cylinders right now. I had a parachute storytime this morning that went very well, took a…
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ALA Annual Conference
I’ve been learning a lot, connecting with other librarians, and getting some great new ARCs of some promising new books being published in the next few months. I’ll be heading home tonight and you’ll definitely see my musings about the annual conference in the coming week. And if you haven’t…
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I’m leaving on a jet plane…
I’m making my way to Las Vegas this evening to spend the weekend at the ALA Annual Conference! If you can’t get the chance to get away this year, make sure you check out what’s happing on Twitter – #alaac14. I’ll also be live blogging for the ALSC blog, so…
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Review: Boys of Blur
I heard about Boys of Blur on the Fuse #8 blog from School Library Journal about some books that the author (Elizabeth Bird) thought might be strong contenders for the Newbery Award for 2015. A slight novel, with less than 200 pages, Boys of Blur, packed a punch. With strong parallel…
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Groundbeaking News… or maybe not!
There is an article in The New York Times today titled “Pediatrics Group to Recommend Reading Aloud to Children From Birth.” The American Academy of Pediatrics is officially weighing in about the importance of early literacy, announcing a new policy today that will encourage doctors to offer advice and become…
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Story Time Theme: Talking
Today began our the first week of storytime for our summer session. As you can see from my notes below, I’m offering a traditional toddler storytime for ages 2 – 3 1/2 and a parachute storytime for the same age group. I decided to focus on the 5 early literacy…
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NetGalley
After seeing fellow librarians post about NetGalley, I have finally made up my own profile and requested my first digital galley to read. If you’re unfamiliar with NetGalley, it “provides digital review copies to professional readers, including booksellers, librarians, media, bloggers, reviewers and educators.” This is a great way to…
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The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing
Anymore it seems to me that trilogies, series, and companion novels are written not because the author has created an amazing place with characters you want to know more about, but merely to make more revenue through the books. Many series have amazing first books, but not very strong second…
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Summer Boredom
I just saw this post about kids in today’s society who don’t know how to keep themselves busy and have fun without having direction from adults. They start out on summer vacation sleeping in, doing fun things with mom, dad, or the babysitter and doing new things. After a few…
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Story Time Theme: Fruits & Veggies
I just found this blog post that somehow got lost in the shuffle! So even though this is from a few months ago, I’m going to post it so everyone can see the books I used. ____________________________________________________ Although I had a small crowd (only 7!), we had a great time in…