Month: December 2009

• an open letter to Justine Larbalestier, regarding her novel _Liar_

  Warning: if you dislike spoilery type statements, don’t read this post. Also, if you don’t have a sense of humor, don’t read this post. If you don’t have a sense of humor, you should probably just stay far, far away from the internet, period. You’ll be happier that way. Dear Ms. Larbalestier, I am writing…

  Miss Julie

  December 30, 2009

  authors, OPINIONS!, ya lit

• Space…the library frontier

  After seeing this post at ohdeedoh (which is a surprisingly good source of ideas for youth librarians), I decided that my ideal childrens’ department would have to have a wall made entire of felt, a wall painted in chalkboard paint, and a wall with magnetized paint (and a wall of lick-able wall-paper, if it weren’t…

  Miss Julie

  December 15, 2009

  be the best you can be, early literacy, ethics, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, OPINIONS!, personal experience, preschool