Month: January 2010

• Book Crave*

  I am somewhat of a thematic programmer, but I am also a weirdo who connects books, rhymes and songs the way Thelonius Monk improvises– it makes glorious sense, but not in the way you’d usually expect. I needed a new story time to take out on some preschool visits, and I was blanking on what…

  Miss Julie

  January 8, 2010

  be the best you can be, classic picture books, different ways to read, personal experience, preschool, programming, storytime

• excerpt from Ain’t Love a Kick in the Head

  Lisette’s nostrils were suddenly filled with the rich odor of apples and hay, with a sharp, sweet undertone of sugar. The scent made her heart clip clop in her chest. It took her back to her childhood on her Uncle Schaffer’s farm, to those long, summer days spent riding horses, mucking their stalls, braiding their…

  Miss Julie

  January 7, 2010

  weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness, ya lit

• I’d read it.

  Pulled this from the comments on my Liar post. I’d read it. In fact, I asked Ian* for a sample chapter. Let’s see if it happens! Dear Sir or Madam: I would like to offer for your consideration my book “Kicked in the Head by Love”, a historical romance featuring centaurs, the hot new heirs…

  Miss Julie

  January 6, 2010

  publishing, reading, stories, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness, ya lit

• reading, pronouncing, and announcing

  Peter over at Collection Children’s Books wrote a great post about having a reader’s vocabulary–you know, those words you know from reading them, but are deathly afraid of using in conversation because you have no idea how to pronounce them? (Subcutaneous was a word I loved, but never spoke aloud. I think I heard it…

  Miss Julie

  January 6, 2010

  be the best you can be, different ways to read, literacy, OPINIONS!, reading