Month: September 2016

• Picture it: a program

  

  Do you want a program that you can do at your library that is: intergenerational? collaborative? creative? involves multiple departments, including tech services? celebrates picture books and novels? Well, here it is: Buy a bunch of blank books from Bare Books. They have paperbacks, picture books, graphic novels, board books–all of them blank and ready […]

  Miss Julie

  September 12, 2016

  authors, awesomeness, books, classic picture books, covers, design, graphic, kids, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, picture books, programming, reading, schools

• Smile! Rats! Or, a book talk

  

  When I book talk, I sometimes like to structure them as a sort of narrative unto themselves. I thought I’d attempt to write out an example for you. When I book talk Smile, I like to throw in my own personal story about when I was a kid and I needed a retainer because one […]

  Miss Julie

  September 8, 2016

  books, booktalks, J fiction, kidlit, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, middle grade, outreach, personal experience, reader's advisory

  books, librarian, libraries, literature, youth services