Category: authors

• 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

• No, really, let kids choose what they read

  

  In case you need something to tide you over while you wait for your copy of Reading Unbound to arrive, here are some more quotes about why we need to let kids choose what they read. We want to help our students fall in love with books in ways that foster a life-long devotion to…

  Miss Julie

  July 16, 2016

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, books, early literacy, easy readers, fantasy, folk & fairy tales, graphic, J fiction, kidlit, kids, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, middle grade, OPINIONS!, personal experience, publishing, reader's advisory, reading, reading programs, summer reading, teens

  books, education, librarian, librarians, libraries, youth services

• Wondrous Pitiful

  

  My story being done She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. She swore, in faith, ’twas strange, ’twas passing strange, ‘Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful. – Othello, Act 1, Scene 3 The stories of Othello’s youth moved Desdemona to love; they intrigued her, inspired her, incited her to action and emotion. The…

  Miss Julie

  January 25, 2016

  authors, books, kidlit, kids, Librarians, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, picture books, politics, publishing, stories

  books, diversity, librarian, libraries, literature

• How Much Can A Picture Book Do?

  

  update 01/17/16: Scholastic is no longer distributing this title.  The picture book, as a form, has been around for years, and has contributed to literature some of its most stunning masterpieces, in terms of both text and illustration. No one can dare deny the genius of Sendak, Kraus, Keats, Williams, or Raschka. The picture book…

  Miss Julie

  January 16, 2016

  authors, books, cake, historical fiction, kidlit, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, picture books, politics, publishing

  advocacy, books, librarian, literature, youth services

• Interview with Alexis Coe, Author of Alice + Freda Forever

  I’d like to say that I got to sit down with Alexis in a lovely little diner somewhere, drinking coffee as we chatted about vicarious menstruation and murder, but alas, I only got to email her my bizarre questions, but the answers are fabulous, and I appreciate her being a good sport about my admitted…

  Miss Julie

  October 28, 2014

  authors, awesomeness, books, interviews

  authors, bloodlust, books

• Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis

  Publisher’s information: Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that shocked the nation – it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell planned to pass as a man and marry seventeen-year-old Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were…

  Miss Julie

  October 28, 2014

  authors, awesomeness, books, covers, design, nonfiction, reading, reviews

  books, literature

• author, author!

  The past couple of conferences I went to, there was some chatter about author visits at libraries—namely, how do you get anyone to care about and come to your author event? (I’m assuming here you’ve found the money already. Top notch authors are almost always going to be quite expensive, so start budgeting now and…

  Miss Julie

  December 3, 2013

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, cake, events, folk & fairy tales, kidlit, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries-everywhere, marketing, outreach, personal experience, programming, school libraries, schools, teens, ya lit

  author visit, middle school

• let’s stop worrying and love the common core

  You’ll live to be read another day, sweet Catcher in the Rye. Beautiful illustration by naomi yamada. Dear sweet baby Jane. So if you want a rage stroke, read the articles I’ve listed below. If you want to just read an accurate description of how the fiction/nonfiction actually breaks down in the Common Core, just…

  Miss Julie

  December 12, 2012

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, different ways to read, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, literacy, personal experience, professional development, schools

  books, community, librarian, libraries, literature, sweet baby jane

• Boundtracks: Pete the Cat and “New Shoes”

  Oh, Pete the Cat! I can practically recite you from memory, and there isn’t a group of kids and adults in existence who aren’t magically swept up in your bouncy tale of sloppy shoes. (Although some more savvy color mixers insist that first your shoes should turn pink then purple but I call it a…

  Miss Julie

  May 17, 2012

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, boundtracks, different ways to read, early childhood, early literacy, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, participation, picture books, preschool, programming, reading, stories, storytime, toddlers

• Beginning Reader Storytime, Art Adventure: The Final Countdown

  So now the kids have their backgrounds and their characters. Then they just had to glue them down and voila! Their very own Eric Carle-esque creations! Has anyone else managed to do a long term author/illustrator based program like this one? Ours went off pretty well; for those with attendance concerns, this is a registered…

  Miss Julie

  May 8, 2012

  artsncrafts, authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, beginningreaderstorytime, books, classic picture books, early childhood, early literacy, kids, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, picture books, programming, storytime