Category: backlistbeauties

• Sharing A Wrinkle In Time

  Click through to see the facebook page for A Wrinkle in Time. My love of A Wrinkle In Time has been documented before on this blog, and because I love it so much, it is one of those books that I can’t share lightly, and I have to be careful not to put it in…

  Miss Julie

  January 24, 2012

  authors, awesomeness, backlistbeauties, books, covers, J fiction, kidlit, largely unsubstantiated, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, OPINIONS!, publishing, reading

• top 11 posts of 2011

  When I first started this blog, I had no grand aspirations. I am passionate about the library field, child development, and children’s literature, and I wanted to have a place to express my thoughts, and I hoped that I would garner at least a dedicated, engaged readership. Fairly early on, I experienced the Elizabeth Bird…

  Miss Julie

  December 31, 2011

  authors, awesomeness, babies, backlistbeauties, be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, books, early childhood, early literacy, ethics, kidlit, kids, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, library school vs. real libraries, literacy, marketing, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, picture books, politics, preschool, professional development, programming, reading, reading programs, reviews, storytime, summer reading, teens, toddlers, weeding

• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

  In 2012, A Wrinkle in Time will be fifty years old, and I’ll be one of many people celebrating this marvelous, mind-bending, heart opening piece of children’s literature. It’s been a dark and stormy week here in a Chicago, which makes it a perfect time to reminisce about this, one of my favorite books of…

  Miss Julie

  September 29, 2011

  backlistbeauties, be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, books, fantasy, fathers, J fiction, kidlit, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, personal experience, publishing, reading, reviews, scifi, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness

• Boundtracks: Geek Love / Born This Way

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  Miss Julie

  May 16, 2011

  awesomeness, backlistbeauties, bibliotherapy, boundtracks, crossover, music, queer, random, videos, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness, ya lit

• book battles

  There are quite a few book battles going on right now, for practically every reading taste. SLJ’s Battle of the Kids’ books is going strong, and focuses on children’s books from the past year, including chapter books, nonfiction, and graphic novels. I particularly enjoyed match 3, with judge Barry Lyga. My Two Barrys (Barries?)–I’d watch…

  Miss Julie

  March 17, 2011

  authors, awesomeness, backlistbeauties, books, libraries now!, literacy, publishing, reader's advisory, reading

• historic

  I have a guest post up over at Librarian by Day, about one of my favorite backlist/crossover titles, My Sister The Moon, by Sue Harrison. I got into Sue Harrison’s books after I read Jean Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear/Earth’s Children series (which is FINALLY coming to an end in 2011, thank jeebus) and…

  Miss Julie

  November 19, 2010

  backlistbeauties, books, crossover, historical fiction, OPINIONS!, personal experience, ya lit

• backlist beauties: One for the Morning Glory

  One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes. It was 1996 or 1997  and I was in the Hallmark Waldenbooks in Clinton, Ia, with my mother and most likely my sister. Even though our small family farm never brought in a sizeable or steady income, one thing my mother always allowed us to buy was…

  Miss Julie

  May 11, 2010

  authors, awesomeness, backlistbeauties, books, fantasy, folk & fairy tales, personal experience, reading, reviews