Category: covers

• 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

• 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

• 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

• reader feed round-up

  Here’s some blogs that I’ve been enjoying recently: Teacher Tom, a blog about early childhood and how kids learn and explore. Maria’s Movers, a very niche blog about incorporating literacy in movement and vice-versa; a great resource for anyone who presents a program similar to my Mini Movers. Found via someone’s blog…I can’t remember, I…

  Miss Julie

  August 13, 2011

  awesomeness, covers, design, random, ya lit

• hark! an arc!

  I’ve come into possession of several ARCs recently, and normally I don’t give a frak about that kind of thing, and book-bragging fills me with an inexplicable rage, but I really have liked these books so Imma gonna tell you about ’em. However, I don’t do synopses because they bore me, that’s what we have…

  Miss Julie

  July 12, 2011

  awesomeness, covers, fantasy, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, middle grade, OPINIONS!, publishing, reviews, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness, ya lit

• weak in the knees.

  Dear Readers, Consider this cover: I’ve been smitten with this book cover since I first saw it back in January, on several different sites. The rich, saturated colors; the direct, forthright gazes of the three children; the hidden person; the cat; the fact that they all sort of remind me of Harold from Harold and…

  Miss Julie

  June 3, 2010

  authors, books, covers, design, J fiction, kidlit, middle grade, reading, reviews

• “we apologize for our mistake.”

  Magic Under Glass will get a new jacket. Huzzah to everyone who spoke out. I’d also like to add, I am really looking forward to reading this book. A dance-hall girl? Dancing for pennies? How very Firefly.

  Miss Julie

  January 21, 2010

  be the best you can be, covers, design, publishing