Category: design

• 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

• 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

• Book Review: Ultraviolet

  Ultraviolet, by R.J. Anderson. Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her. Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular girl at school. But the case is a…

  Miss Julie

  July 22, 2011

  awesomeness, bibliotherapy, books, design, reviews, scifi, 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

• tight times.

  During the  course of my library work not too long ago, I came across a book illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman that was in a sad state of disrepair. Since I love Trina’s illustrations, I promptly looked to see if I could replace it, and, as is my wont, went on a spree of buying…

  Miss Julie

  February 11, 2010

  bibliotherapy, classic picture books, design, fathers, kids, picture books, reading rainbow, 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