Category: personal experience
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Summer Reading, pain in my…*
Summer Reading. We spend all year working on it. We can’t escape it. I hate it. I hate summer reading. But…but…it helps kids retain their reading skills over summer vacation! You know why we even have a summer vacation? So kids could spend the summer months helping out on the farm. Wait…your kids don’t live…
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meow mix
For this storytime, you need: 1 cat puppet 1 copy of There are Cats in the Book 1 copy of Cat Secrets Any other cat picture books that strike your fancy, especially ones that detail cat behavior. 1 copy of Hide and Seek with Grover if you want to go the meta route. With this…
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Beginning Reader Storytime
I get bored easily. I think that’s why I work well with toddlers and teenagers– we all have a similar hunger for new experiences and pushing boundaries. I was tired of doing the same old preschool storytime. I mean, I loved it, but like I said, I get bored easily. I want to try new…
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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…
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we don’t need you, either.
The Summer Reading program. It is the event that youth librarians spend almost their entire year either preparing for or recovering from. Children and parents descend, en masse, worked up into a froth of excitement from the promotional tour–books were booktalked, prizes were displayed and demonstrated, and the joy and pleasure of the program were…
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advocate.
I was poking around craigslist not too long ago, seeing if I had anything anyone needed in the “wanted” section when I came across this ad: Wanted: BOOKS OR MOVIES Hi, I am in need of books of any kind to read myself or to my children I have been laid off of work now…
Hi, Miss Julie 