Category: summer reading

• 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…

  Miss Julie

  July 3, 2010

  be the best you can be, censorship, different ways to read, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, personal experience, politics, professional development, reading, summer reading, video games, ya lit

• summer reading.

  I have a complex relationship with the institution of summer reading. I never participated in summer reading as a child, which may explain my lack of zealous enthusiasm for it. I do see its value, and I do love that it gets kids into the library, but there is something about the entire exercise that…

  Miss Julie

  May 15, 2010

  be the best you can be, books, early literacy, fathers, kids, Librarians, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, literacy, mothers, participation, preschool, professional development, reading, reading programs, storytime, summer reading

• a crony, ms.

  I have award fatigue right now. Trying to keep track of the Caudills, the Monarchs, the Cybills, the Lincolns, the Caldecotts, the Newberys, et al, has broken my brain. I realized today that I have no handle on the 2010 Monarch nominees. This is shameful. I begin reading in earnest tomorrow. Speaking of reading (how’s…

  Miss Julie

  January 13, 2010

  awards, kids, Librarians, libraries now!, OPINIONS!, reading, summer reading