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dream: job.
Brian Herzog wrote an amusing post about a dream he had, wherein he chastised a library user for playing Marco Polo too loudly. Have you ever dreamed about work? When I was still a preschool teacher, I would sometimes dream that somehow all of the children I taught had ended up in my apartment, and…
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hooray!
I’d say I spend 99% of my time feeling like I’m squarely in the “hooray!” quadrant. How about you?
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vintage ALA ad from 1977
Yet so many people don’t know that we still do all of these things today, and more. Where’s the 2010 version of this poster, y’all? Found this poster at the Vintage Ad Browser.
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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…
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there are so many
I found a new blog to read, thanks to Bookshelves of Doom: Curious Pages, recommended inappropriate books for children. A topic that will never lack for content, I tell you what.
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Book Crave*
I am somewhat of a thematic programmer, but I am also a weirdo who connects books, rhymes and songs the way Thelonius Monk improvises– it makes glorious sense, but not in the way you’d usually expect. I needed a new story time to take out on some preschool visits, and I was blanking on what…
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excerpt from Ain’t Love a Kick in the Head
Lisette’s nostrils were suddenly filled with the rich odor of apples and hay, with a sharp, sweet undertone of sugar. The scent made her heart clip clop in her chest. It took her back to her childhood on her Uncle Schaffer’s farm, to those long, summer days spent riding horses, mucking their stalls, braiding their…
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reading, pronouncing, and announcing
Peter over at Collection Children’s Books wrote a great post about having a reader’s vocabulary–you know, those words you know from reading them, but are deathly afraid of using in conversation because you have no idea how to pronounce them? (Subcutaneous was a word I loved, but never spoke aloud. I think I heard it…
Hi, Miss Julie
EDI, Leadership, & Storytime
Hi, Miss Julie 