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Review: Grave Mercy

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June 5, 2012

Grave Mercy by R.L. LaFevers My rating: 4 of 5 stars Aside from some language that didn’t quite scan for me (the use of the word “scoot” specifically; this book is set in the 1400s and that word wasn’t around until the 1700s), I really, really enjoyed this epic mingling…
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Read, Eat, and Be Snobby

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May 25, 2012

I have a post up at the BEA Librarian blog all about summer reading, literacy, and snobbery. Go read it!
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May the Fourth Be With You: 2013

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May 24, 2012

May 4th is on a Saturday next year and so help me, I’ll be planning and implementing a large scale, fun for the whole family “May the Fourth Be With You” Star Wars nerdamondium party that will be so awesome I may just explode. Other libraries have done it with…
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Stifled: or, the exact wrong way to think about storytime

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May 17, 2012

Oh, dear sweet baby Picard Jebus, there’s a rage making thread on pub-yac about a children’s department being forced to do all of their storytimes the same. Here’s a quote: […A]ll the storytimes for one age group should be the same because: Patrons get disappointed when they can’t get into…
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Boundtracks: Pete the Cat and “New Shoes”

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May 17, 2012

Oh, Pete the Cat! I can practically recite you from memory, and there isn’t a group of kids and adults in existence who aren’t magically swept up in your bouncy tale of sloppy shoes. (Although some more savvy color mixers insist that first your shoes should turn pink then purple…
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Muffins with Mom

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May 13, 2012

Years ago, at one of my first library jobs, I had a weekend morning program that I called “Doughnuts with Dad.” I believe it was around father’s day, but it might not have been. All I did was brew some coffee, buy some doughnuts and juice, gussy up the tables…
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Beginning Reader Storytime, Art Adventure: The Final Countdown

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May 8, 2012

So now the kids have their backgrounds and their characters. Then they just had to glue them down and voila! Their very own Eric Carle-esque creations! Has anyone else managed to do a long term author/illustrator based program like this one? Ours went off pretty well; for those with attendance…
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Beginning Reader Storytime: The Write Stuff

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May 7, 2012

During this session of beginning reader storytime, we’ve been focusing on writing. We wrote on dry erase boards, created an alphabet book where we wrote words, made letters out of pretzel twists, and this week we wrote in shaving cream, which was, frankly, just a whole lot of fun in…
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Listen, I’m Telling You Stories

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May 3, 2012

Funerals are not for the dead, they are for the living. They are for those left behind, to act as a comforting play in which we know all the roles and there is no twist in the second act. My mother would have hated her own funeral. It was a…
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found: an awesome pub-yac post.

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April 18, 2012

This is a gem from the pubyac archives about people hating on teens, and one librarian’s response (posted with her permission): Uh, how does your library handle loitering adults? It might be handy to have a definition of ‘loitering’: loiter v. to linger or hang around in a public…
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Hello,

I’m Julie

Julie sitting on a chair, holding a copy of the book A Wrinkle In Time.

I’ve worked with children and their families for over twenty years. I’m a storyteller, librarian, musician, and advocate. I’m passionate about early childhood education, inclusion, and ethical leadership. These are my stories.