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Librarian Lisa Krok shares with us an overview of recent training about facilitating racial healing circles.
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Kirk Scroggs talks about the invention of Swamp Kid and his diary-style graphic novel.
Here’s a simple, three step process for confusing a kid. 1. Take a picture book. 2. Lift the jacket up until it looks like this: 3. Hand to a student and ask them to fix it. Actually, don’t do that. It’s too cruel. But if you’ve worked in a library I bet you’ve had students […]
A list of this year's all ages comics available for Halloween Comicfest 2019.
It’s time for another roundup of new and forthcoming YA (and sometimes not YA) books featuring LGBTQIA+ characters. Get ready to do some collection development!
Previously . . . I Asked Shel Silverstein About the Meaning of Life A Conversation with Shel Silverstein Hey, Shel – I know you’re busy brooding right now, but I have an idea that might perk you up. Want to get Subway for lunch? I knew that would get you excited. So what do you […]
Travis: Throwing it back to when I interviewed Lindsay Eagar about her excellent work of middle grade fiction, Hour of the Bees. We hope you get a chance to listen (or re-listen) to this episode.
Today, we discuss a very different kind of collaboration. One that not only involves Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and Caldecott honoree Thi Bui, but also Viet's son Ellison and Thi's son Hien. Because when it comes to creating books, sometimes making something new is truly a family affair.
Nonfiction history books have not fared well in Newbery announcements in recent years. This year's contenders to break that streak could include a history of the first cross-country women's air race and a look at a year's worth of major events from exactly one century ago.
Let's take a look at what some libraries are doing to help serve their patrons with dyslexia for Dyslexia Awareness Month.
Librarian Cindy Shutts walks us through a craft program inspired by the Internet trend and popular Netflix TV show Nailed It!
Today we have an exclusive first look at Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva, which will be published in March 2020 by BOOM! Studios’ BOOM! Box imprint. Usdin and Vakueva originally teamed up on the comics series Heavy Vinyl, which was collected as a trade. Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! will be an original […]
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”- James Baldwin Some debut novels are written and go overlooked, never to be heard from again. This post I would like to discuss author Lisa Moore Ramee’s beautifully crafted story and timely work of middle-grade fiction, A GOOD […]
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one of my most recent reviews, which originally appeared in an issue of School Library Journal. Gr 9 Up—Two lesbians in rural Texas suffer […]
Discover a creative nonfiction tale that explores the notions of contrast, evolution, and perseverance within the natural world--all through the unlikely hero of the moth.
Soon it will be November. Around these parts of the school library world, November means Mock Caldecott.
Over the years I've heard lots of adults make comments about the tawdry state of children's books today. So allow me now to address these concerns. What, I ask, makes you think children's books today don't cut it?
Karen Jensen reviews The Year We Fell from Space by Amy Sarig King.
Librarian Lisa Krok shares with us an overview of recent training about facilitating racial healing circles.
Dark Horse and DC Comics get the spotlight with titles to entertain and enlighten all readers of any age.
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