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Is it time to welcome a new genre to our children’s and young adult collections? Kirsten Cappy thinks so. The co-founder and director of I’m Your Neighbor, leads a project highlighting the lives of New Arrivals and New Americans through the sharing of children’s literature. At the MASL Conference in Augusta, Maine last week, I […]
This Week at TLT Book Review: Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson Book Review: Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan Cindy Crushes Programming: Find a Good Book with Miss Cindy Writing Myself a New Story, a guest post by Jasmine Warga Teen Services 101: Serving Teens, Challenges and Rewards Around the Web […]
This is a powerful and painfully honest memoir that looks at surviving while finding your place, your people, and self-acceptance.
"It's almost as if he grew a tree in a garden and didn't allow any of the leaves to grow on it at all, it's just the bare bones of a tree, and asked me to come in and decorate the tree. But without that strength of that tree, nothing would hold up on it." LeUyen Pham and Victoria Stapleton talk about the fabulous picture book Bear Came Along.
Today librarian Cindy Shutts is sharing with us how she turned reader's advisory into a simple yet fun and effective program.
While I was on Spring Break, the Eisner nominations were announced. The Eisner Awards, which is in its 31st year, are named for famed graphic novelist/artist Will Eisner.
As part of our ongoing Teen Services 101 series, today we're looking at the challenges and rewards of serving teens in our public libraries.
There’s a new book out about children’s literature legend Margaret Wise Brown. Today I talk with the author, Mac Barnett, and the illustrator, Sarah Jacoby, about how this book came to together. First up, Mr. Barnett Hi Mac! Margaret Wise Brown. MWB. When did it first occur to you that you should write a bio […]
"It's like the Where's Waldo of literature!" This week we're celebrating another cult classic picture book just as its author releases his adult collection MacDoodle Street. It fails the stranger danger test magnificently, sure, but we can all get behind its "inspired sense of the absurd."
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