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Notes on June 2018
(gif via H. Goodspeed) In June . . . . . . I challenged your book cover deciphering skills. Can you name the LEGO book covers? . . . we hugged the unhuggable. Explore a picture book mini-trend in the making. . . . we stepped inside the Illustrator Studio. Tundra Books has a new […]
Books on Film: Watch the The House with a Clock in Its Walls Trailer
Creepy classic The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs is being turned into a movie starring Jack (he who will not stop until he is in all the children’s book adaptations) Black and Cate Blanchette. The trailer was recently release...
Instagramming ALA Annual 2018: Sunday and Monday
Friday and Saturday? A warm up! Sunday was the day. I was up early. I took this NOLA morning street shot . . . . . . on my way to the Coretta Scott King Breakfast. Wow was it a great event. All the winners spoke and it’s one of those times when you are […]
Instagramming ALA Annual 2018: Friday and Saturday
I’m back from the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference and boy are my sweat glands tired. It was a warm and wonderful four days, so I figured it deserves the recap treatment. But whatever you do, don’t go to the ALA recap over at A Fuse #8 Production, read it, realize she’s a far […]
Makin’ a List, Checking with You
School Library Journal asked me to help out with a list of the ten best transitional reader books for their annual Best of the Year celebrations in print and online. I’ve been paying extra close attention to all 2018 early readers and chapter books, but in the words of Aerosmith, I don’t wanna miss a […]
My ALA Annual Plan-ual
Later this week I’m headed to the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference (do all those words get capitalized? I’m going with it). Will you be there? I have a three-pronged approach to the conference this year. Prong #1: Librarian Stuff I could go on about the stuff I want to hit, but really this […]
School Librarian Corner: Dirty Books. No, Literally, Dirty Books
The other day I read a Facebook post from a fellow school librarian in the midst of an end-of-the-year inventory. This librarian said it gets kind of gross when you touch all the books in the library. Tell me about it. If you’ve ever handled a bunch of library books, you can probably identify. Your […]
The June Newsletter Has Ideas
I recently sent out the June installment of FROM THE DESK OF 100 SCOPE NOTES. It includes a book recommendation, a podcast recommendation, and other, more secret things. Click here to read it. I send out this newsletter once a month – want to su...
One Star Review Guess Who? (#68)
Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? These are gross books. They tend to sell a lot of these at school book fairs, but they are NOT quality material for children. There are lots of misspelled words and the manners are crude to say the least. […]
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