Library Politics
I don’t often get on a librarian soap-box, but here are a couple of nice links I found today: Not About the Buildings is a grassroots campaign to save the branches of the Providence Public Library. You...
View ArticleLibrary Mascot Cage Match
Library Mascot Cage Match: an Unshelved Collection by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum Unshelved is a library comic strip, featuring the librarians of Mallville going about their daily work. My internet...
View ArticleThe Great Piratical Rumbustification
The Great Piratical Rumbustification. The Librarian and the Robbers. by Margaret Mahy. Pictures by Quentin Blake. Margaret Mahy is world-famous children’s author from New Zealand whom I have somehow...
View ArticleBeyond Duct Tape: Teen Programming
My colleagues were asking for my notes from the recent Michigan Library Association conference, so here’s my notes from an inspiring program on teen programming from one of our former interns and, you...
View ArticleNinja Librarians and the Hero’s Guide to Being an Outlaw
The Accidental Keyhand. Ninja Librarians Book 1. by Jen Swann Downey. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2014. Dorrie and Marcus, two stage sword-fighting siblings from Passaic, New Jersey, are chasing their...
View ArticleThe Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. Roc, 2015. As the story opens, our heroine, Irene, is disguised as a maid at a boys’ boarding school, scrubbing late at night in order for a chance to achieve...
View ArticleThe Lost Books: The Scroll of Kings
I was so excited to learn that Sarah Prineas – author of the Magic Thief series and the Winterling series, both middle grade, as well as Ash & Bramble and Rose & Thorn – has started a new...
View ArticleThe Wild Book by Juan Villoro
Here’s a rare middle grade book in translation, from an award-winning author of Mexican literary fiction. The Wild Book by Juan Villoro. Translated by Lawrence Schimel. Yonder Books, 2017. Juan’s...
View ArticleTwo Fantasies and a Truth
Well, technically, two fantasy books and a nonfiction – I do believe that fiction can hold just as much truth as nonfiction – but going for the catchier title. Here’s catching up on reviews of some...
View ArticlePicture Books: Odd Dog Out and Ronan the Librarian
Here I am belatedly reviewing some picture books that came my way last year, because just because 2020 was rough doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t hear about these fun books, both stressing the power of...
View ArticleCozy Middle Grade Fantasies: The Lost Library and the House of the Lost on...
Here are two lovely, cozy Cybils-nominated middle grade fantasy books that are perfect for reading aloud as well as solo. Remarkably, both of them achieve this while being set in the aftermath of...
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