A quick post for a spring Friday. Picture a bouncing, running, thrilled-to-be-in-a-bookstore little boy, no more than three and a half, entering the store for the first time. He spies the... Read the rest of this post
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Alison Morris is a gradute of Smith College, where ten years ago she earned both a degree in Education and Child Study and an elementary teaching certificate before falling in love with bookselling. Since then she has made a name for herself nationally as an expert reader, buyer, and recommender of books for readers of all ages. Currently in her eighth year as the Children's Book Buyer for Wellesley Booksmith, she writes a children's book blog called "ShelfTalker" for the website of Publishers Weekly magazine (www.publishersweekly.com/shelftalker) in which she pontificates on all things literary, artistic and mercantile. Alison is an active member of both the Association of Booksellers for Children and the New England Children's Booksellers Advisory Council. In 2000 she was awarded the Farrar, Straus & Giroux New Bookseller Award.
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Alison Morris is a gradute of Smith College, where ten years ago she earned both a degree in Education and Child Study and an elementary teaching certificate before falling in love with bookselling. Since then she has made a name for herself nationally as an expert reader, buyer, and recommender of books for readers of all ages. Currently in her eighth year as the Children's Book Buyer for Wellesley Booksmith, she writes a children's book blog called "ShelfTalker" for the website of Publishers Weekly magazine (www.publishersweekly.com/shelftalker) in which she pontificates on all things literary, artistic and mercantile. Alison is an active member of both the Association of Booksellers for Children and the New England Children's Booksellers Advisory Council. In 2000 she was awarded the Farrar, Straus & Giroux New Bookseller Award.
By: Alison Morris,
on 4/30/2010
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