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If you haven't heard it yet,
Horn Book has a new podcast. I made a small contribution to this podcast from June 20, 2016 (Hbook Podcast 1.17). You can hear me at the very end with my brief review of
Have You Seen Elephant? Creating a 30-second audio review is not as easy as it
sounds!
I'm so glad they allowed me to participate.
I won't be posting here, but I'll be tweeting from
@shelfemployed, and I'll be live-blogging for the
ALSC Blog. If you're
#alaleftbehind, or interested in all things bookish and librarianish, follow along.
Here's a little fun for the day and two great dad books.
If you're on Twitter: In honor of Father's Day, Barnes and Noble
@bnbuzz is using the hashtag
#DadBooks to solicit groan-worthy puns and corny dad jokes based on well-known books. Be sure to check it out or join in the pun.
Here are a few (with links to their posts):
Oh, the Places You'll MowThe Girl Who's Certainly not Getting a Dragon TattooGone Grill 
If you're on Pinterest, check out my board, "
Comic strips featuring books." I've been collecting comic strips that feature books and libraries for the last several years. If you have a good comic strip that I've missed, please feel free to send it to me and I'll pin it.
And lastly, since Father's Day is tomorrow, I'll share two of my favorite "dad" picture books.
- My Dad by Anthony Browne (Macmillan, 2010) is a funny, homage to the classic jack-of-all-trades kind of dad. On each page, tribute is paid to the bathrobe-clad dad's many great qualities. The illustrations are wonderful - even as he is depicted as a fish or an owl, he retains his brown, plaid bathrobe. You can see them here [http://us.macmillan.com/mydad/AnthonyBrowne].
- Tell Me a Tattoo Story by Alison McGhee and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler (Chronicle, 2016) is lovingly written and illustrated. A young tattooed dad weaves a tale for his son using his tattoos. A sweet story that should appeal to many young families.
I don't always write about books and libraries. I like to ponder things that I find curious or interesting, and sometimes I write about them as well.
BonBon Break, "an online magazine for modern moms," has purchased my article "If It Doesn’t Have a Face, Will They Eat It?" It began appearing on their site yesterday.
The article is a satirical commentary on the current marketing trend of anthropomorphizing common fruits and vegetables with comic representations and new names, e.g., Mighties, Halos. Sadly, it doesn't include my photos (I admit to being an amateur in photography), so I will include them here. The article has nothing to do with libraries, but you might get a chuckle from it, and I hope you read it.
If you missed my last article on BonBon Break, "Five Things You Didn't Know about Librarians," it's linked here and in the sidebar.
I'm over at the
ALSC Blog today - complaining about stuffed animals.
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Feel free to join me if you're so inclined.
In other news, I hope you've been downloading your free books from SYNC. Two free books are available each week beginning on Thursday. The books for that week are available for one week only. Books are yours - forever - no strings attached.
"SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens. Starting May 5th 2016, SYNC will give away two complete audiobook downloads a week - pairs of high interest titles, based on weekly themes. Sign up for email or text alerts and be first to know when new titles are available to download at
www.audiobooksync.com."
Today is the last day to get Zac & Mia by A.J. Betts, and I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. Tomorrow, it's How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon (with a full cast narration!) and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson.
Below are the titles for the next few weeks (there are more to come after these!):
Just a reminder that it's Children's Book Week. #cbw16
There are plenty of resources available from the
Children's Book Week Digital Toolkit. I like to order the actual posters, but sadly, I forgot this year. The good news is that there are plenty of last-minute event kits and activity sheets available for download [
http://www.bookweekonline.com/activities].
Also, be sure to download this year's official CBW bookmark with art by Cece Bell. [
http://www.bookweekonline.com/bookmark]
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You can also add a Twibbon to your Twitter profile pic. (If you don't want it to completely obscure your profile pic, you will have an opportunity to shrink it.) [
http://twibbon.com/Support/Children39s-Book-Week]
National Library Week begins today!
If you want to show your support of libraries this week, enter the American Library Association's contest, and help spread the word about all the great ways that your library helps people in your community. Contest details and other ways to show your love of libraries can be found at: [
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/national-library-week] 
Today is my last day as a Jersey Shore librarian.
It's been a great time, but I'm headed South for a warmer clime.
When I post next, I will be a Florida librarian.
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Happy Valentine's Day! I know it was yesterday, but a holiday about Love should last so much longer than one day....how about every day? No? Well, we can start with a week. ;)
Valentine's Day is all about the love we share and feel towards those most important to us. Love is very important to me, to share with others....especially those that I don't know, because everyone needs it. A truth that is always good to share.
Today I want to share something with you, an original drawing...the first original drawing of my Mermaid Portrait series for my upcoming coloring book.
Here's what you need to do to be entered into the Giveaway:
♥︎ Go to my Pinterest page and Follow
♥︎ Pin something you like from my Pinterest page
♥︎ Share here or on my Facebook Page a link to the Pin you liked
The more you Pin, the more your name is entered!
This will be running through the entire week of Valentine's. Today February 15th through Sunday, February 21st. All entries AFTER midnight February 21st will not make it to the list.
Winner will be announce Monday February 22nd!winner announced on facebook and here on the blog. winner will also be contacted via message/email
Happy Pinning! ♥︎
From First Second Books comes a new series about a young girl and her artistic alter ego!
I'm back from vacation and blogging for
ALSC today.
Click on over to the
ALSC Blog and check out the list of eight new sites added to ALA's
Great Websites for Kids, the online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children. [
http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2016/02/eight-new-sites-added-to-great-websites-for-kids/]
Have a great weekend!
As the motion picture industry has multiple awards including the Academy, Screen Actors Guild, and Golden Globe, so too, does the publishing industry. In books for young people, the best known are the Caldecott and Newbery Medals, which were awarded this month, and I wrote about earlier. ( See the complete list of winners here: [http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2016/01/american-library-association-announces-2016-youth-media-award-winners])
There are however, numerous other awards including (but not limited to) the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Cybils Awards (chosen by bloggers and for which I have twice been a judge), The Schneider Family Book Award (which recognizes excellence in portraying the disability experience), the Coretta Scott King Awards (recognizing books by African Americans that reflect the African American experience), and the Pura Belpré Awards (honoring books that celebrate the Latino cultural experience).
Also recently awarded were the Sydney Taylor Book Awards for children and teens. These awards are given to books that "authentically portray the Jewish experience." You can read the official press release here: [http://jewishlibraries.org/blog.php?id=315]
Many schoolchildren are introduced to the Jewish experience only through Holocaust education. The Sydney Taylor Awards recognize all aspects of Jewish culture.
The Association of Jewish Libraries asked for my assistance in promoting this year's winners, and I am happy to do so. A complete list of winners and honor books is below.
If you haven't read any of the winners of these or other awards celebrating the many facets of our diverse world, consider adding several to your TBR pile.The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers:
The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers:
- Adam & Thomas by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green with illustrations by Philippe Dumas (Seven Stories Press)
The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Teen Readers:
Sydney Taylor Honor Books for Younger Readers:
- Everybody Says Shalom by Leslie Kimmelman with illustrations by Talitha Shipman (Random House) Shanghai Sukkah by Heidi Smith Hyde with illustrations by Jing Jing Tsong (Kar-Ben Publishing)
Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Older Readers:
Sydney Taylor Honor Books for Teen Readers:
- Serendipity’s Footsteps by Suzanne Nelson (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House) Stones on a Grave by Kathy Kacer (Orca Book Publishers)
Note:
Keep watch for the 2015
Cybils Awards winners. They will be announced on Valentine's Day, February 14th.
Watch the Golden Globes last night? Well, it's award season for books, too!
The
big news today for librarians, parents, teachers, and fans of #kidlit, is the announcement of the
American Library Association's Youth Media Awards. I'll be driving to work as the live webcast begins, but I'll be checking in as soon as I get to work!
You can also follow the Twitter hashtag
#ALAyma for live updates.
I hope to see a few of my favorites!
If everyone adhered to this great advice from Dav Pilkey, there would be no need to call attention to
Banned Books Week! Grab a good book and celebrate your freedom to read.
The annual Summer Reading Club season at the public library is winding down, and it's time to head out for my annual "take the kids back to college" road trip.
See you in two weeks!
(or on Twitter
@shelfemployed)
I'm off to the annual American Library Association Conference today! For conference news, updates, and insight, be sure to follow the
ALSC Blog. I (and many other ALSC members) will be live blogging from the conference on the ALSC Blog. If you prefer, follow the hashtag #alaac15 on Twitter.
Cheers!
If you're looking for useful, fun, or educational websites to share with your children, students, or library patrons, I urge you to check out
Great Websites for Kids,
sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
I'm over at the ALSC Blog today with a post on my recent stint as a "virtual teacher." Please hop over and read it.
I've been reading (and writing!), but no reviews for you today, just a few announcements:
Today is the start of Scholastic’s #IReadYA week - a celebration of all things YA. In support of this week, Scholastic will be holding daily challenges beginning today and running through Friday the 22nd. By participating in the challenges, you earn the chance to win #IReadYA prizes including: #IReadYA tote bags, tumblers and free YA books!
The fun daily challenges range from describing a YA book only using words that start with the same letter (e.g. Harry helps Hogwarts, hefting horcruxes), to sharing YA reaction videos/memes.
Some YA authors will also be participating with impromptu Twitter chats, Tumblr posts and more.
To become a part of #IReadYA week and take part in the daily challenges, click here:
Scholastic’s #IReadYA Week And on the topic of YA books, I attended a Penguin Random House Book Buzz event on Friday.
Library of Souls, the final book in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series will be coming out in September. The final cover will be revealed this month. And coming next spring, is
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiars, the Tim Burton movie based on the first book in the series.
And finally, today, as it is every Monday, you can visit the
Nonfiction Monday blog to see what's new in nonfiction for kids and teens.
Baby announcement!
March is always a difficult time for me to be blogging here because I spend many hours working on
KidLit Celebrates Women's History Month! I do hope you'll check it out. We spend a lot of time curating and maintaining the site, and our contributors are phenomenal authors, artists, librarians and bloggers that share a passion for women's history and children's literature. So, if my posts are sparse in March, you know the reason.
That being said, I have been busy in other areas. Today, you can find me just goofing around - blogging on the
ALSC Blog. I write a monthly piece there and try to keep it fun!
Oh, and big newsfor Wendy Mass fans - there's going to be another book in the Willow Falls series - more on that after I've read it!
As the years go by, I get less and less comfortable choosing “best of” books at year’s end. There’s no way that I can read all of the deserving books, and what I may find moving or amusing may not resonate with others. However, with that being said, and in no particular order,
here are my personal favorites of 2014:
Juvenile Fiction
Young Adult Fiction
Adult Fiction
Juvenile Nonfiction
Picture Books
Audio Books
Graphic Novels
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I'm on vacation. See you next week. ;)
Happy Halloween!
Today I'll be Medusa, hosting the annual preschool Halloween storytime and parade at the library, but on the way to work, I'll be enjoying Neil Gaiman's Halloween gift to the world, Click-Clack the Rattlebag.
Have a great day.
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Just some odds and ends for a Wednesday ...
- Today is the final day to nominate books for the 2014 Cybils. These are the awards for us, the blog writers and blog readers. Please nominate your favorites. I'm a judge this year. I'd love to see what's tops on your list!
- Please be sure to enter my contest for a free copy of My Zombie Hamster by Havelock McCreely. The publisher was nice enough to offer me a free copy, so why not take advantage of the chance to win it for your child, school, or library? It's easy to enter - just a comment on the appropriate blog post will do. Details here.
- In many states, today is the last day to register to vote in the November election. If you want to earn the right to complain about the way things are, you should vote. You really should.
- Did you know that I'm a member of ALA's Great Websites for Kids Committee? We spend a lot of time curating and evaluating great websites for kids. If you haven't tried the site, please check it out - Great Websites for Kids. If you have any comments or suggestions for new additions to the site, I'd love to hear them.
That's it. Have a good day, all.
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If you're on Twitter: In honor of Father's Day, Barnes and Noble @bnbuzz is using the hashtag #DadBooks to solicit groan-worthy puns and corny dad jokes based on well-known books. Be sure to check it out or join in the pun. 
If you're on Pinterest, check out my board, "Comic strips featuring books." I've been collecting comic strips that feature books and libraries for the last several years. If you have a good comic strip that I've missed, please feel free to send it to me and I'll pin it.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 2/12/2016
From First Second Books comes a new series about a young girl and her artistic alter ego!
As the motion picture industry has multiple awards including the Academy, Screen Actors Guild, and Golden Globe, so too, does the publishing industry. In books for young people, the best known are the Caldecott and Newbery Medals, which were awarded this month, and I wrote about earlier. ( See the complete list of winners here: [http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2016/01/american-library-association-announces-2016-youth-media-award-winners])
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