“Well, they’re my favorites, I can’t help if I like what I like.” Back in July, Grace Lin shared a picture from her local public library on Twitter. When I saw it, my heart sank. I felt a shock of embarrassed sadness. And then I just felt fucking mad. First, imagine Grace Lin is your library patron!…
Babies Need Words! It is critical that as librarians, we all work on bridging the 3o million word gap. I know. When you hear 30 million words it seems almost insurmountable and certainly it seems out of your hand as a librarian. But the fact is, we can start bridging that gap in our every day programs…
We just wrapped up our Spring Break. Last year, as you might remember, we experimented with doing a week worth of mostly school-age programming. We had mixed results, but I’m glad we tried it. You can read all about what we did during that week here. But I was going to be out of town…
Debbie Reese is my blogging heroine, my blogging role model. If there’s one blog I wish my blog could be like, it’s Reese’s American Indians in Children’s Literature. She was the model for what I wanted this blog to be like. She says things people don’t always want to hear, whether it’s about Little House…
