MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2013
Earlier this week I came across an interesting, though heartbreaking older post by Debbie Reese regarding her experience being racially profiled. If you are not familiar with Debbie Reese, she runs a blog titled American Indians in Children’s Literature where she examines the various ways that American Indians are depicted in the culture at large, […]
Watermark, the fourth installment of the YA fantasy Phantom Island series by Krissi Dallas is finally releasing this fall! If you haven’t jumped on board this island adventure full of magic, mystery, and romance, now is your chance. Enter to win an autographed Phantom Island trilogy pack, an autographed copy of Watermark when it releases, […]
Our mission is libraries and teen services, but TLT is very public librarian heavy. Christie and I, although awesome, work for the same library system here in Texas. Heather works at a public library in Illinois. And Stephanie works in Louisiana. She also just had a baby, she is blogging less and changing a ton […]
It’s Krissi Dallas Day! Cuyler (no longer a teen so I can’t call him our teen reviewer) interviews YA author Kriss Dallas and geeks out
Author Interview, Cuyler Creech, Krissi Dallas, The Phantom Island series
|Cuyler Creech, who writes under the name Gale Ryan, and Krissi Dallas Before we begin, I’d like to take a minute to just give major props to the wonderfully amazing author-extraordinaire: Mrs. Krissi Dallas. I discovered Krissi when my aunt and I traveled to Montgomery County, Texas for the Montgomery County Book Festival 2013. We […]
The year is halfway over and we’re tracking trends. So, what are we seeing? We’ll be tracking it right here. But I can’t read everything (even though I try!) and we need your help! Leave us a comment or Tweet us at #trendwatch2013. We need to come up with 10 signficant trends in #yalit for […]
Things I Never Learned in Library School: The Backside of Being Involved
ALSC, committee work, GLBTRT, SRRT, Things I Never Learned in Library School, YALSA
|Librarians are unique in that they get to their degrees in a variety of different ways. Not everyone steps to their master’s right after undergrad- I know I didn’t, and I wasn’t the only one in my courses who took a roundabout path, either. That Guy and I married right after our undergrad graduation, and […]
Since today we are talking with an audio book narrator, Mike Paine, I thought I would do a Flashback post and rerun this post with Bernadette Dunne, the narrator of Son by Lois Lowry. More than 1 point of view helps us develop more insight into the creation of an audio book. That’s my story […]
I want to shed some light on what it takes to create an audio book production from a narrator’s first hand perspective and also examine what makes an audio book character come to life. When I audition for a prospective audio book production, I choose a project that has a story that needs to not […]
Take 5: Spies Like Us
Ally Carter, Collection Development, Reader's Advisory, Spies, Spies and Prejudice, Take 5, Talia Vance, The Gallagher Girls
|Ever since reading The Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter, I am obsessed with spies. In fact, since it is audio book month, I will share with you that I’d Tell You I’d Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You is the first audio book the Tween and I listened to in the car. […]
TPIB: Secret Agent Man for the Summer
Collaborative Summer Reading Program, Movies, Secret Agents, Spies, TPIB
|A lot of librarians I’ve talked to who are working within the Collaborative Summer Reading Program are doing ground things for “Dig Up A Good Book”- touch a truck programs, digging animals, etc. And for “Beneath The Surface” there are a lot of spa treatment programs, mermaids, and technology. I must be weird because my […]
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