Ypulse Book Essentials: 'What It Is,' 'Nite Runner,' Booktalking Tips From The Ya Ya Ya's
Posted by alli on 10-20-2008
High praise For Lynda Barry's What It Is (I'm a big fan too.) (Omnivoracious)
- A vampire book a guy can appreciate (Guys Lit Wire reviews Nite Runner by Max Turner)
- Booktalking tips (From the ladies at The Ya Ya Ya's. This is super helpful, thanks!)
- More shining-star awesomeness for The Hunger Games (You know I don't usually tell people what to read but honestly…) (Powell's)
- Read Roger (doesn't buy the Beacon Street Girls weight loss story reported in the New York Times, reg. required)
- Brian at the ALSC (suggests that librarians try to imagine life as a patron. We could improve services and sensitivity. Imagine that.)
- 'First Lady Laura Bush recognizes top five libraries' (With the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. Yay for Damriscotta, Maine. We were there this summer!) (School Library Journal)
- 5 million books to be put into cereal boxes (the Spoonful of Stories program along with Cheerios will be giving books away to hungry breakfast-cereal-eating families starting this fall.) (press release)
- Nikki Giovanni talks to NPR (about hip-hop and how children's literature is like folk art.)
- Wicked is wicked good. (I just started reading it and that's what we say in Maine when we like something. Gregory Maguire discusses Wicked, his latest, A Lion Among Men and his involvement with Children's Literature New England.) (Seacoast Online)
