When You Reach Me Reminder
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is out today.
Go to read that thing do.
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Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Kirkus, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on BlueSky at: @fuse8.bsky.social
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Yeah baby, should be a national holiday. I just got notification that the 7 copies I’ve ordered are making their way to reach me.
Thanks to your posts on it (and the premise itself), I don’t think I’ve ever been so anxious to get my hands on a book by an author I’ve never read anything by before!
I found it on the shelf at Barnes & Noble yesterday and sat right down in the store and read it. It blew me away. I was expecting greatness but instead discovered perfection. Hopefully my local bookstore gets my copy in today so I can read it again. Thanks so much for the early recommendation.
So, you’re the head children’s librarian at NYPL. You love this book and have been pushing it for months. It comes out today.
So why can’t I find it in the NYPL catalog? I want to slap a request down on this thing so that as soon as it shows up in the library it’s whisked off to my branch and taken with me to jury duty next week. But no, I am thwarted.
I hope When You Reach Me reaches everybody soon! I read it a couple of weeks ago for review purposes and then my 10-year-old daughter did. Neither one of us could put it down–and we still find ourselves talking about it. Maybe I’m jumping the gun but it seems to have Newbery written all over it.
For the sake of clarification, though I would love to be the head children’s librarian at NYPL, I am but a lowly cog in a great big machine. I have no ability to purchase. Worse, NYPL is so big that new books are almost never added until at least a month or two down the line. Add in the fact that we have a whole new cataloging system and, well . . . .
Okay, so I think you’re soooo cool I tried to promote you. Having less power to do so than you have purchasing power. I hang my head in shame.
And I still grumble that I can’t get it from the library yet. (Brooklyn’s not being any more helpful.)
Thanks! And have you tried Queens?
We should have our copies any day now! I’m getting somewhat impatient.
Glowing with my day-old ordering power, I’ve added it to my next order. Fortunately other librarians in my county are ahead of me and I have it on hold.
Our copies are in PROCESSING! So excited.
Thanks so much for the reminder; it was in my to-be-read pile and I just read it over the weekend. What a wonderful, wonderful book!