MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2010
Well, my apologies to everyone. Twitter, for some reason, has kicked me off. I’m very mad. So my apologies to everyone who was following me. There’s nothing to be done.
Howdy folks. A quickie glance at how the library conference works during the winter months. Basically I just made the video so that I could show the cute robot. Remember that tomorrow at 7:45 a.m. I will be twittering the results of the Media Awards for one and all to see over at @FuseEight. Follow […]
You know, I’ve learned something at ALA this year. A little something about the conference floor. Here’s the thing… when you’re at an ALA Conference and you want to go to the conference floor, it may surprise you to learn that the floor isn’t open until Saturday morning. The conference begins on Thursday or so, […]
There are many reasons to be gleeful about attending ALA in Boston, but one reason that stuck in my mind particularly had to do with ducks. Ducks in a row, to be precise. Wandering about the streets of Boston I was impressed by the lovely architecture. Note the Starbucks. Even it looks classy in that […]
So I am here! Arrived! In one piece! This year I am now official "The Press". Yup. And with that comes a certain sense of obligation. In brief, I feel required to blog as much as possible, whilst also running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Now since today is Friday, not […]
Furious George Goes Bananas: A Primate Parody By Michael Rex G.P. Putnam’s Sons (an imprint of Penguin) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0399254338 Ages 4-8 On shelves May 13, 2010 There is no feeling in the world quite like returning to a picture book you loved as a kid, only to discover how weird or disturbing that book […]
Well folks, I would write you an intricate highly convoluted blog post today, but as you read this I am probably hopping on a bus (a Bolt Bus, no less) bound for beautiful Boston, MA. That’s the good news. The bad news is that last night’s fine and fancy Kidlit Drink Night was so successful […]
Well, it’s almost that time. We’re all gearing up to get ready to visit Boston for the Midwinter American Library Association Conference. I myself will be hopping a bus there sometime this coming Thursday afternoon. All plans have been formalized. Empty bags are packed for the filling. And I will be reporting, video blogging, tweeting, […]
Zeus: King of the Gods (Olympians series) By George O’Connor A Neal Porter Book First Second (an imprint of Roaring Brook) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-431-8 On shelves now. Girl walks into my library. I’m putting her age at around nine, maybe ten. Asks if I have any books on Ancient Greece. Turns out the kid is […]
Someone recently blogged that they had seen someone at the last Midwinter ALA Conference wearing a t-shirt that simply read, “But is it distinguished?” As librarian in-jokes go, I think that is by far one of the subtlest. Determining the distinguished from the merely awesome is no mean feat, and my heart goes out to […]