Checkout the latest trailer for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The movie will be released August 21.
The Great Summer Graphic Novel Giveaway
The deadline to enter is 11:59 p.m. EST tonight (June 19)! (via 100 Scope Notes)
“We’ve heard time and again from the educators we work with that one of the biggest challenges to helping kids become strong readers is the desperate lack of books that are culturally relevant to these kids’ lives,” said Kyle Zimmer, president and CEO of First Book. “One of the best ways to turn children into readers is to give them stories with heroes and experiences they can relate to.” -“The Stories for All Project: First Ever Market Solution to the Lack of Diversity in Kids’ Books”
Tumblrarians, heading to ALA?
Official invite to come, but here are the relevant details:
Library Journal & Tumblr Present
Set Phasers to Internet
an ALA tumblarian meet up
(with free drinks)Saturday 6/29 7pm
Local 22
22 East Hubbard Street, Chicago
cosponsored by TogatherThere will be a raffle. The event’s official hashtag is #laserfingers. BE THERE OR BE ON SOME OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK. (Are there gifs there? I thought not.)
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Poetry does have a tremendous impact on kids…It has a power with kids that other kinds of writing might not. A poem can pack a lot of emotional punch in just a few lines. Children’s poetry is typically not more than one page or two pages long. And yet, within that one or two pages, kids can get a really strong positive emotional response that encourages them to want to read another poem.Kenn Nesbitt, quoted in “Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate”
A California library has introduced a kid lit vending machine. It holds 220 books, and patrons only need their library cards to access them.
If each book comes with a mini bag of pretzels, I’m in!
Just a few of the examples of weird book graffiti resident librarian Rita Meade has found at her branch. When Book Graffiti Goes Bad
Salinger, a documentary about author J.D. Salinger, will premiere in September. Checkout the trailer.
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I hate textbooks. When I was a teacher librarian, I engaged in a Sisyphean cycle that included the ordering, distribution, inventory, transfer, repair, storage, and subsequent collection of heavy, sticky, and often obscenely vandalized tertiary sources. One of my first library clerks literally cried when it came time to circulate textbooks. I stoically comforted her as I put my shoulder to another heaving cart. Students checked out textbooks with the same grim resignation they might show when getting a shot. Really, does anybody except publishers like them? Apparently not.Teacher Librarians Are Key to the Digital Shift”
At a Library in Brooklyn, Rare Books and Coffee
In addition to lending books from small presses or by little-known writers, the Mellow Pages Library in Bushwick, Brooklyn, is a reading room and gathering spot.
