July 2012
31 posts
“Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle...”
– Shel Silverstein (via chelseyphilpot)
Jul 31st
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Jul 30th
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Jul 29th
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Friday Links
The Horn Book Magazine’s Elissa Gershowitz’s remembers Margaret Mahy. An NPR poll wants your help to whittling down the best YA Books written…ever! “Socrates said ‘Know thyself.’ And now you do know yourself better than you did, and your work is getting richer and deeper, and it has such an exciting, emotional quality. I know you don’t need and...
Jul 27th
ANCIENT LIFE-SIZE LION STATUES BAFFLE SCIENTISTS →
nypl: Two sculptures of life-size lions, each weighing about 5 tons in antiquity, have been discovered in what is now Turkey, with archaeologists perplexed over what the granite cats were used for. They were guarding an ancient library, clearly.
Jul 26th
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 20th
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Friday Links
An argument for a “bookless library” in the New Republic. Remembering getting letters? As in letters in the mail? As in a postman or woman coming to your door? Remember how cool that was? Now The Rumpus, an online literary magazine, is offering kids a chance to get a note from their favorite authors (Adam Rex, Susan Patron, and Rebecca Stead to name a few) twice a month. Names from...
Jul 20th
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Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman Sing an Ode to Libraries “Without libraries, we’d be dumb…libraries are our friends. We should take good care of them, because without libraries we’d be D-U-M.”
Jul 19th
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A history of Summer Reading for kids, via the... →
Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 16th
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Friday Links
Curious what books made the “best swamp survival stories” cut?  The Horn Book Magazine Mind the Gap Awards are out. Flavorwire (once again) has a great slide show. This one is a collection of vintage photos featuring kids reading. YA author Marie Rutkoski examines “The Nature of Cinderella” in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Because we all need a laugh on a Friday: You Chose Wrong, a spin on...
Jul 13th
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Jul 12th
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“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you...”
– E.B. White (via chelseyphilpot)
Jul 11th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 9th
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Friday Links!
“The library in any school should have a dedicated librarian or teacher/librarian, be well resourced, and welcoming, the heart of every school,” says Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse. One hundred fifty years ago, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first told his tale of adventure and a world known as Wonderland to a little girl named Alice and her siblings. “Bookish Getaways” (including...
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Jul 3rd
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Jul 2nd
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl (via chelseyphilpot)
Jul 1st
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