YA author Maureen Johnson challenged her Twitter followers “to take a well-known book, then to imagine the author of that book was of the opposite gender, or was genderqueer, and imagine what that cover might look like.”
Character: Paddington Bear
Career dream: World traveler. The bear was always interested in learning more about his Peruvian origins, and finding out just how he came to London’s Paddington station. Career reality: Purveyor of artisanal marmalade. World travel costs money, and Paddington…
I believe passionately in libraries and have been horrified by the prospect of closures throughout the system as part of local government cuts. I tried to make a useful comic to help but it wound up being a bit… flawed?
Thanks to Book Patrol for the link!
Going to the Tribeca Film Festival? Check out the trailer for Out of Print, a documentary about the transition from print to the digital age directed by Vivienne Roumani (a former librarian) and narrated by Meryl Streep.
“Jeff Bezos, Ray Bradbury, Scott Turow, Jeffrey Toobin, parents, students, educators, scientists – all highlight how this revolution is changing everything about the printed word – and changing us.”
Reading is not purely academic and I hope that there is resurgence of positivity toward reading. Young people are getting distracted at their most distractible time—middle school, and never returning to reading. But they are eager participants when they are hooked. So we have to be more adventurous in the ways we engage in reading instruction and advocacy.Library Journal Mover & Shaker Kirby McCurtis,”Creating Community: Up Close with Youth Librarian Kirby McCurtis”
