The Horn Book Magazine, 1959

I'm in Santa Fe at the state library doing homework for one of my MLIS courses. Setting that work aside for a few minutes to peruse the ...

Another pair of eyeglasses...

I am enjoying my courses as a student San Jose State's School of Library and Information Science . Prior to this, I felt proficient usin...

AWESIINYENSAG, Wiigwaas Press, and the Minnesota's Best Read for 2011

This is terrific news! Awesiinyensag , a book published by Heid and Louise Erdrich's Wiigwaas Press, was selected as Minnesota's Bes...

Julie Luecke on Nora Raleigh Baskin's THE SUMMER BEFORE BOYS

Julie Luecke, an Associate Professor of Education at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, wrote to tell me about Nora Raleigh Baskin'...

Gertrude Doederlein's LIVING WITH OUR CHILDREN

Scarlett wrote to tell me about a blog post at Awful Library Books in which Holly Hibler (the blogger) wrote about Gertrude Doederlein'...

Mercer Meyer's JUST ME AND MY MOM

Bummer! (Using that word dates me, eh?!) Susan Santee-Buenger at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire wrote to tell me about this page in ...

New book! GRANDPA'S GIRLS by Nicola Campbell

One of my favorite authors, Nicola Campbell, has a new book out. Titled Grandpa's Girls , I can't wait to see it! Here's the blu...