Natasha's Adventures in Library Land

#DiverseVoices coincides with #CelebrateJackie. jacquelinewoodson just won the nationalbook award for Young People’s Literature for Brown Girl Dreaming from penguinteen. We all love this books and are glad so many are responding to it and the lyrical aspects to Jackie’s writing. 

Short answer: Yes — reading enhances connectivity in the brain. But readers of fiction? They’re a special breed.

"Here are just some of the wonderful authors and artists who will be included in the anthology: Kathleen Alcalá, Giannina Braschi, Pablo Brescia, Ana Castillo, Daína Chaviano, Junot Díaz, Carlos Hernandez, Ernest Hogan, Adál Maldonado, Carmen Maria Machado, Alejandro Morales, Daniel José Older, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Alex Rivera, Sabrina Vourvoulias."

I also think this is a good time to add that I find it incredibly rude that other types of librarians scoff at school librarians. Girl, I got my MLIS

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I queued this on my library’s Facebook page as my birthday gift to me. I’m so happy.

ok I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this but I keep thinking about the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and how the best character in the whole story is only briefly mentioned. We’re given such limited amount of information about the guy that sells Jack the beans....

Also, if you read Fables you would know that Jack was just the prime example of white male privilege and just an all around dick who happens to get lucky ALL the time.

*puts on detective hat* Hmmm…something about this just doesn’t add up…

Margaret Atwood goes up to the counter, but the Starbucks is no longer serving coffee. In fact, coffee has ceased to be manufactured. Atwood recalls the taste of coffee— sweet and bitter, a little melancholy— but she can’t quite recreate it perfectly. It’s gone, like the...

Etsy Art Print Poster. Just the thing for your break room.