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2011: The Year of the Raven
Quoth the raven: What the heck? At this point I’m getting a little suspicious. You see, every year I like to keep track of “trends” in the world of children’s literature. For example, back in 2006...
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2011 Booktalk Pairings
Children’s librarians have many weapons at their disposal that allow them to entice children young and old with delicious literature. The booktalk may be the best of the bunch. Before I joined the...
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Trendwatch 2012: A Cluster of Chloes, a Journey of Jackalopes
My buddy and fellow blogger Travis Jonker sent me the following images recently: What are you looking at? Just a couple shots from the book Oddfellow’s Orphanage by Emily Winfield Martin. The book is...
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2015: The Year of the Spiders and the Flies
Let’s face facts. When doing a trendwatch piece, it’s almost impossible to top Travis Jonker’s 2014 bit of brilliance 2014: The Year of the Whale. Prior to that piece I had done The Year of the Chloe,...
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Won’t Somebody PLEASE Think of the Pixels?
The other day I asked my husband, “Am I a Millennial?” “No,” he said. “You’re right between the Millennials and the Generation Xers. You don’t really belong to either.” That’s about right....
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