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Virtual Author Visit with Saadia Faruqi
Last night our library hosted a virtual author visit on Zoom with Saadia Faruqi! Saadia is the author of the easy reader series, Yasmin, about a second grade Pakistani-American girl living her best life! She’s also the co-author of the upcoming novel A Place At the Table with Laura Shovan being published on…
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Virtual Author Visits
Last night was a busy night for me as I attended a couple of virtual author visits! I attended the Book Expo Children’s Author Breakfast turned virtual dinner with Judy Blume, Natalie Portman, Misty Copeland, Raj Haldar, Marie Lu, and Kwame Mbalia. It was so interesting to hear each of…
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Slice of Life Day 2: Meeting Authors
I’ve been lucky in my life to meet countless children’s and young adult authors. Granted, being a librarian and book blogger does have it’s advantages! But I also met authors as a kid at school visits, the public library, and at other programs and festivals. Our school district had Robin…
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Kwame Alexander Author Visit
I got the sheer joy of seeing Kwame Alexander at Children’s Book World in Haverford, PA last night. He’s on his Rebound tour that will hit thirty cities in a 45 foot bus and traveling with his best friend, and also a musician who presents with him and of course… his…
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Jacqueline Woodson at the Free Library of Philadelphia
If you know anything about me at all, you’ll probably pick up that I’m a planner – I like to know what’s happening, when it’s happening and what is expected of me. So when I scrolling through Twitter yesterday morning and saw that Jacqueline Woodson (yes, the Jacqueline Woodson) was going…
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Skype Author Visit
It’s been an eventful week already! We have a pretty large grant due on Friday, we had our first middle school program of the school year on Monday night, I spent yesterday and this morning at Penn State for a committee meeting, (quickly) drove back to the library for a…
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Kutztown University Children's Literature Conference
I spent this past Saturday, as I had previously mentioned, at the Kutztown University Children’s Literature Conference. It’s a great place to hear from authors and illustrators about their writing process, how they became writers and their upcoming work. This year’s presenters included Mara Rockliff, William Low, Elisha Cooper, and…
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David Lubar Author Visit
Last night, children’s and young adult author, David Lubar came to visit our library where 75 excited patrons got the chance to hear him talk about how he became a writer, great tips for beginning writers, asked some wonderful questions and got books signed by the author himself. This was…
