5.08.2015

Brian Selznick's Arbuthnot Lecture @ the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library :: May 8, 2015

Love Is a Dangerous Angel: Thoughts on Queerness and Family in Children's Books


Brian Selznick, author/illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), Wonderstruck (2011), and the upcoming The Marvels (September 2015), gave this year's May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (DCPL). Watch the lecture here (and I really recommend that you do!):





5.04.2015

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

[The original It's Monday! What Are You Reading?hosted by Sheila over at Book Journey]

People! I'm branching out with my reading! Can you believe it? Joining a "grown-up" book club and participating in a reading challenge has slowly but surely expanded my choices in reading material. At first it was a bit uncomfortable, but everything I've read so far has been wonderful. 

WHAT I READ LAST WEEK:

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

WHAT I'M READING NOW:

Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break, With Recipes for Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall

The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food by Charles Phan

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? From Picture Books to YA


[To rehash the concept :: post what you read last week, what you're reading now, and what you plan to read this week. If you have a review of the book(s), great! If you have a picture of the book(s), wonderful! If you have a book giveaway, fantastic! If you just list the title(s) of the book(s), not a problem! Make it as simple or as complex as you need it to be. At least, that's the message I got. This version of the meme is hosted by Jen and Kellee of Teach Mentor Text, which, in turn, was inspired by Sheila over at Book Journey, who hosts the original It's Monday! What Are You Reading?]

WHAT I READ LAST WEEK:



Farewell Floppy by Benjamin Chaud, translated by Taylor Norman

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jamey Christoph

Hair for Mama by Kelly A. Tinkham, illustrated by Amy June Bates

In Mary's Garden by Tina & Carson Kügler

Meet the Dullards by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri

Raindrops Roll by April Pulley Sayre

Sona and the Wedding Game by Kashmira Sheth, illustrated by Yoshiko Jaeggi 

Ten Thank-You Letters by Daniel Kirk

There's No Such Thing as Little by LeUyen Pham

Where Bear? by Sophy Henn

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni

WHAT I'M READING NOW:


Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome by Robby Novak and Brad Montague

Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

WHAT'S ON HOLD RIGHT NOW:


Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks (aka Heather Rose and Danielle Wood)

4.27.2015

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? From Picture Books to YA


[To rehash the concept :: post what you read last week, what you're reading now, and what you plan to read this week. If you have a review of the book(s), great! If you have a picture of the book(s), wonderful! If you have a book giveaway, fantastic! If you just list the title(s) of the book(s), not a problem! Make it as simple or as complex as you need it to be. At least, that's the message I got. This version of the meme is hosted by Jen and Kellee of Teach Mentor Text, which, in turn, was inspired by Sheila over at Book Journey, who hosts the original It's Monday! What Are You Reading?]

WHAT I READ LAST WEEK:



The Chiru of High Tibet: A True Story by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Linda Wingerter

Feeling Great! Just Like Me! by Jess Stockham

Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley

Happy Hippo, Angry Duck: A Book of Moods by Sandra Boynton

How Are You Peeling? Foods with Moods by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers

Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney

Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt

My Friend is Sad by Mo Willems

My Grandfather's Coat retold by Jim Aylesworth, illustrated by Barbara McClintock

No, David! by David Shannon

The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! by Mo Willems

Sometimes by Keith Baker

Sometimes I'm Bombaloo by Rachel Vail, illustrated by Yumi Heo

Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell

The Way I Feel by Janan Cain

We Dig Worms! by Kevin McCloskey

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Ashfrod Frame, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

WHAT I'M READING NOW:


Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome by Robby Novak and Brad Montague

Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni

WHAT'S ON HOLD RIGHT NOW:


Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks (aka Heather Rose and Danielle Wood)