Notes from the Wild: Vol. 17
Kids, it is said, say the darnedest things. As a children’s librarian I can attest to the fact that this is indeed the case. Kids can be delightfully weird, which […]
Category Archives: Musings
Notes from the Wild: Vol. 16
Summer is here (though you wouldn’t know it from the Junuary days we’ve been having recently) and for many librarians that means only one thing – Summer Reading Club! My […]
Notes from the Wild: Vol. 13
For a librarian, few things are sadder than seeing a young reader turn up their nose at an awesome book simply because they’ve been turned off by a horribly dated book cover. […]
At Best A Visitor, At Worst An Interloper
This month’s theme is (obviously) kicking my butt. To say I’m not prepared is a grievous understatement. Every time I see the blog’s homepage, it’s like I’m a vampire and this is […]
Notes from The Wild: Vol. 12
Board books, in case it’s been awhile since you had/were a baby, are small, durable picture books printed on heavy cardboard, designed to survive the occasional trip into a gummy […]
Secret knowledge: poems and songs in novels
When I was a kid and reading Redwall for the very first time, I was entranced by the poem that old Methuselah discovers graven into the wall behind Martin’s tapestry. I […]
Note to Self …
Reviewing stuff is not easy. Recently, I was looking through my archives and because I don’t have a whole lot of archive, I ended up reading some of my older reviews […]
The Book Wars 