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Booktopia: October 2008

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Friday, October 31, 2008. The Twelve Days of Halloween - A Favourite and a Farewell. Boris and Bella are neighbors in Booville, and they don't exactly get along. Bella is a bit of a mess, and Boris is simply too neat, and neither understands the other. Bella gets the bright idea of having a Halloween party. She invites everyone in town. Everyone, except Boris, that is! When Boris gets wind of this, he decides to throw his own fete, and invites everyone except, you've guessed it, Bella. Is simply put my f...

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Booktopia: February 2008

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Julia Gillian and the Art of Knowing. When her mother will butter her toast, and what plate she will put her toast on. Alison McGhee has written a sweet "moment in time" story about Julia Gillian's summer. She is growing up, and fighting parts of it. Black and white illustrations by Drazen Kozjan perfectly compliment the story. Julia Gillian is a great read for fans of Ivy and Bean. And those who have outgrown Amber Brown. Friday, February 22, 2008. Jesse Karp is back! This is...

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Booktopia: The 12 Days of Halloween - Georgie's Halloween

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Monday, October 20, 2008. The 12 Days of Halloween - Georgie's Halloween. I have had a few of these moments as a Children's Librarian over the past 10 or so years. (It never really happened with the YA stuff earlier). I am busily shelving or edging, and a book catches my eye. I pull it off the shelf and low and behold it is a treasure from my childhood. It happened with The Mitten. And more recently with Georgie's Halloween. A walk down memory lane! Labels: 12 Days of Halloween. I am a school librarian&#...

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Staff Book Picks, 2016 | Teen Book Blog

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Staff Book Picks, 2016. December 19, 2016. It is time once again to check in with the St. Louis County Library youth staff and see what folks have been reading in 2016. Below are picks for favorites in Young Adult Fiction, Middle Grade Fiction, Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction, and Adult books with teen appeal which were all published in 2016. Click on a book cover to request a title or for more information about the book. This is a long post, so just keep scrolling. We had a lot of favorites this year!

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Lexicon Avenue: July 2012

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CAUTION: Words at Play. Sunday, July 29, 2012. Just banning "Trees" would save a million trees. Kay Ryan was named poet laureate of the United States. "I might take it upon myself," she said, "to prevent all bad poetry from being published.". She's a poet,. And boy, does she know it. Just because she's the Laureate,. She feels entitled to excoriate. The poetasters among us? As if we were fungus,. To be scraped away. But how can say. What is superior in verse. Without preserving what's worse.

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Needing to know where I come from | Chasing Ray

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Map of My Dead Pilots. Needing to know where I come from. Sometimes I feel like my need to know more about my ancestors is impossible to explain. I am sure that while much of my extended family enjoys reading the revelations about our previous generations, they are somewhat mystified by my dogged determination to learn more. But there is also the need to know about all of them so I can know more about myself. In that type of search, I am not alone. From Katharine Norbury’s The Fish Ladder. AK Flying Book...

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The Modern Ark project | Chasing Ray

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Map of My Dead Pilots. The Modern Ark project. A look at photographer Joel Sartore’s plan to capture close-up images of every captive species on Earth:. Is it going to affect what I make at work? Or is it going to affect my love life? Not in the short term. But I tell you, it’s really folly to think that you can doom everything else to extinction and not have it come back to bite us hard. Go the main website. And see the pictures – they are truly stunning. Natural History/Nature Books and Reviews. Young ...

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The library’s Hell section | Chasing Ray

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Map of My Dead Pilots. The library’s Hell section. From a recent article. In Smithsonian Magazine on the rehabilitation of the Marquis de Sade and a visit with his modern descendant, Count Hugues de Sade:. The family’s embrace of their ancestor is such that Hugues named his eldest son, now 39, Donatien, a first in generations. We’re proud of the marquis, Hugues said. And why not? Some of his writing is too extreme even for me, Hugues said. It is work of total delusion. As interesting as the changing atti...

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2 gorgeous pictures books from Enchanted Lion | Chasing Ray

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Map of My Dead Pilots. 2 gorgeous pictures books from Enchanted Lion. I am consistently impressed with the picture books published by Enchanted Lion Books. Most recently I received copies of Beastly Verse. By Joohee Yoon and The World in a Second. By Isabel Martin with illustrations by Bernard Carvalho. As a friend to the children commend me the Yak,. You will find it exactly the thing;. It will carry and fetch, you can ride on its back,. Or lead it about with a string. The World in a Second. Gives reade...