Children’s Services – Week 4

This week, we talked about the Newbery award and about previous winners and honor books. I’m pleased to say I actually read the Newbery book from this year before it was even announced – Mercy Suarez Changes Gears. That was so good and I hope others like it too! But for class, I was assigned to read Freedom over Me: Eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life by Ashley Bryan.

Children’s Services – Week 3

This week, we discussed different Caldecott Award winners and Honor books. My book was Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales. But I also wanted to talk about this year’s winner, Hello Lighthouse and other notable illustrated picture books.

Times are a-changin’: Merci Suárez Changes Gears

I read this as part of reading Lucky Broken Girl for my children’s services class. Our teacher says a children’s librarian should be able to recommend 3,000+ starting out, and while I might be able to recommend 3,000 books for kids from birth to high school, I don’t know about 3,000 books for just elementary school kids. Again, part of the problem is that I tend to read older kids books and this time is no exception. But I still read it and I still very much enjoyed it.

Children’s Services Class – Week 2

Continuing in my library master’s degree program, I decided to take the children’s literature and services class. It’s like my YA class, except we’re focusing more on elementary school kids. Our first book assignment is to read an award-winning book that’s not a Caldecott or Newbery award.