I read this post by Mur Lafferty, a letter to her daughter about the fact that being "a girl" is considered one of the worst insults in the English language and as a mother of a pretty remarkable little girl, yeah, I get it ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Purim, the Jewish "dress up" holiday and another one of those "thank goodness we weren't wiped off the face of the earth!" celebrations. Coincidentally, it was also World Read Aloud Day which was perfect for the reading of the Megillah, the story of Queen Esther. (For a quick-ref of the story, click here.) And while I get something ( Read more... )

On #kidlitchat yesterday, I discovered something: not everyone's library is part of an inter-library loan system. I was honestly shocked. Naive little me took it for granted that if my library didn't have a particular book that I'm jonesing for that I could easily request it from anywhere in my state and it would be delivered to my library with an ( Read more... )