Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Children’s literature

  • A couple of firsts.

    Tell me how you first learned to read. I am remembering the day I read a book the entire way through all by myself. It was the book, The Summerfolk by Doris Burn*. I was by myself and I seem to recall books on the floor all around me. The house was very quiet. Most…

  • There is great wisdom in children’s literature

    “Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is always the one your are with. And the most important thing is to do good for the one who is standing at your side. For these, my dear boy, are the answers to what is most…

  • Found

    Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix Jonah begins receiving strange letters with cryptic messages in the mail. He thinks it is a prank until his friend from school receives them also. They find out that they are two of a group of “missing” babies that were adopted out when a plane filled with them appeared mysteriously…

  • Book Talk Saturday: Little Women

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott rating: 3 of 5 stars There were parts of this book that made me cringe just the tiniest bit. As a modern day woman, I kind of rolled my eyes at the message that I felt the book was portraying, “women are happiest when they are good mothers and…

  • Book Talk Saturday: The Willoughbys

    A couple of weeks ago I read a delightfully funny book called The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry. It had me laughing out loud in the lunchroom and I had to tell all of my co-workers about what was making me laugh so hard. Books like this are few and far between, I believe, and it…