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: Books

  • Book Review Saturday: The absolutely true diary of a part-time indian.

    This week I am reviewing “The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, which is one of the contenders for the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. This is the story of a 15 year old boy (Junior) of the Spokane Indian tribe, living in Wellpinit, WA. He is…

  • Book Review Saturday: Touching Snow

    The National Book Award nominees were announced about a month ago and so I have been reading through the contenders for Young People’s Literature. So for this month I will tell what I thought of all of the National Book award nominations (for Young People’s Literature). Today’s book is Touching Snow by M. Sandy Felin.…

  • The Wednesday Wars

    I just now finished reading The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. Wow. What an amazingly great book. It’s a very humorous and fun read. I love the characters in it (except for the main character’s dad. But there’s even something to like about him, too.) It’s really well written. There are some great passages…

  • An interesting perspective

    I am reading a really interesting blog post that presents a very good argument that the Harry Potter books are deeply rooted in the Christian faith, contrary to some of the other perspectives out there (one being that God does not exist in the stories). You can find it at the Blog Catholic and Enjoying…

  • My current read

    The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik. Seriously amazing illustrations. Is it possible for a children’s chapter book to win the Caldecott medal?