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Notes from a Children's Librarian: Text to Text
As part of the Language curriculum, primary readers are asked to make connections between books, identifying similarities. The following titles are paired …
Fiercely Feminist Fiction
Books with fierce female leads and a bone to pick with the patriarchy.
The Chat with Nancy Jo Cullen
We celebrate Pride month in conversation with Nancy Jo Cullen, author of the fabulous debut novel The Western Alienation Merit Badge (Buckrider/Wolsak …
How to Die Like a Roman Emperor
"To learn how to die, according to the Stoics, is to unlearn how to be a slave."
Drunken Chicken Wings: from Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune
"Love and inebriation produce the same effects: bouts of joy and impaired decision making."
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books About Math
Great books that complement the Primary Math curriculum and make for entertaining reads at the same time.
Exploration and Creative Play with Loose Parts
The new initiative for my school library in September is the addition of a loose parts area in the library makerspace, where students will have the opportunity …
10 Books for Young People to Read with PRIDE
A selection of recent books by LGBTQ authors and/or featuring LGBTQ characters or themes—and also featuring hamsters, promposals, Walt Whitman, and …
Jo Walton: 5 Stories Bound Up with History
A recommended reading list by author of the new book Lent.
Writing the Self In Nature
A recommended reading list by author of the new essay collection Treed: Walking in Canada's Urban Forests.