Julie Booker Posts

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books on Kindness and Caring
Picture books featuring traits from character-based education.

Notes From a Children's Librarian: On Perseverance
Books that show the development of perseverance as a character trait.

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books on Working Together
What's gonna work? Team work! Especially in this great kids book recommendations.

Notes From a Children's Librarian: On Responsibility
With great power comes...
Our Children's Librarian columnist, Julie Booker, brings us a new view from the stacks every month.

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Deborah Ellis
Julie Booker explains how she became a convert of The Breadwinner series.

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Dystopian YA
Strong female characters dominate these dystopian tales for teens, with common themes of environmental decay, orphanhood, and the question of knowing …

Notes From a Children's Librarian: Halloween Books
Picture books, a first chapter book, a junior novel, and a collection of Canadian ghost stories all make for spooky reads this Halloween.

Quick Hits: Infernos, Outrage, Love, and Anything But
This month's Quick Hits is among our most eclectic compilations yet, and the books in it are SO good.

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books for Mother's Day
Mothers come in many forms in these books that put moms in the spotlight.

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Poetry Books
Because Canadian children's poetry doesn't begin and end with Alligator Pie, Julie Booker offers up some excellent titles for National Poetry Month.