Looking at highly awarded, favorite authors and illustrators, variety of genres, cultural representation, and fan favorites. #aisl25

Starting off #aisl25 with Deborah Salyer talking about What’s New in Books for Children.

πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “…surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places πŸ‘»

Today I’m attending my first Association of Independent School Librarians institute, Booked for the Day: Reading, Reflection, and Revitalization. I’m planning to live-blog. Posts should automatically appear on Bluesky & Mastodon.

πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “Here, then, is a central paradox in the way that ghosts work: to turn the living into ghosts is to empty them out, rob them of something vital; to keep the dead alive as ghosts is to fill them up with memory and history, to keep alive a thing that would otherwise be lost.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, writing about the dissonance between Richmond’s history as the home of slave trade and torture and the fact that all Richmond’s ghosts are white πŸ‘»

Finished reading: Kiss the Girl by Zoraida CΓ³rdova πŸ“š

This is such a perfect move of Disney’s The Little Mermaid to contemporary romance. There is so much perfection to be had here, such magic work taking movie moments and making them part of our world. If you’re an Ariel person, you should read it.

πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “Romantic heroes are the greatest cryptids of all.” Zoraida CΓ³rdova, Kiss the Girl πŸ§œβ€β™€οΈ