Library Lions Roar September 2015
Author Peg Kehret Roars!
Library Lions Roar is Thrilled to welcome the wonderful Peg Kehret to our blog! Peg’s forty-eight books for kids have won more than fifty state young reader awards, SCBWI’s Golden Kite, the PEN Center West Award in Children’s Literature, the Henry Bergh Award from the ASPCA and many other honors. Her most recent book is Dangerous… Read more
Dana Sullivan Draws a Roar!
Welcome to Library Lions interviews. Author/Illustrator Dana Sullivan is stopping by to share his books, art, and Library Love. Take it away Dana! I write and illustrate picture books and also teach picture book and graphic novel making at local art centers, colleges and LIBRARIES. I absolutely adore libraries. I live in Newcastle, Washington, where… Read more
Be A Changemaker
Welcome to Library Lions interviews. Author Laurie Ann Thompson is stopping by to share her books and her Library Love with us. Take it away Laurie! A former software engineer, I now write for children and young adults to help my readers and myself make better sense of the world we live in, so we… Read more
TEACHER LIBRARIANS ROAR!
Welcome to Library Lions interviews Raising a Roar for libraries and the outstanding librarians serving youth in schools and public libraries across the U.S. Please Roar today’s guest teacher librarian Beth Campbell. The Skinny I’m the teacher librarian at Hopewell Elementary School in Bettendorf, IA. Our school, which opened four years ago, is located near… Read more
SKYPE YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR!
Welcome to Library Lions. Author Trudi Trueit is here with good news for librarians about Online Author Visits (OAV) . Considering an Online Author Visit? It’s easier than you think and it’s well worth it! Trudi’s here to tell you all about it. Take it away Trudi! I remember trying to calm the butterflies in my… Read more
AUTHOR LOIS BRANDT ROARS
Before we welcome the fabulous Lois Brandt to Roar on Library Lions, let’s congratulate the two winners of The Poetry Friday Anthology Celebrations contest. Winners are (drum roll please) Laurie Ann Thompson and Angie Karcher! We’re sure you will treasure your first edition copies of this amazing book edited by Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell!!… Read more
POETRY FRIDAY SERIES ROARS ON!
Library Lions Roar for the newest addition to The Poetry Friday Anthology series. Please join us in wishing a happy “book birthday” to The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations with an interview of Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell, creators of this popular series (used in over 1000 school districts as the primary method of poetry… Read more
CURIOUS CITY ROARS!
Kirsten Cappy creator of Curious City:Where Kids and Books Meet is here to ROAR today! Deliverers of our Country May I borrow a book title from the indomitable E. Nesbit? I see librarians as the “deliverers of our country.” From librarians’ title curiosity and patron service generosity, books are opened, experienced, and deeply engaged with…. Read more
TEXAS TEEN LIBRARIAN ROARS!
Welcome to Library Lions Roar — interviews Raising a Roar for libraries and the outstanding librarians serving youth in schools and public libraries across the U.S. Please Roar today’s guest, Teen Librarian Veronica McKay! Hello All, I am the Teen Services Librarian at the Rita and Truett Smith Public Library in Wylie, Texas. I have worked at… Read more
Library Lions Author Brianna DuMont
Welcome to Library Lions interviews. Author, Brianna DuMont is stopping by to share her books and her Library Love. Take it away Brianna! My name is Brianna DuMont, and I write nonfiction books for middle graders with a quirky edge. My Changed History series starts with Famous Phonies: Legends, Fakes, and Frauds Who Changed History…. Read more
