Chat with Becca Fitzpatrick!

Goodreads (a book review sharing site) is having a live online chat with Becca Fitzpatrick, author of the Hush, Hush series. She's going to be joined by Moira Young, author of Blood Red Road, another book I loved this year.

This is all happening next Tuesday, January 10, at 7pm. You can check it out their website here. I'm not affiliated with Goodreads, just thought some of you would be interested.

Telling Tales Festival

I just glanced at the schedule for Telling Tales this year and I am SO EXCITED!

It's happening on Sunday September 18, 2011 and we are having...




Mahtab Narsimhan, Lesley Livingston and Robert Paul Weston PLUS lots of awesome childrens writers too like Jean Little and Barbara Reid, who does those awesome plasticine books.

There's also all sorts of other stuff happening too like a book swap and story telling, puppetry and more! The best part? It's free! There's also going to be free shuttles taking people from downtown, East Gate and Limeridge to the festival so it should be easy to get there.

For more information, check out the official web site at www.tellingtales.org

Supercrawl!

This Saturday is Supercrawl downtown! If you don't know what that is, check out their fantastic website here.   This Saturday is ALSO the Locke street festival and there will be buses going to and fro, so don't worry about transportation.

There's lots of awesome bands who are going to be playing and lots of amazing art (of course). Here at the library we will be announcing the winner of our children's LEGO contest and Deborah Ellis (!!!) will also be here launching her latest book, True Blue. I know a lot of you have read her books so if you want a chance to see her live and in person, come to Central Library at 1:30 p.m.

Reason #451 Why I Love Being a Librarian

If you've had a five minute conversation with me, you've probably figured out that I love my job. I get to do all kinds of cool stuff and meet cool people and it generally rocks pretty hard. Sometimes though it's crazy amazing and the only reason I'm telling you (besides peer-pressuring you to join the league of librarians mwa ha ha) is that I think you might be able to get that this is a big deal.

This weekend I met Brian Selznick, Walter Dean Meyers and David Levithan!!! All three are fairly famous teen/childrens authors (look them up in our catalog if you don't know them) and it was awesome to get to chat with them about their work and tell them how awesome they are (as if they don't already know). All were complete gentlemen and really down to earth and more than happy to talk about their work (except that Brian Selznick could not talk about his next book so I can't tell you much about that besides the fact that it will be out Fall 2011).

How do you get to meet famous authors? Well, one way is to become a librarian and attend conferences which are events where librarians hear what other library systems are doing and stay on top of advancements in the field (technology, new books/authors, etc.). So not only did I get to meet famous people, I also got a whole bunch of cool ideas that I'm looking forward to trying. Stay tuned!

Also stay tuned for our first teen review coming on THURSDAY!