Today we started out fairly early in my own opinion. We went down stairs to have some very good breakfast that thuroughly filled us up. After that we had to lug what seemed like thousands of pounds of books to the post office just to have to wait in [...]
In the spirit of student creativity, I, former King student Kayla Cogle, will be doing the blogging tonight. It’s 12:17 AM. Whoo hoo! Well, it’s actually more like a ‘nughhhhhh….’. But there’s definitely some supressed enthusiasm going on there.
We kicked off the morning with a Young Adult Author Breakfast. ‘Breakfast’ being the questionable word in [...]
Hello everyone, Otrell L. I. McDaniel here. In case you’re wondering why I’m doing the blog today and not Kelley, today she got a little exasperated with us and how much of the blogging she had been doing. She originally wanted Tess and Kayla to do the blog instead, but I volunteered in their place. [...]
A couple of seventh grade students and I went to the Portland Public Library today to the First Friday Children’s & Young Adult Author Lunch to meet author Alisa Libby and hear her talk about her new book, The Blood Confession, a gothic young adult novel about a 16th century Hungarian noblewoman who begins a [...]
Today was the day I dedicated to my daughter by exploring the world of Beverly Cleary. My daughter is a BIG Ramona Quimby fan.
Here’s what we did on the final day of our trip:
We went to what would have been Ramona’s local public library - in Ramona’s world, it was the Glenwood Library, but [...]
Seattle, Day 4
First, the ALA Awards …
The are numerous awards given by various divisions of the American Library Association; the most famous awards are the Newbery Medal, given to the most distinguished American book for children (ages 9-12), and the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book. But there are other [...]
Our second visit to the exhibit hall was interrupted by an Unfortunate Event: my daughter lost her conference badge. I’m ashamed to admit that I was not very gracious and instead of reassuring her that “everything will be okay,” I got angry and made her cry. (For the record, I did apologize.) The [...]
I had a meeting this morning with school librarians representing every state in the United States. The meeting is called the American Association of School Libraries (AASL) Affiliate Assembly and there are two representatives from each state library association.
QUESTION: Two representatives from each state is like which part of Congress, the House of [...]
At the American Library Association’s (ALA’s) Midwinter Meeting exhibit hall, there are thousands of exhibitors. The exhibits are spread out across two exhibit halls. My daughter Aedin and I went through one of the exhibit halls today.
Here are some of the special things we saw and did:
Terry Trueman, the author of Stuck in Neutral, [...]
So, last night’s events were interesting, but both Aedin and I were pretty tired. We had done so much during the day already.
Mercedes Lackey was not able to attend the SciFi/Fantasy Authors’ Panel. But there was another woman, Laini Taylor, who was wonderful. I got an autographed copy of her first (upcoming) [...]
