Greetings
from the airplane, although by the time I post this I will be on my layover in
Las Vegas. My feet are touching the
ground, although I feel like the airplane now and am flying. Is this all really true? Am I really headed to hang out with 20,000
librarians with Kwame and Dan Santat and
all the rest?! I just shook my
head. I hope my seat mates didn’t catch
that.
On my
birthday last week, I got an email from Netgalley saying I was approved to read
the ARC of Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate. You know, things have been a tad busy so I
just got a chance to read it here on the plane and Wow. 2 ½ tissues
later and I can finally get my thoughts on paper. That’s some beautiful writing right
there. Boy. I can’t wait to share it with students. I couldn’t believe the connections to this
year’s Caldecott book (Beekle!!!) and Lauren Castillo’s latest
illustrations with Eve Bunting’s book, Yard Sale. A trombone even makes a cameo, which made me
smile and think of Trombone Shorty and Bryan Collier.
We had a
whirlwind of a last day. The Morning
Assembly went really well. We shared our
“Best Book Ever” and “It’s a Basketball Life” music videos as well as the cover
of the NYSUT magazine which features KWAME!
The fifth graders wrote memories of CES and sang beautifully thanks to
Mrs. Gibney. I didn’t take a single picture but I know there are a bunch posted
on the Schodack webpage.
After the
Assembly, Mrs. Harris and I got to work on the NYS Archives project.
Reminiscent of two years ago when we were literally working minutes before the
buses pulled up, we were doing the same thing today but it was even more
stressful. Honestly, I don’t know how
good it is and if the annotated bibliography will pass the inspection, but at
least we can say that we submitted it.
I got a
beautiful personalized bag that says, “Librarian” on it. It’s on my feet right now. How awesome is that! Thank you, Becka! I will be the envy of those 20,000 folks
tomorrow in San Francisco!
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