Archive for the 'Jessamyn' Category
Jessamyn Responds to Tom Jackson
November 26th, 2008She blogs…”It would be great if we could unite as a country and set priorities so that, yes, urgent medical care for children was possibly higher on Congress’s “what to fund†list than library’s electric bills but our economy doesn’t work that way.”
Reading is Good
September 8th, 2007Jessamyn West – “We could all use more to read”
Children’s Book Stirs Battle With Single Word
February 17th, 2007Heh!
"The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.
Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky [...]
