The Book Search

Today was my favorite kind of day in the library.  The bookkeeper let me know that my book order finally came in (YAY!!!!) so I dragged the three very heavy boxes over and started to open them up.  I always think of opening boxes as something like opening gifts and these were so exciting and so gorgeous.  It was a BLAST!!  In fact it took me several hours to get the books unpacked.  Not because there were so many (there were a lot, but they DID fit into three good sized boxes, and frankly, my budget doesn't allow for gigantic expenditures, but still) but because every time I pulled one out I thought of someone who needed to have this book in their hands RIGHT NOW.  My reward for putting the right book in someone's hands varies- "FINALLY."  Tears rolling down cheeks "This is the BEST book I've EVER read".  Books hugged to chest.  Arms thrown around my waist (I'm 6 feet tall and I work in an elementary school).  There were only a few minor...

I've had a stupid cold this week and I spent a lot of time watching TV and re-reading Harry Potter.  But I'm feeling better now and I was digging around in Netgalley and there's some really great stuff there! I just read a picture called "The Queen's Shadow" by Cybele Young.  It's a funny story about a queen who has lost her shadow and she accuses the animals she is dining with of stealing it.  One by one they explain they couldn't have possibly have done it because of the way that they see.  There is some great scientific information in the book about the way different animals see and it has a funny ending.   The pictures are scientifically Victorian so you get both the queenly theme and the scientific accuracy of the animals.  I liked this one a lot.  This would be a great one to go along with some of Steve Jenkins books like "What do you do with a Tail like this?". The second one I read was a middle grade fiction chapter book call...