We’re discussing school library budgets today, not my personal state of red. What do you do when you’ve spent every penny and maybe even a few of your own to buy books for the library and the requests keep coming in? Take a look at these three SLJ articles: School Library Journal’s Spending Survey, SLJ’s Average [...]

Minh Le of Bottom Shelf Books and Farida Dowler are co-hosting a contest over at Saints and Spinners. Here is the link: http://saintsandspinners.blogspot.com/2009/03/unnecessary-sequels-that-never-were.html Between April 1—10, they invite you to submit your book titles and 2-3 sentence synopsizes to the Unnecessary Children’s Book Sequels That Never Were contest. There are three prizes. After the contest is [...]