<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Rants: Books @ libraryladymom.blog-city.com</title><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Rants: Books) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 libraryladymom.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:29:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Rants: Books @ libraryladymom.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>This Week&apos;s Story Time: For the Birds</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/this_weeks_story_time_for_the_birds.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/this_weeks_story_time_for_the_birds.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=this%5Fweeks%5Fstory%5Ftime%5Ffor%5Fthe%5Fbirds</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spring is here and my cats and I have been watching their favorite show--the birds at the feeder in our backyard.
We always have a lot of mourning doves, sparrows and the occasional cardinal. But this spring we've also got a woodpecker or two a]]></description></item><item><title>Storytime This Week: Think Green!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/storytime_this_week_think_green.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/storytime_this_week_think_green.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=storytime%5Fthis%5Fweek%5Fthink%5Fgreen</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And yes, Beth, I did use "Green Eggs and Ham"--I showed the video to my oldest group!

A Frog In the Bogby Karma Wilson"What a hog, that frog!"Sitting "on a half sunk log in the middle of the bog" this silly frog eats]]></description></item><item><title>This Week&apos;s Storytime Books</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/this_weeks_storytime_books.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/this_weeks_storytime_books.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=this%5Fweeks%5Fstorytime%5Fbooks</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You may have noticed (if you notice such things, that is) that I have changed my sidebar a bit recently. Because while I intend to continue to rant about anything I durn well please, there ARE librarians out there who have included this in their &quo]]></description></item><item><title>What We SHOULD Be Teaching Our Children</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/we_need_to_put_a_copy_of_this_book_in_classroomsand_in_a_lot.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/we_need_to_put_a_copy_of_this_book_in_classroomsand_in_a_lot.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=we%5Fneed%5Fto%5Fput%5Fa%5Fcopy%5Fof%5Fthis%5Fbook%5Fin%5Fclassroomsand%5Fin%5Fa%5Flot</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["All their great teachers have taught the same lesson: Love and care for one another and for our beautiful earth"]]></description></item><item><title>It&apos;s Children&apos;s Book Award Time, So It&apos;s Time For My Annual Rant</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/as_the_newbery_and_caldecott_awards_come_out_today.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/as_the_newbery_and_caldecott_awards_come_out_today.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=as%5Fthe%5Fnewbery%5Fand%5Fcaldecott%5Fawards%5Fcome%5Fout%5Ftoday</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I hate to shatter the illusions of Eden Ross Lipson. She is the former editor of the New York Times Book Review's children's books department, and the author of a very good guide to children's books.
But after hearing her interviewed on NPR last nig]]></description></item><item><title>They&apos;ll Remember the Books</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/we_remember_the_stories.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/we_remember_the_stories.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=we%5Fremember%5Fthe%5Fstories</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A mom whom I hadn't seen in a while came to story time yesterday. She came regularly with her first child, but just hasn't found herself able to do the same with her second. This led to a discussion about second children getting less than first kids,]]></description></item><item><title>Children&apos;s Novels I Recommend to Patrons and Friends--And They&apos;re Not JUST For Kids!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/childrens_novels.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/childrens_novels.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=childrens%5Fnovels</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Children's Novels I Recommend To Patrons and Friends
 

All of A Kind Familyby Sydney TaylorFirst in a series about 5 little girls growing up at the turn of the century on the Lower East Side of New York. I learned a lot about Jewish culture]]></description></item><item><title>On the Last Day of &quot;Novem-bear&quot;, A Rant About Biblitherapy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/on_the_last_day_of_novembear_a_rant_about_biblitherapy.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/on_the_last_day_of_novembear_a_rant_about_biblitherapy.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=on%5Fthe%5Flast%5Fday%5Fof%5Fnovembear%5Fa%5Frant%5Fabout%5Fbiblitherapy</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am not a big fan of the Berenstain Bears.
Don't get me wrong. I am sure that Stan Berenstain was a wonderful man, a great husband and father.  And I love and recommend to patrons the "I Can Read" books he and his wife Jan did early]]></description></item><item><title>No, She Doesn&apos;t HAVE To See &quot;Harry Potter&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/no_she_doesnt_have_to_see_harry_potter.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/no_she_doesnt_have_to_see_harry_potter.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fshe%5Fdoesnt%5Fhave%5Fto%5Fsee%5Fharry%5Fpotter</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This rant follows reading an article in the Washington Post on parents taking their young children to the PG 13 rated "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Stuff like this always annoys me, but what really set me off was the following quote from]]></description></item><item><title>Narnia Begins With &quot;Lion&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/narnia_begins_with_lion.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/narnia_begins_with_lion.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=narnia%5Fbegins%5Fwith%5Flion</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of my biggest library peeves of the last few years has been the repackaging of C.S. Lewis' Narnia books with numbers that place them in chronological order as follows:1)The Magician's Nephew2)The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe3)The Horse and Hi]]></description></item><item><title>YA Books</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/ya_books.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/ya_books.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ya%5Fbooks</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I discovered today that I don't really NEED my Young Adult collection.Silly me. I've wasted so much of the taxpayers' money buying books like  The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, The Princess Diaries and stuff by people like Sarah Dessen, Hope B]]></description></item><item><title>Here Chick,Chick, Chick</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/here_chickchick_chick.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/here_chickchick_chick.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=here%5Fchickchick%5Fchick</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had an interesting discussion with a patron the other day. She'd come to last week's park program that (because of the heat)had been held indoors at another local library.

Before going any further I want to say that I really like this patron. Sh]]></description></item><item><title>And While We Are On Kids Books....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/and_while_we_are_on_kids_books.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/and_while_we_are_on_kids_books.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=and%5Fwhile%5Fwe%5Fare%5Fon%5Fkids%5Fbooks</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Since I'm ranting about such things this week, I for one am NOT waiting with baited breath for "The Empire Strikes Back"--excuse me--"Eldest" by Christopher Paolini to make its fall debut.I still cannot get over how so many intell]]></description></item><item><title>After Reading Harry Potter 6</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/after_reading_harry_potter_6.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/after_reading_harry_potter_6.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=after%5Freading%5Fharry%5Fpotter%5F6</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, I guess I don't know squat. I'm only a fricking children's librarian who has spent 20 years working with kids and reading basically every piece of fiction that comes into my library.And I guess I'm just an overprotective, overanxious mother who]]></description></item><item><title>Okay, Harry Potter Fans, Now What?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/okay_harry_potter_fans_now_what.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/okay_harry_potter_fans_now_what.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=okay%5Fharry%5Fpotter%5Ffans%5Fnow%5Fwhat</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am reminded today of an old Peanuts strip, in which "Lucy" says something to the effect of:]]></description></item><item><title>Random Rantings On Things Large and Small</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/random_thoughts.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/random_thoughts.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=random%5Fthoughts</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator></item><item><title>A Quote I Love</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/a_quote_i_love.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/a_quote_i_love.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fquote%5Fi%5Flove</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From famed food writer M.F.K. Fisher's book Among Friends, the story of her childhood growing up in one of the few non-Quaker families in Whittier, CA. I suspect Richard Nixon may have been one of her contemporaries and that was his home town, bu]]></description></item><item><title>For My 400th Entry:Another Penguin Who Clearly Loves the Library</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/for_my_400th_entryanother_penguin_who_clearly_loves_the_library.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/for_my_400th_entryanother_penguin_who_clearly_loves_the_library.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=for%5Fmy%5F400th%5Fentryanother%5Fpenguin%5Fwho%5Fclearly%5Floves%5Fthe%5Flibrary</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I could bore y'all with more amazing facts about me (and yes, after almost 20 years living south of the Mason Dixon line, I do say y'all on occasion!) but instead I present last weekend's &quot;Opus&quot; strip. Clearly Berke Breathed is someone w]]></description></item><item><title>Book Meme</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/book_meme_1.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/book_meme_1.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=book%5Fmeme%5F1</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I got this from  Brunhilde Crow, who writes a hilarious but unfortunately infrequently updated blog at  www.rbidiocy.blogspot.com  Come on, Brunhilde, I know your life is (at least) as crazy as mine-- you need  to take a frequent  sanity (?) bre]]></description></item><item><title>Recent Chicklet Lit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/recent_chicklet_lit.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/recent_chicklet_lit.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=recent%5Fchicklet%5Flit</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Four new books, all of which should be available from your local public library:              Princess In Training   by Meg Cabot                                  If you've read the Princess Diaries]]></description></item></channel></rss>