{"id":1610,"date":"2009-04-30T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:58","slug":"help-kidlitosphere-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"Help a Kidlitosphere Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SfosHirEsRI\/AAAAAAAAB1E\/f0mApEQSmW0\/s1600-h\/ArtistsBookAuction09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ArtistsBookAuction09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330621617024577810\" \/><\/a>If you went to the Kidlitosphere Conference this past fall, perhaps you were fortunate, as I was, to meet the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgetzinn.com\/\">Bridget Zinn<\/a>&#8211;a YA librarian and writer recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She&#8217;s in treatment, but it&#8217;s very expensive&#8211;so the kidlitosphere is chipping in to help out. Jone&#8211;conference organizer extraordinaire, and blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/deowriter.wordpress.com\/\">Deo Writer<\/a>&#8211;is organizing an online auction as well as an in-person silent auction to help defray the cost of treatments. The online auction goes live TOMORROW&#8211;read about the details <a href=\"http:\/\/deowriter.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/20\/get-ready-to-raise-money-for-bridget\/\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;ve donated a handmade blank book (photos at right), <a href=\"http:\/\/awrungsponge.blogspot.com\/\">Cloudscome<\/a> has donated a handmade baby quilt, and there will be numerous other wonderful items up for bidding. Stay tuned! <\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SfosQE0nWTI\/AAAAAAAAB1M\/NZRpPhbS3Ec\/s1600-h\/LibraryBooksApr09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 228px;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/LibraryBooksApr09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330621763630356786\" \/><\/a>I was very excited about my library haul from this past week&#8211;you can see the results here. After a reading binge several days long, I&#8217;ve already made it through most of them, so expect some reviews to materialize throughout the next week. In the meantime, why not check out a couple of exciting new blog links? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingauthors.com\/\">Teaching Authors<\/a>, if you haven&#8217;t heard, is a group blog with April Halprin Wayland, Esther Hershenhorn, Jeanne Marie Grunwell Ford, JoAnn Early Macken, Mary<br \/>Ann Rodman, and Carmela Martino&#8211;all published, working writers who also happen to be writing teachers. They&#8217;ll be posting writing exercises called Writing Workouts, as well as addressing topics of interest to writers, readers, and teachers alike. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingauthors.com\/2009\/04\/introducing-teachingauthorscom.html\">Here&#8217;s the official intro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another new star in the kidlit sky is the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/booklights\/\">Booklights<\/a> from PBS Parents&#8211;brought to you by blog buds <a href=\"http:\/\/jkrbooks.typepad.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/announcing-booklights-from-pbs-parents.html\">Jen Robinson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/\">Mother Reader<\/a>, and Susan Kusel of <a href=\"http:\/\/wizardswireless.blogspot.com\/\">Wizards Wireless<\/a>, along with Gina Montefusco from PBS and various guest contributors. The goal of the blog is to help parents and others encourage a love of reading in kids. I can&#8217;t think of better champions for the cause!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you went to the Kidlitosphere Conference this past fall, perhaps you were fortunate, as I was, to meet the lovely Bridget Zinn&#8211;a YA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}