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@ExlibrisMrHunt
@exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
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Teacher-Librarian, K-5
Hands-on STEAM; kidlit fanboy; love graphic novels; inclusive col’n; he/him.

Co-host of The Sartorial Librarians Podcast.
@sartoriallibrary.bsky.social
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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · Dec 1
Getting to know me, @ExLibrisMrHunt…

[Ex Libris roughly can mean “from the library of” and used to be on bookplates (stickers) inside book covers so that people knew who the borrowed item belonged to…it’s Latin, ‘cause I’m all fancy and stuff.]
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social @ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · Dec 1
Hello new (or past) followers,

My bio says most of what you need to know, including that I’m co-host with @paulvinelli.bsky.social of a #LibrarianFashion & #kidlit podcast…

BUT,
here are 5 more “special”things (no particular order) I’d like you to know about content I share here:

1) I use ALT ⬇️
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Also, today in the library:
Agree to class came in for a #LegoWall build. They are learning how to show representations of two digit numbers in groups of 10s and 1s, their job was to do that in Lego…
A distance shot of building plates going up on the Lego wall to show students knowledge of how to demonstrate two digit numbers such as 22 represented as the number itself and groups of tens and ones… A close up shot of building plates going up on the Lego wall to show students knowledge of how to demonstrate two digit numbers such as 67 represented as the number itself and groups of tens and ones…
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Today in the library: Gr 1s were doing #LooseParts creations of settings, with two chosen plastic animals, then making up oral stories with those characters…share story with at least one other student, then we took photos, which will be printed later for writing out their stories in class tomorrow.
A bunch of loose parts building items laid out on a table in their separate bins: plastic shapes blocks, straws and connecters, pipe cleaners, gems that are clear or green or blue, little rolls of burlap, twigs and wooden sticks, etc… More loose parts, bins: popsicle sticks, ribbons of different sizes and colors, little wooden nonrepresentational people like figures, clothes pins, Cuisenaire rods, etc. A close-up of one kids loose parts setting-– it’s built on an 11 x 17 sheet of construction paper, which is what we used to contain their scene so it doesn’t spread so far that no one else can build —with other kids’ story scenes spread out on the floor nearby. A few from above of two kid heads, leaning in as one tells their animal story to the other – afterwards, they switch roles, storyteller and listener.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Near the beginning of lunch, a K kid was telling me that he apparently had a…chicken banana (?!) for lunch.

Definitely no “and” in the middle of that.

Attempted clarification…And then gave up.

Who knows?

I’ve seen some pretty weird concoctions in the grocery store that I’d never want/eat.
a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background
Alt: Meme: close up of a white man 's face with a subtle but very obviously confused eyebrow raise and blink blink blink eyes.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Today in
#LibrarianFashion

#skybrarians #TLsky
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social @ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 11h
#RedForBCed today…even the library step stool was getting in on showing support.
Me, perched on the Storytime throne, wearing a bright red tie, red Converse shoes, one foot resting up on a red library wheelie step stool thingie.
November 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
I’m really hoping that the BCNDP gov will make good on the campaign promise to add one additional Edu Assistant to every primary classroom, as that will help with classroom management and student support quite a lot…and take a good look at our bargaining asks with open hearts/minds.
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social @ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 11h
#RedForBCed today…even the library step stool was getting in on showing support.
Me, perched on the Storytime throne, wearing a bright red tie, red Converse shoes, one foot resting up on a red library wheelie step stool thingie.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
#RedForBCed today…even the library step stool was getting in on showing support.
Me, perched on the Storytime throne, wearing a bright red tie, red Converse shoes, one foot resting up on a red library wheelie step stool thingie.
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
#ThisBookTheseReasons
Excellent narrative nonfiction: It’s #scienterrific with its great front & back matter, mini visual timeline at bottoms of pages; charts evolution from POV of titular Stalactite & Stalagmite; plus, has a #SecretCover; and now is part of my #RecodeTheBarcode series.

Drip💧 drip💧
Cover of the mentioned book, by Drew Beckmeyer. Features a cut paper looking dark cave interior with anthropomorphic (minimalist but expressive eyes and mouths) stalactite and stalagmite characters, one above the other, slowly dripping themselves into elongated existence.
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Cool project.
Took a screenshot for my cup-runneth-over file of amazing ideas I’ll prob never explore due to overwhelming abundance of cool ideas already accumulated yet not put into practice…but, still.
✅ 📚👍
Also reminded me of A Book Of Maps For You made me want to do similar #PlaceBasedLearning
mstaylor-art.bsky.social Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 1d
We’ve been reading ‘My Street Remembers’ and creating abstract maps in Grade 2. Ss used sharpies & transparency sheets to trace sections of our Flemingdon Park map and then created abstract collages to go underneath #abstractart #EduSky
Colourful multi-layered abstract maps, using colour, shape and line
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Just learned that, in the UK, this is National Nonfiction November…? So, here’s a l’il reminder that I semi-regularly do #scienterrific posts with #ThisBookTheseReasons logic for why those nonfiction books would be great for col’n development…see also, examples attached…& more.

#NNFN
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social @ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · Apr 17
Update:
Happy to say that I added

I Was: The Stories of Animal Skulls
+
Meet The Mini-Mammals

to the #ReadAloud rotation voting Tues/today.
Both were huge hits—lots of conversation sparked.

Details on these #scienterrific books:
See:
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exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social @ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · Apr 10
As much as I LOVE #nonfiction #kidlit, buy tons of unique stuff, booktalk it constantly, genre café it & facilitate finding it for classroom teachers to read to kids…

I rarely use nonfiction for my library #readalouds …which was a deficit I was going to try to fix these last two years…OK, SOON!
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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#ThisBookTheseReasons

Not since Potato Pants has there been such oddball, silly, pants-based humour in a children’s book. Unless I’m forgetting some other super weird pants book…?

I’m here for bizarro humour, every day.
Cover image: Little Freddie Two Pants (The Dog With Too Nany Pants).features a brown-spotted white dog wearing blue jeans (I think) with tail hole on its hind legs and yellow pants with white polka dots bunched up on its front legs.
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Two types of barcode fixations…threaded/attached together…

Tricky site-based library barcodes:
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And tricky ISBN barcodes:
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social @ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve done some posts before about how I think public/school librarians really should give up on standardized placement of site-based book barcodes in favour of aesthetics…but, I was just thinking about creative use of the ISBN barcodes (because of Every Monday Mabel’s garbage truck license plate…
1/
Back cover of Jashar Awan’s mentioned picture book: features a face-on view of a garbage truck driving toward the viewer…and its license plate is the book’s ISBN label—fun, tricky, cool!
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
This.

Immiseration.

Saving time illusion/desire due to burnout.

Often, if I map out in my mind their time-saving AI journey, I figure that would take me more time than just doing it myself, while also scraping away any small sense of agency/creativity/voice/fun/whatever

—a leaf blower
vs a rake.
notalegalrecord.net Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 2d
that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
I’ve done some posts before about how I think public/school librarians really should give up on standardized placement of site-based book barcodes in favour of aesthetics…but, I was just thinking about creative use of the ISBN barcodes (because of Every Monday Mabel’s garbage truck license plate…
1/
Back cover of Jashar Awan’s mentioned picture book: features a face-on view of a garbage truck driving toward the viewer…and its license plate is the book’s ISBN label—fun, tricky, cool!
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Doing team-teaching w/ K teacher…some #OutdoorLearning, #PlayLearning, but copious rain kept us from going outdoors today, so pivoted to indoor version: Shaping found nature #LooseParts, form alphabet letters…practice letter sounds…match plastic animals to their letter/sound…intro story/discussion
Photo of a photography picture book called discovering nature’s alphabet…Krystina Castella and Brian Boyl. Picture of one of the long wooden library tables with a letter C and a letter L picture out over top of two black construction paper pieces, on which is a letter C formed out of acorns, wood, discs, and rocks; a letter L formed out of a long, large pine cone And a stick A letter S shape made out of pinecones on a black construction paper background. Above it is a letter S picture and all around it are plastic creatures that start with the letter S, such as a starfish, a shark… A funky B made from sticks and little rounds cut from a branch surrounded by a parade of bears birds and bugs plastic animals.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Yesterday, the new Crochet Club, which was going to meet in the host teacher’s classroom, but has gotten too large, met here in the Library instead…and I’ve given them the extended invitation to always meet here.
A photo of hands and crochet hooks and balls of yarn and plastic Ziploc bags to store their projects in… Photo of the arms of a student working on the crochet project they brought from home which has long sleeves in seafoam green wool… Working on a sweater.
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Haven’t done anything artistic with a class in awhile…
Just made a #zine last week of so funky old torn paper collage portraits I’d made…
Sent a pitch email yesterday PM to do art lessons based on this for maybe 2-3 classes in Dec…
Already have 9 replies wanting in on it…
I’m popular🤪
Raffle time!
Photo of the front cover of the zine I mentioned, which is called Making Faces, a collage portrait zine by Christopher Hunt. The title is done in cut and pasted letters, ransom note style. The central image is of one of the collage faces I made years ago. It features a pale green and beige, striped piece of paper ripped into a vague face shape; glued onto it are other facial features, ripped or cut from various other fancy papers. The eyes are created with old frames for slides with a picture of an eyeball mounted behind one and a swirling circular design like a vinyl record behind the other… And so on. A partial photo of the zine mock up showing that cover image again and a couple other collage faces done in similar style.
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Wow! My nerves are wracked…but, in a good way…?

I just completed my first-ever submission: Two of my microfiction pieces.

Big learning curve. Still figuring things out. Exciting to get started though.
Screenshot of the call for submissions from SmokeLong’s website: The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate. In addition, we will pay the grand prize winner $1000. Second place: $500. Third place $300. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the December ’25 issue of SmokeLong. Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Love this found #bookmarks museum idea.*

From the photo, I think my
#FaveBookmarkToday
is the beige, fringed leather one with three potted topiaries running vertically down it.

*
Related:
See also,
replied with…
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November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Side note, side gig:

I make #zines

Latest:
Hints of puzzle games, logic probs, hints o’ Normal Gossip podcast, small world connection vibes…has collage mosaic portraits, character writing…a meditation on community…how people are connected, webs of contact, mutual acquaintances, shared interests…
Close up of front cover image: Shows a fine gauge knitted bookmark (in browns/oranges) that looks more like a scarf or something in the picture; overlaid are mosaic chunks of various facial features assembled from multiple portraits. The title in red lettering is Inter Woven. Text from back cover in two separated text boxes, the first in red type, the second in orangey brown… A) 16 characters 16 portraits in mixed up mosaics 16 interwoven lives B) This zine examines the lives of a diverse cast of characters to explore how they are connected, how their lives are intertwined, both in ways they are aware of, and in ways they don’t necessarily know about…yet. An angular extreme close-up photo of one interior page that shows one of the mosaic portraits, labeled with the name Thùy…a chunk of the text below about this character is only partially visible. An angular extreme close-up photo of one interior page that shows a chunk of the text about a character, but is only partially visible.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Honestly, a lot of wellness in the workplace stuff makes me annoyed, but this is really solid…library work specifics…looks at institutional changes needed, ways to demand that rest to build creativity/etc properly…looks at why you may still be stressed despite “self care”…good read.
bobbinewman.bsky.social Bobbi L. Newman 🏳️‍🌈 @bobbinewman.bsky.social · 11d
The 7 Types of Rest Librarians Actually Need and How to Get Them

I know many of us are struggling right now. Things are rough out there for libraries and for us as people living in the world. When we think about self-care or rest, most of us default to the physical, things like getting enough…
The 7 Types of Rest Librarians Actually Need and How to Get Them
I know many of us are struggling right now. Things are rough out there for libraries and for us as people living in the world. When we think about self-care or rest, most of us default to the physical, things like getting enough sleep, maybe squeezing in a workout, or taking a vacation day. And those things matter. But if you're someone who sleeps eight hours a night, takes your lunch away from your desk, and still feels depleted?
librarianbyday.net
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Great lesson!

Great book!
(It’s in my upcoming
#readaloud pile.)
loritecler.bsky.social Lori Tecler @loritecler.bsky.social · 10d
5th graders are studying poetry, so we read poems from HAIKU, EW! by Lynn Brunelle w/art by @julspatton.bsky.social, then they read articles about "gross" animals & wrote haikus to share what they learned. #TLSky #SchoolLibrary #kidlit #EduSky
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Cover of HAIKU, EW! by Lynn Brunelle with art by Julia Patton. Blue background with an image of a red lobster peeing out of its eyes. Student haiku about the frogmouth Student haiku about the kinkajou Student haiku about the upside down jellyfish
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Using my prep time to process this imp new #antiracism kit for the library (sent via collab btwn district collab & district librarian).

Emailed staff; encouraged team-teaching w/ me on this, or borrow it for solo teaching in class.

cld really complement my immigration/injustice/social justice unit
The kit bin opened up with resource binder of teaching ideas, plus various books splayed out. Including… A kids book about racism A kids book about systemic racism The Talk Race Cars The Boldest White The Artivist
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Then, I have lunch and realize that I’m just about to start my large Wednesday afternoon prep block—peace, calm, cataloguing and processing new books! Yes!
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social @ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 12d
I’ve spent my whole career saying, “I’m no shushing librarian,” but sometimes I’m sleep deprived and the tiny humans are seeming so loud and I kinda wish for a bit that I was a major shush librarian so I could have a more merciful peace just now.

(And then I get over myself.)
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
I’ve spent my whole career saying, “I’m no shushing librarian,” but sometimes I’m sleep deprived and the tiny humans are seeming so loud and I kinda wish for a bit that I was a major shush librarian so I could have a more merciful peace just now.

(And then I get over myself.)
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Super awesome funky quirky kid dressed as a traffic cone/pylon today…fully invested in showing up in my library every 10 minutes this afternoon, plonking himself down silently—I’ve been rolling with it, directing classes to avoid the pylon area but now I’ve locked him out—need to do some cataloguing
a man wearing a witch hat is surrounded by orange cones
Alt: Strange little GIF of a young kid wearing traffic cones on their feet, more on their arms, and one asked a hat.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM