Retired children’s librarian. Always resented celebrity children’s book authors who books we had to buy due to patron demand when when so many excellent new authors had worthy books we then had less money to buy. Our youth services head tried her best to stretch our budget.

I am listening to the Fever by @meganabott.bsky.social thanks to the presentation by @lauralippman.baky.social

In the Reagan era my pin said “The Moral Majority is Neither”

We appreciated your dazzle in Toledo. Lovely conversation with Ms Selking. I clapped
When you mentioned Betsy-Tacy as childhood favorites.

Whoa! Remember there are a whole lot of us in this demographic. It is a lot easier to unite with smart phones than it was with land lines. Most of us had 9-5 jobs that required our physical presence. Plus, we were raising kids to be much more polite than you