Librarian's Quest

The resilience of children is clearly tested when they move from all that is familiar to them.  For many of them, the challenge is not in le...

It only takes one.  One shy glance, one delectable taste, one resonating note, one gentle touch or one sweet smell to effect a change.  We n...

As an educator, as a teacher librarian, all the children in any given school in any given year enter your classroom, the school library.  Th...

It does not matter how old you are.  It does not matter how many times you've done this in the past.  Each time, it's like starting ...

In this new home, to make a back yard space, a fenced-in place for Mulan, my chocolate Labrador, a tree service was hired to remove sixteen ...

We all know what it's like to start over.  It may be a new grade level at the beginning of a year.  Or we may have moved to a new commun...

It's impossible to remember a time when I have not been collecting something.  When I was younger it was rocks, seashells, pressed flowe...

Up until college I never had to make new friends or be in unfamiliar surroundings.  After graduation seeking a position lead to moving more ...