Still Sleeping

Oh, my. I am seriously wiped out! I have done nothing more than sleep and read since I returned from the conference yesterday afternoon. I've slept most of the afternoon away, and it feels divine!

I don't know if I've ever written about my friend Lynne Farrell Stover before, but I was hoping that she'd be at our state conference again, and she was! In fact, I was in the lobby talking with our organization's president, and she hit me on the back and said, "Remember me!?" REMEMBER her?!!? Seriously, I think about her all the time and have told many colleagues about her fabulous books. I was flattered that she remembered ME!

This is the first of her books of Magical Library Lessons. It has tons of great ideas in it, and the following books (available at www.upstart.com) are great, too! I bought a set of them and asked her to sign them for me; I already have a set at my library, but I decided that I needed my own personal copies. One of the books I won at the silent auction at the conference, and that makes it extra special.

We sat together at the author dinner (we did last year, too, and are both traditional girls!) and just picked up where we left off. The other people were very curious about her writing, and I felt like the prop girl, pulling out her books as she talked about them. Too funny!

If you're a librarian and you're reading this, check out her books. In particular, I like how practical her ideas are--not pie in the sky theoretical concepts that are impossible to implement in the real-life classroom. One of the best sessions I attended was one of hers for using the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. She had so many great ideas for incorporating economic concepts into lessons after reading the book. I'm going to find out when the movie is released and maybe do a One School/One Book/One Movie event. Hmmm....that means I'd have to read it 36 times. Sigh...now that's real-life librarianship!