ALA and Me

 

This is an illustration by David Small from Sarah Stewart’s book, The Library. I got some notecards with this illustration at the ALA conference this weekend in  Boston and it makes me feel like a kid and how easy it would be to slip into this person, walking while reading with a stash as back-up.  That was me.  I got a new stash of books at the conference. I got galleys of  Nancy Bo Flood’s Soldier Sister, Fly Home and Ben Rawlence City of Thorns. I also for the first time signed books at ALA. I met librarians and writers from all the places I’ve lived as I signed LUIS PAINTS THE WORLD  My favorite thing to do was meet people who asked me to sign a book for a child not yet born.