National Library Week -- cakes

CakeWrecks usually has really weird cakes on display, but every Sunday they feature beautiful ones. Take a look at these wonderful Literary Cakes!

Yummy.

Enjoy

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Librarian of the Day -- Ann Wagner

As you may (or may not) know, this week is National Library Week. In celebration of this (AND to celebrate National Poetry Month), blogger Tina Nicholas Coury has an interview of Ann Wagner, youth Librarian for the Santa Monica Public Library Main Branch.

You can read this interview at Tina's blog, Tales from the Rushmore Kid.

Enjoy. -WendieO

Authors and more Authors

My writer friend, Katie Davis, periodically posts podcasts (which she calls, Brainburps) on her blog. For National Library Week she has a real goodie. She describes it like this:

"On Monday (today) I'll be posting my Library Love episode - an homage - for Library week. In it I have the authors below talking about how libraries or librarians did great things for them as children, and how it helped them grow into authors.
There are songs, jokes (Mordicai Gerstein tells one that cracks me up every time) and it's just a great homage to librarians, who are so slammed right now."

So click on over and enjoy. Or, if you want to tweet it, please use the hashtag #LibraryLove.

Thank you!
Katie DAvis
http://www.katiedavis.com

(Here is a list of all the authors featured in this Podcast. If you click on over to Katie's blog, you'll see that she has set up each of these names with links to THEIR blogs or websites. It's an author lovefest!)
 Laurie Halse Anderson
 Kathi Appelt
 Sarah Aronson
 Jeannie Brett
 Diane deGroat
 Sarah Dillard
 Erin Dionne
 Jan Donley
 Jody Feldman
 Judy Freeman
 Mordicai Gerstein
 Deborah Heiligman
 Amy Huntington
 Lita Judge
 Jarrett Krosoczka
 Sarah Darer Littman
 Eric Luper
 Ann Martin
 Wendy Mass
 Anne Mazer
 Jenny Meyerhoff
 Jenny Moss
 Bernard Most
 Micol Ostow
 Laura Ruby
 Peter Sis
 Hope Anita Smith
 Tanya Lee Stone
 Kyra Teis
 Leslie Tryon
 Kristin O‚Donnell Tubb
 Linda Urban
 Ned Vizzini
 Nancy Werlin
 Karen Romano Young
 Sara Zarr

Poem in your Pocket Day

Who knew?
It turns out that this week, which is National Library Week, is also Young Person's Poetry Week.

And today, Thursday the 17th, is National Poem in Your Pocket Day.

So remember to print or write something out and put it in your pocket so you can pull it out and read it to everyone you meet today.
Just becuz!

-wendieO