Fri, September 18th, 2009
Time Marches On
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy and Lynn: Our Focus Group is aging! Here are Lynn’s twin grandsons Mason and Hayden on their first birthday. We first used these pictures in the 6th grade library orientation to illustrate the rule about not eating at the computers! Cindy still uses these even though the twins are growing up fast.
Mason [...]
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Tue, September 1st, 2009
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Catching Fire, the sequel to Hunger Games, published today and so did a Borders video book club that Cindy and some Holland and Grand Haven teens were selected to particpate in with author Suzanne Collins. Cindy and four teens traveled to the east side of the state, met with Suzanne, were sent into “makeup,” and [...]
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Mon, August 24th, 2009
Grand Rapids Press Sunday Profile features Cindy
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Our local newspaper, The Grand Rapids Press (Mich.) runs a weekly feature called the Sunday Profile that provides a lengthy biography of someone in the community that has a passion for what they do. Earlier this summer I was surprised by Lynn’s collusion with one of the reporters who has covered our library exploits [...]
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Tue, July 21st, 2009
Follow us on Twitter
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Follow Bookends on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookendsblog
Don’t worry, we’re not going to get addicted to Twitter. We like getting more than 140 characters for our blog posts. We are, however, going to try to remember to tweet when we post a new review here at Bookends and we’ll be adding some news and comment about youth books [...]
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Thu, January 29th, 2009
Kate and Kathy
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Our hearts are heavy today with the news of the tragic accident at the close of the ALA Conference that took the lives of two talented librarians and friends of children’s literature, Kathy Krasniewicz and Kate McClelland. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and close friends today and in the difficult days to [...]
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