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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]