The Morning RSS - The Welcome 2024 Edition 1.3.24
A collection of share-worthy items from our morning blog scroll.
Welcome friends and fellow bookies! Happy New Year!!
For Writers & Creators
Poetry lovers - do you follow the blogs of the Poetry Sisters? They share an original poem of a selected poetic form each Friday of the year. Learn more at Tanita Davis’ blog {fiction instead of lies}
… and you might consider joining Janet Wong and
for their “think poetry” workshop coming this month.
New Books & Book Lists
And so it begins … a new year, more new books. We won’t get them all, but we’ll share what we find!
The Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors has 12 - you guessed it - MG books to kick off your year: January 2024 New Releases
Off the Shelf has a list of 10 January e-Book Deals “for a year of endless possibilities.” One of the things that we love about Off the Shelf is that they give you all the options for choosing your format.
A little self promotion: The 2023 CYBILS Awards finalists have been announced. That’s 98 new books for your TBR. If you don’t know about the CYBILS, highly recommend Amanda MacGregor’s post at Teen Librarian Toolbox [and click the link for Karen’s post, too!]
Book Bans & Censorship
Week 1 of the new year. We’re continuing our quest to be positive.
Other Bookish Stuff
In reading Edith Campbell’s Happy New Year post at her blog Cotton Quilts, we learned about a new collaborative blog: Black Cotton Reviewers, “a site where Black educators, scholars and librarians review books based in the Black experience for middle grade and young adult readers.”
According to my sweet husband on 1 Jan, “the CYBILS are blowing up Twitter.” Not quite, but we’re excited to start the year with book joy. It’s the best. ~ Terry