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Meet Annette Whipple!
Groundhog Day has come and gone and here we are on Valentine’s Day sharing some book love in our latest BALLER Profile! Every Wednesday you can look forward to reading interviews with authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more.
This week it is my pleasure to introduce you to Annette Whipple!
Meet Joan Marie Galat!
We hope you all are staying warm and welcome to a new instalment of BALLER Profiles!
Every Wednesday you can look forward to reading interviews with authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more. This week we meet multi-talented and prolific author Joan Marie Galat…
Book of the Week: Where Do You Poop? by Agnese Baruzzi
Welcome to our inaugural Book of the Week post! The Head Alien and I agreed that it would be fun to do a regular feature to showcase books we think you all should know about and give some extra love to books where needed…
Bread and representation
Back on October 15, we had a book launch up at the local indie bookstore where our Head Alien hangs one of his many hats on the regular. He arrived to have a fellow bookseller exclaim “Hey! Did you know you’re in the book?”
No, no he did not…
Finally, time for some summer reading…
Yeah, it’s been a hot minute, but between work and school and life we here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library may have gotten a bit sidetracked from our (ir)regularly scheduled additions to our digital stacks.
But we have not forgotten you, beloved patrons!
Happy Sesame Street Day!
Premiering on November 10, 1969, Sesame Street has been a cornerstone of my reading life for my entire life. “C is for Cookie” is one of my earliest alphabet memories and The Monster at the End of This Book helped set me on the path that led to a Master of Arts on the design of books and now has me going back to school again for a Library degree.
Yeah, no, we’re still here!
Life has been a bit crazy here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities. But we couldn’t let too much time pass without popping in to our beloved library and saying hi!
So for today, a quick gallery post of some of our recent acquisitions to share with all of you.
International Day of Sign Languages
Proclaimed by the UN General Assembly “in order to raise awareness of the importance of sign language in the full realization of the human rights of people who are deaf,” the International Day of Sign Languages was declared in part to recognize that “early access to sign language and services in sign language, including quality education available in sign language, is vital to the growth and development of the deaf individual and critical to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals.”
Happy Underwear Day 2021!
We here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library have been a bit remiss in keeping up with our Bookish Calendar posts, but this seemed like a critical day to commemorate.
As such, we took a look under there on our shelves and pulled up Jared Chapman’s Vegetables in Underwear to share.
Small Press Saturday: Portage & Main Press and HighWater Press
Happy Saturday!
It has been a week and this post is coming late in the day, but better late than never. This week less is more – the post is short, but Portage & Main Press and HighWater Press are awesome and do incredible work that you need to check out…
Small Press Saturday: Nimbus Publishing
We are heading out to the east coast of Canada today to say “hello” to Nimbus Publishing. This independent press is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto and specializes in content relevant to the Atlantic provinces. Which does not mean that their books are not of interest outside of the Atlantic provinces…
Small Press Saturday: Annick Press
Happy Saturday! It’s Small Press Saturday, the Canadian Children’s Book Week edition!
We are wrapping up our celebration of Canadian Children’s Book Week and I figured it would be a great time to introduce you to Canadian Children’s Publisher Annick Press.
