Book Bag: Friendswood Youth Services Blog

Today at about 3:15 a teen patron named Anna turned in the reading log that pushed your Total Hours Read to 5,000 hours!!! You know what this means, right? On Saturday night at the End of Summer Party you will be the first to see my purple hair streaks! Truthfully, I'm a little nervous now that the time is here. I mean, I'm a grown woman (hard to believe, right?) and I'm going to have purple in my hair. Purple! But I made a promise, and I'm not going to back out now. Especially since Angelica has already done purple tips and Merritt is planning to as well. Stay tuned for the video, which should be posted Saturday afternoon! DFTBA, Your soon-to-be-purple-haired librarian Sti

Or, an editor of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (p.s. 'diction' is one of my favorite words) This is one of those things I know have been bothering you for a long time. What is the proper plural form of the word 'octopus'? I will definitely be using the third form from now on! DFTBA, Sti

Okay, blogging every Monday is turning out to be difficult! Okay, here we go. Today's movie is a double feature. In 1964 Roald Dahl wrote a little book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , about a boy named Charlie Bucket and his adventures in the fantastic candy factory of the strange and mysterious Willy Wonka. I'm sure you've heard of it. Lots of other movies have been made from Mr. Dahl's books--but I'll save those for other blog entries. So far, there have been 2 movies based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And there seems to be a lot of controversy about which is better/more scary. My favorite is the original movie that came out in 1971 starring Gene Wilder called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory . Other people prefer the new movie starring Johnny Depp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . Personally I think Depp (though I love him) is a creepier Willy Wonka. Also, he doesn't sing. I have a problem with that. But that's just my opinion.

Sorry about not posting on Monday, we had our Volunteer Appreciate Lunch and I also had to return the indoor planetarium to the Lunar and Planetary Institute, after that the day just seemed to fly by! Anyway, I'm really excited about this movie coming out on August 13. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is directed by one of my favorite directors, Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Spaced) and stars the usually hilarious Michael Cera. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is based on a series of graphic novels by Bryan Lee O'Malley about a 25 year old slacker named Scott Pilgrim and his exploits/adventures with his band, his roommate, the new girl he's seeing and her 7 Evil Exes that he must battle in order to date her. These are young adult books that lean a little more into the 'adult' of young adult, and the movie is rated PG-13. I know that's fine for most of my readers, but I wanted to put a little disclaimer here just in case, if you're not old enough or don

Hello, it's me again! Soon I'll be planning the Young Adult programs for the fall. These happen on Tuesdays and Fridays at 4:30. Tuesdays are reserved for video games and Fridays are usually crafts or snacks or movies. If there's any craft or snack or movie you would like to do/eat/see feel free to leave it in the comments or email me at librariansti@gmail.com I'm always open to suggestions! Another thing I am thinking about doing is a film workshop on the Tuesday evenings that we don't have TAG meetings. Would anyone be interested in writing a script, casting, acting, making sets, costuming, doing make up, directing, filming and editing a short film with other teens? I think it would be a lot of fun! Let me know! DFTBA, Sti

Okay, it's you turn to decide. Which of these videos is better/more hilarious/more helpful for libraries. The first is a quick video of the Old Spice man Isaiah Mustafa giving libraries a shout out: And the second is sort of a spoof on the commercials, made by an academic library called Harold B. Lee Library: It's hard for me to choose really....so you tell me! DFTBA,Sti

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines doppelganger as: 1 : a ghostly counterpart of a living person 2 a : double 2a b : alter ego b c : a person who has the same name as another *I* define doppelganger like this: Taylor and one of the illustrations for the Summer Reading Club :)

It's Movie Monday again! I missed last week since we were closed but now I'm back! These entries will be dedicated to movies based on books. Upcoming movies and older movies worth remembering and the books that inspired them. I'll discuss what I think are the pros and cons of the movie vs. the book (and I want to hear your comments, so don't hesitate to speak up!). If there are any movies you think I should write about, shoot me an email at librariansti@gmail.com! But before we get to our newest featured book movie, I just wanted to announce that the teens in the Teen Reading Club have read a total of 3200 hours so far!! You guys are seriously blowing my mind! Seriously! Okay, onto the movie of the day. I put off watching the trailer for this until just now because I wanted to give you my opinions right as I had them. So here they are, my thoughts on the trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1: All I can say is...wow. It's been a few years sinc

Yesterday I hosted a Photo Editing program at the library for 11-14 year olds, I showed everyone a few (free!) websites where you can edit, decorate, or destroy photos online. So that you don't forget the websites, I'm posting them here: My favorite fotoflexer.com/ and the less free but totally cute www.picnik.com Here's an example of things you can do to your photos on these sites: Me and my sister Before aaaaaaaaaaaand After a bit of fun on Fotoflexer If you send me your before and after photos I'll post those too! DFTBA, Sti