tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post1784947125125261599..comments2023-12-25T00:38:19.500-08:00Comments on Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive): My Two Cents...Well, More Like Five Bucks.Sarah Stevensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-44948445066148580232007-04-19T19:07:00.000-07:002007-04-19T19:07:00.000-07:00AF, quoting makes me sound so intelligent!I was en...AF, quoting makes me sound so intelligent!<BR/><BR/>I was entirely inarticulate on this subject, but you've done a great job with this. And thank you, Jackie, Jules, Erin Amy, Hip Mama and Clouds for speaking up. We wouldn't be us without you...tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-90527658253921359582007-04-19T11:41:00.000-07:002007-04-19T11:41:00.000-07:00We inform each other and learn from one another, a...<I>We inform each other and learn from one another, and so yes, I do feel responsible for the quality of what appears here--I want it to be informative, or useful, or entertaining.</I><BR/><BR/>Yes! Well said! I'm with you.Andromeda Jazmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355192738014962965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-15517460596293854202007-04-18T19:54:00.000-07:002007-04-18T19:54:00.000-07:00Very nicely said. I couldn't agree with you more....Very nicely said. I couldn't agree with you more.Vivian Mahoneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285339307161020541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-74234127461156888612007-04-18T19:12:00.000-07:002007-04-18T19:12:00.000-07:00I work as a teacher in an urban school in Salt Lak...I work as a teacher in an urban school in Salt Lake City. After working all day, I come home to be with my three recently adopted daughters who are still mastering English and who are still becoming passionate readers. My first steps into the kidlitosphere were through Esme Codell's blog. I gradually expanded the blogs I read, and have often added and often pruned my personal blog roll.<BR/><BR/>I am very grateful for the constant flow of thoughtful recommendations provided by bloggers in kidlit land. Due to time constraints, and my reasons for being here in the first place, I often lurk, but rarely post. This discussion, however, merits the input of folks like me. To all the blog naysayers, I'd reply: give me some credit. I don't rush out and buy every book I see recommended. I don't read every blog with the same level of trust. Bloggers have to earn my trust to keep my attention. I have a nifty link to my local library in order to quickly request books I see recommended. But I only request a small fraction of all the books I read about, and I only share with my daughters and students the best of the books I check-out. But after these several levels of discrimination, my students and my girls end up with plenty of excellent books. Please know that the work that you do is well appreciated. My list of great books I first heard about on a kid lit blog (in the year I've been hanging around reading them) would likely include about 250 titles. That's a lot of books, which are now part of my teaching repitoire, books I can match and share with lots of great kids.AMY Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02452785773591343577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-73359259294525891252007-04-18T19:04:00.000-07:002007-04-18T19:04:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.AMY Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02452785773591343577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-36621022866629754622007-04-18T18:27:00.000-07:002007-04-18T18:27:00.000-07:00Nice post . . . kudos to you. :)Nice post . . . kudos to you. :)Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15192628745431017199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-55588817146899362562007-04-18T09:33:00.000-07:002007-04-18T09:33:00.000-07:00Thanks, Jackie and Jules!!Thanks, Jackie and Jules!!Sarah Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-458924659985074292007-04-18T08:55:00.000-07:002007-04-18T08:55:00.000-07:00Great post! I like how you address the blogging am...Great post! I like how you address the blogging ambivalence, too. There are days I wanna give it all up, but then you really connect with a reader or some such thing . . . and it's all worth it again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-39943680837131598312007-04-18T01:09:00.000-07:002007-04-18T01:09:00.000-07:00Yes, yes, yes and yes. To everything you said. I c...Yes, yes, yes and yes. To everything you said. I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly.Jackie Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11142876691306805769noreply@blogger.com