Notes on June 2021

In June . . .
. . . Hugo Cabret tried out some new tech.
He (and his his friends) got ahold of the Voila AI Artist app. Things got weird.
. . . we learned about Maurice Sendak’s “one idea”.
I loved this 1982 interview with the master.
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. . . we discussed the future of a well-known series.
Librarians gotta make decisions, like the decision to keep or weed The 39 Clues series.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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