GreenBeanTeenQueen

It's the end of the year! My favorite part of year end festivities is all the best of lists. And of course, as a librarian and a reader, I have to make my own! I couldn't pick just a top ten, so I decided to include different categories and include a long list of what my top picks area. This are my personal favorites, books I've enjoyed for various reasons throughout the year, and what I felt were my personal top books of 2014. Also, it's hard to put them in a list order of what is number one, so I just did them alphabetically-I am a librarian after all! I'd love to hear more suggestions if you have favorites too. My TBR pile is never too long! Ha! Top 2014 Picture Books: The Baby Tree by Sophie Blackall -Seriously, I adore anything she illustrates, and this book is perfection when it comes to talking about babies with kids. Bedtime at the Nuthouse by Eric Litwin - Once I read this one aloud in storytime, I was sold! The Boy and a Jaguar ...

2013 was a crazy year for me in my book life!  In January I finished up my term on the 2013 Printz Committee. It was an amazing experience and I loved every minute of it. It was a ton of work, exhausting, and so much fun! I loved celebrating with our authors at annual and it was so amazing to listen to their speeches and know that I was part of the committee that honored their books! After Printz, I was an Audies judge which was a great way to take a break from committee work and listen to audiobooks.  I fell into the after committee reading slump but at the same time I started reviewing for Booklist and AudioFile, which kept me reading. And at the end of the year (unless I finish some books on New Year's Eve, which is highly possible!) even with a reading slump, I read 125 (chapter and audio) books and 155 picture books this year, so I guess it wasn't much of a reading slump after all! Even though there were a lot of books I missed that I wanted to rea...