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Donalyn Miller is a leading expert on independent reading, children’s literature, and the author of two bestsellers, The Book Whisperer and Reading in the Wild. She is founder of the annual #bookaday event, co-founder with Colby Sharp of The Nerdy Book Club, and co-host of the monthly Twitter chat, #titletalk. Her most recent book is co-authored with Colby Sharp, Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids. Her articles have appeared in Education Week Teacher, The Reading Teacher, Educational Leadership, The Washington Post, and other prominent periodicals. Find Donalyn on Twitter @donalynbooks.
Kiera Parrott is the reviews director for Library Journal (LJ) and School Library Journal (SLJ), where she oversees the reviews of more than 14,000 titles annually. Before joining the journals, Kiera was head of children’s services at Darien Library (Connecticut) and began her career as a librarian at the New York Public Library. Find her on Twitter @libraryvoice.
Mr. Schu (AKA John Schu) is a blogger, a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic Book Fairs®. Every day is a giant book party for this teacher-librarian! In fact, Library Journal named him “The Xtreme Librarian” for the high level of exertion — along with some gears and stunts — he uses to get kids reading, and Instructor Magazine named him a “Cool Teacher” for rede ning what it means to be a teacher- librarian. John served on the 2014 Newbery committee, which named the
title Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures “the most distinguished contribution to children’s literature.” John is one of the contributors to The Creativity Project: An Awesomeatastic Story Collection and blogs daily at MrSchuReads.com. He also hosts the Scholastic Book Fairs web series Mr. Schu Goes to the Book Fair and co-edits the Reader Leader blog. Find him on Twitter @MrSchuReads.
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