I am the author of four professional books for school librarians and classroom teachers. My fourth book Maximizing School Librarian Leadership: Building Connections for Learning and Advocacy is now available from ALA Editions.

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I am the author of three books for children and families. In addition, I maintain several Web sites that I authored or illustrated. See my Amazon.com Author Page.

News: "Books for Dallas Babies," a collaborative project of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library and Parkland Health and Hospital System, gave 12,000 copies of Vamos a leer/Read to Me to families of newborns in 2016. The partners continued this successful project in 2017 and 2018. Tarrant County/Fort Worth Public Library and the JPS Health Network began their "Books for Tarrant County Babies" partnership in January, 2017. The two inititiaves have a shared Web-presence at Books for Texas Babies.

Email Judi at: info@storytrail.com

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I am an ardent advocate for high-quality school library programs faciliated by professional school librarians centered on classroom-library collaboration for instruction, the thoughtful integration of authentic children’s and young adult literature and relevant technology tools into the classroom curriculum, and family literacy. My most recent op-ed "Literacy Matters Every Day" was published in the Arizona Daily Star on March 6, 2019.

Also, check out our crowdsourced video: Principals Know: School Librarians Are the Heart of the School.

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Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Elementary School Libraries: Mazimizing Your Impact
(ALA, 2013)

Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Secondary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact
(ALA, 2012)

Available now from
 ALA Editions