News @ Storytrail.com – Judi Moreillon, Author and Literacies and Libraries Consultant

This image is the book covers for my children's books.

Children’s Books News
Read to Me / Vamos a leer received a recent review, which was posted in support of the 10^th anniversary of #ReadYourWorld. The Family Reading Partnership in Ithaca, New York, shares Vamos a leer/Read to Me in their prenatal visit with expectant families. Star Bright Books, illustrator Kyra Teis, and I are delighted they have continued for many years to use our book to launch their “Books to Grow” project.

Advocacy News
On Friday, June 27, 2025, I participated in a Read-In at the Philadelphia School District Headquarters. Along with 130 other librarians and supporters from Philly and across the U.S., we were there to spotlight the critical literacy and library needs of students. The Philadelphia Alliance to Restore School Librarians (PARSL) is working with decision-makers to hire state-certified school librarians to provide equitable school library services for all students in the district. I was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding the unconscionable choice to deny students access to ideas, information, and library professionals.

This image is the book covers for my professional books.

Professional Publications News
I have edited and contributed to Radical School Librarianship: A Global Response for Facet Publishing in the UK. I solicited chapters from school librarian leaders from around the globe to share their efforts to defend core values: equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom. The book will be published in September, 2025.

For more information, you can read about our book on the Facet Publishing website or the ALA Store.

Thank you to the school librarian leaders who were able to attend the Supervisors Section meeting at the American Library Association Conference in Philadelphia. I appreciate you for sharing your successes, challenges, and goals.

In August, 2023, I published three blog posts on the Knowledge Quest Blog regarding the “science of reading” focus on phonics. The Right to Read Film: Part 1: What Every School Librarian Should Know; Part 2: The Science of Reading:” Here We Go Again; and Part 3: In Search of The Elusive Silver Bullet.

My article “Literacy Learning Leaders Don’t Sell Their Skill Set Short,” published in the February, 2021 issue of Teacher Librarian, earned a place on the American Library Association Library Instruction Round Table’s (LIRT) 2021 Top 20 Library Instruction Articles.

Co-researchers Pam Harland, Anita Cellucci, and I published our content-analysis study of the perspectives and priorities of exemplary school administrators regarding the roles and responsibilities of school librarians in relationship to the National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries (AASL 2018). The article “Take Action: A Content Analysis of Administrators’ Understandings and Advocacy for the Roles and Responsibilities of School Librarians” was published in School Library Research in December, 2021. We also presented our findings in a Research Empowering Practice session at the AASL National Conference in October, 2021, in Salt Lake City.

Core Values in School Librarianship: Responding with Commitment and Courage is available from Libraries Unlimited/Bloomsbury.

My article “School Librarians as Literacy Partners: Taking Action on the What’s Hot in Literacy Report” appeared in the March/April 2021, issue of Literacy Today.

My blog at SchoolLibrarianLeadership.com is now an archive.