Some links to help start the week off right:

• In honor of Black History Month, the Brown Bookshelf is featuring a different artist/author of color every day in February.
• School Library Journal released their 2013 Battle of the Books bracket!
• Maya Angelou on Shakespeare, reminding us about how literature touches us across race, age, and era.
• Speaking of Shakespeare, did you know he invented the word bedazzled?
• Cool breakdown of American dialects.
• Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird is a great source of writerly inspiration. Here’s a breakdown of some tips from that book.
• Another reason to love Dr. Seuss–he was a hat aficionado.
• The only good thing about voicemails–the fiction they can inspire.
• Attention, teachers and librarians! You could win a mini-grant from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.