@ExlibrisMrHunt
@exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social
Teacher-Librarian, K-5
Hands-on STEAM; kidlit fanboy; love graphic novels; inclusive col’n; he/him.
Co-host of The Sartorial Librarians Podcast.
@sartoriallibrary.bsky.social
Spotify: spoti.fi/3ANgYge
Apple: apple.co/4e4mM3h
Instagram: bit.ly/4dCh09b
Hands-on STEAM; kidlit fanboy; love graphic novels; inclusive col’n; he/him.
Co-host of The Sartorial Librarians Podcast.
@sartoriallibrary.bsky.social
Spotify: spoti.fi/3ANgYge
Apple: apple.co/4e4mM3h
Instagram: bit.ly/4dCh09b
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Hello new (or past) followers,
My bio says most of what you need to know, including that I’m co-host with @paulvinelli.bsky.social of a #LibrarianFashion & #kidlit podcast…
BUT,
here are 5 more “special”things (no particular order) I’d like you to know about content I share here:
1) I use ALT ⬇️
My bio says most of what you need to know, including that I’m co-host with @paulvinelli.bsky.social of a #LibrarianFashion & #kidlit podcast…
BUT,
here are 5 more “special”things (no particular order) I’d like you to know about content I share here:
1) I use ALT ⬇️
Getting to know me, @ExLibrisMrHunt…
[Ex Libris roughly can mean “from the library of” and used to be on bookplates (stickers) inside book covers so that people knew who the borrowed item belonged to…it’s Latin, ‘cause I’m all fancy and stuff.]
[Ex Libris roughly can mean “from the library of” and used to be on bookplates (stickers) inside book covers so that people knew who the borrowed item belonged to…it’s Latin, ‘cause I’m all fancy and stuff.]
Reposted by @ExlibrisMrHunt
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
Reposted by @ExlibrisMrHunt
I may have gotten a little carried away with how many books I did for this year's @npr.org Books We Love list for 2025. I CARE NOT! #kidlit 📚👍 apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I may have gotten a little carried away with how many books I did for this year's @npr.org Books We Love list for 2025. I CARE NOT! #kidlit 📚👍 apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
#ThisBookTheseReasons
I swear I could stock a fairly stellar personal library collection for a kid just from very funky books that Wide Eyed/Quarto puts out…
This is a very engaging #scienterrific insect book; fact-packed; great text; cool facts (not only standard fare); fab layouts; cool art!
I swear I could stock a fairly stellar personal library collection for a kid just from very funky books that Wide Eyed/Quarto puts out…
This is a very engaging #scienterrific insect book; fact-packed; great text; cool facts (not only standard fare); fab layouts; cool art!
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
#ThisBookTheseReasons
I swear I could stock a fairly stellar personal library collection for a kid just from very funky books that Wide Eyed/Quarto puts out…
This is a very engaging #scienterrific insect book; fact-packed; great text; cool facts (not only standard fare); fab layouts; cool art!
I swear I could stock a fairly stellar personal library collection for a kid just from very funky books that Wide Eyed/Quarto puts out…
This is a very engaging #scienterrific insect book; fact-packed; great text; cool facts (not only standard fare); fab layouts; cool art!
MORE TEA songs, folks?
Evening #LibrarianSoundtrack vibes, this song…tea:
open.spotify.com/track/15WaCk...
I always pause Storytimes w/ “commercial breaks” “brought to you by___” (whichever tea I’m sipping).
See (hear) also:
open.spotify.com/track/4mZN7A...
Bonus if song rec fits mellow vibes.
Evening #LibrarianSoundtrack vibes, this song…tea:
open.spotify.com/track/15WaCk...
I always pause Storytimes w/ “commercial breaks” “brought to you by___” (whichever tea I’m sipping).
See (hear) also:
open.spotify.com/track/4mZN7A...
Bonus if song rec fits mellow vibes.
The Tea Song
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
MORE TEA songs, folks?
Evening #LibrarianSoundtrack vibes, this song…tea:
open.spotify.com/track/15WaCk...
I always pause Storytimes w/ “commercial breaks” “brought to you by___” (whichever tea I’m sipping).
See (hear) also:
open.spotify.com/track/4mZN7A...
Bonus if song rec fits mellow vibes.
Evening #LibrarianSoundtrack vibes, this song…tea:
open.spotify.com/track/15WaCk...
I always pause Storytimes w/ “commercial breaks” “brought to you by___” (whichever tea I’m sipping).
See (hear) also:
open.spotify.com/track/4mZN7A...
Bonus if song rec fits mellow vibes.
1/
This morning in the library:
A squirrelly Gr 1 group came w/ a replacement teacher (so were extra wild), but got somewhat focussed once building their #LooseParts treasure map stories…then, turns as listener/storyteller…but, not so sure that major quality happened for this #StoryStudio session…
This morning in the library:
A squirrelly Gr 1 group came w/ a replacement teacher (so were extra wild), but got somewhat focussed once building their #LooseParts treasure map stories…then, turns as listener/storyteller…but, not so sure that major quality happened for this #StoryStudio session…
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
1/
This morning in the library:
A squirrelly Gr 1 group came w/ a replacement teacher (so were extra wild), but got somewhat focussed once building their #LooseParts treasure map stories…then, turns as listener/storyteller…but, not so sure that major quality happened for this #StoryStudio session…
This morning in the library:
A squirrelly Gr 1 group came w/ a replacement teacher (so were extra wild), but got somewhat focussed once building their #LooseParts treasure map stories…then, turns as listener/storyteller…but, not so sure that major quality happened for this #StoryStudio session…
More on #BookProcessing to withstand the rigours of kidlet readers…strengthening unique, tricky, ultra funky books (that many libraries might not add to collections) so that they achieve longevity…
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfUaMFD7/
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfUaMFD7/
TikTok - Make Your Day
vt.tiktok.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
More on #BookProcessing to withstand the rigours of kidlet readers…strengthening unique, tricky, ultra funky books (that many libraries might not add to collections) so that they achieve longevity…
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfUaMFD7/
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfUaMFD7/
Speaking of #BookProcessing ingenuity…(I was speaking of it, in another post)…here’s my system for super high interest books with super weak cover hinges and bad bindings…to attempt/achieve some longevity…
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfU542b2/
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfU542b2/
TikTok - Make Your Day
vt.tiktok.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Speaking of #BookProcessing ingenuity…(I was speaking of it, in another post)…here’s my system for super high interest books with super weak cover hinges and bad bindings…to attempt/achieve some longevity…
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfU542b2/
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfU542b2/
Thx!
I definitely don’t shy away from amazing books that take a little more processing ingenuity…
Here’s an example:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfU5c1Jr/
I definitely don’t shy away from amazing books that take a little more processing ingenuity…
Here’s an example:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfU5c1Jr/
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thx!
I definitely don’t shy away from amazing books that take a little more processing ingenuity…
Here’s an example:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfU5c1Jr/
I definitely don’t shy away from amazing books that take a little more processing ingenuity…
Here’s an example:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfU5c1Jr/
#ThisBookTheseReasons
Wow! The gatefold (?) in the middle of the story…a huge, four-page, upward foldout is quite spectacular (though I’ll need to do some creative strengthening processing before putting it into kids hands hands).
Wow! The gatefold (?) in the middle of the story…a huge, four-page, upward foldout is quite spectacular (though I’ll need to do some creative strengthening processing before putting it into kids hands hands).
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
#ThisBookTheseReasons
Wow! The gatefold (?) in the middle of the story…a huge, four-page, upward foldout is quite spectacular (though I’ll need to do some creative strengthening processing before putting it into kids hands hands).
Wow! The gatefold (?) in the middle of the story…a huge, four-page, upward foldout is quite spectacular (though I’ll need to do some creative strengthening processing before putting it into kids hands hands).
My latest #RecodeTheBarcode funkiness: On this book, the barcode just *has* to be broken too (functional one in top left corner).
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My latest #RecodeTheBarcode funkiness: On this book, the barcode just *has* to be broken too (functional one in top left corner).
I’m totally excited because we’re about to (next week or so) revisit this creative writing project I dreamed up with a Gr 5 teacher two years ago…pseudo-letters to Santa from various characters…all put together in an innovative #zine format—take a look…
Currently prepping Gr 5 team-teaching character study writing project
Inspiration: Jolly Postman books.
A sorta “zine” with
recycled envelopes (from all my book order labels) as 3 “pages”
Kids to write letters to Santa or family re: gifts wanted—but in the voice of different well-known characters…
Inspiration: Jolly Postman books.
A sorta “zine” with
recycled envelopes (from all my book order labels) as 3 “pages”
Kids to write letters to Santa or family re: gifts wanted—but in the voice of different well-known characters…
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m totally excited because we’re about to (next week or so) revisit this creative writing project I dreamed up with a Gr 5 teacher two years ago…pseudo-letters to Santa from various characters…all put together in an innovative #zine format—take a look…
Noticed lately that our #makerspace books weren’t circulating, so…display, display, displayed them, book talked them today for several classes; replenished each session; also gave out Illustoria mags as bonus books to artsy kids to encourage future checkouts of those fab things
#TLsky #skybrarians 📚
#TLsky #skybrarians 📚
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Noticed lately that our #makerspace books weren’t circulating, so…display, display, displayed them, book talked them today for several classes; replenished each session; also gave out Illustoria mags as bonus books to artsy kids to encourage future checkouts of those fab things
#TLsky #skybrarians 📚
#TLsky #skybrarians 📚
Tired…so tired…so…looking through some of my semi-defunct social media accounts…as one does in these moments…?
FOUND a clip waxing poetic re: Robo-Sauce, a fave Storytime #ReadAloud:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfj7Ec69/
See also, our @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social podcast (on hiatus) episode bit.ly/3DD9IEU
FOUND a clip waxing poetic re: Robo-Sauce, a fave Storytime #ReadAloud:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfj7Ec69/
See also, our @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social podcast (on hiatus) episode bit.ly/3DD9IEU
TikTok - Make Your Day
vt.tiktok.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Tired…so tired…so…looking through some of my semi-defunct social media accounts…as one does in these moments…?
FOUND a clip waxing poetic re: Robo-Sauce, a fave Storytime #ReadAloud:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfj7Ec69/
See also, our @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social podcast (on hiatus) episode bit.ly/3DD9IEU
FOUND a clip waxing poetic re: Robo-Sauce, a fave Storytime #ReadAloud:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfj7Ec69/
See also, our @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social podcast (on hiatus) episode bit.ly/3DD9IEU
Hey folks,
It’s been awhile since I shared this anywhere and I just felt like celebrating my all-time favourite #woodworking in the library project, the construction of the Storytime throne…
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfj7bNmT/
It’s been awhile since I shared this anywhere and I just felt like celebrating my all-time favourite #woodworking in the library project, the construction of the Storytime throne…
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfj7bNmT/
TikTok - Make Your Day
vt.tiktok.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Hey folks,
It’s been awhile since I shared this anywhere and I just felt like celebrating my all-time favourite #woodworking in the library project, the construction of the Storytime throne…
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfj7bNmT/
It’s been awhile since I shared this anywhere and I just felt like celebrating my all-time favourite #woodworking in the library project, the construction of the Storytime throne…
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfj7bNmT/
Reposted by @ExlibrisMrHunt
Best Graphic Novels 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Graphic Novels 2025 | SLJ Best Books
The 2025 Best Manga roundup features haunting sci-fi, slow-burn romance, and charming friendship tales for middle grade and YA readers.
www.slj.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Best Graphic Novels 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
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Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
From poo and tentacles to contemplative picture book biographies, this year’s picks for the Best Nonfiction for Elementary readers are filled with facts, information, and wonder.
www.slj.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
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Find all of SLJ's Best Books of 2025 lists here:
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Best Books 2025
We hope that SLJ’s Best Books of 2025, filled with adventurous and fantastical stories, silly and breathtaking picture books, true-crime mysteries and stirring romances, and universally consumed manga...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Find all of SLJ's Best Books of 2025 lists here:
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In today’s math #LEGOwall follow-up, *a Gr 2* (yesterday had a talk-to-text error) class added builds with addition math sentences… for someone who wanted to make it trickier, I asked them to create some sort of repeating colour pattern around the edge…
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
In today’s math #LEGOwall follow-up, *a Gr 2* (yesterday had a talk-to-text error) class added builds with addition math sentences… for someone who wanted to make it trickier, I asked them to create some sort of repeating colour pattern around the edge…
Totally unrelated to librarianing…
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Totally unrelated to librarianing…
Today in #LibrarianFashion:
It feels a little bit too on-the-nose, too matchy-matchy ticky-tacky to pair my bright blue glasses frames with my bright blue Chilliwack Mural Fest T-shirt with my bright blue pseudo-gym, shoes…
But I did it,
and I rocked it!
It feels a little bit too on-the-nose, too matchy-matchy ticky-tacky to pair my bright blue glasses frames with my bright blue Chilliwack Mural Fest T-shirt with my bright blue pseudo-gym, shoes…
But I did it,
and I rocked it!
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Today in #LibrarianFashion:
It feels a little bit too on-the-nose, too matchy-matchy ticky-tacky to pair my bright blue glasses frames with my bright blue Chilliwack Mural Fest T-shirt with my bright blue pseudo-gym, shoes…
But I did it,
and I rocked it!
It feels a little bit too on-the-nose, too matchy-matchy ticky-tacky to pair my bright blue glasses frames with my bright blue Chilliwack Mural Fest T-shirt with my bright blue pseudo-gym, shoes…
But I did it,
and I rocked it!
#ThisBookTheseReasons
1/
It’s soooo weird!
Just absolutely bizarro—in the best way.
It’s like a rabbit hole stream of consciousness evolved from musing on the modern trend of calling an aficionado of things a ___-head (sneakerhead, etc)…gone amok.
It’s a wild, charming world full of zany humour…
1/
It’s soooo weird!
Just absolutely bizarro—in the best way.
It’s like a rabbit hole stream of consciousness evolved from musing on the modern trend of calling an aficionado of things a ___-head (sneakerhead, etc)…gone amok.
It’s a wild, charming world full of zany humour…
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
#ThisBookTheseReasons
1/
It’s soooo weird!
Just absolutely bizarro—in the best way.
It’s like a rabbit hole stream of consciousness evolved from musing on the modern trend of calling an aficionado of things a ___-head (sneakerhead, etc)…gone amok.
It’s a wild, charming world full of zany humour…
1/
It’s soooo weird!
Just absolutely bizarro—in the best way.
It’s like a rabbit hole stream of consciousness evolved from musing on the modern trend of calling an aficionado of things a ___-head (sneakerhead, etc)…gone amok.
It’s a wild, charming world full of zany humour…
Was just thinking about this cool book again, re: types of librarianship, #LibrarianFashion, different folks who choose library work and why…
Recently learned of this celebratory and inspiring (+ #LibrarianFashion) book’s existence and luckily was able to reserve it through my local public library system:
This Is What A Librarian Looks Like.
{ see inside: page flip video of book over here: x.com/exlibrismrhu... }
This Is What A Librarian Looks Like.
{ see inside: page flip video of book over here: x.com/exlibrismrhu... }
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Was just thinking about this cool book again, re: types of librarianship, #LibrarianFashion, different folks who choose library work and why…
Recently learned of this celebratory and inspiring (+ #LibrarianFashion) book’s existence and luckily was able to reserve it through my local public library system:
This Is What A Librarian Looks Like.
{ see inside: page flip video of book over here: x.com/exlibrismrhu... }
This Is What A Librarian Looks Like.
{ see inside: page flip video of book over here: x.com/exlibrismrhu... }
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Was just thinking about this cool book again, re: types of librarianship, #LibrarianFashion, different folks who choose library work and why…
Reposted by @ExlibrisMrHunt
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM