Today we meet Pam Coughlan, organizer for the Fiction Picture Books category:
I am the mother of two girls, ages nine and twelve, and a voracious
reader. Hence the Mother and Reader part of my blog name. At
MotherReader, I review children’s literature from board books to Young
Adult, but my heart is in picture books.
Along with my occasional
forays into national politics, I participate in many of the community
aspects of blogging in kids lit, including the Carnivals of Children’s
Literature, The Edge of the Forest, Poetry Friday, and my own 48 Hour
Book Challenge. I’m also the founder and, let’s say, president of the
tongue-in-cheek organization, Bloggers Against Celebrity Authors
(BACA), now its own blog at www.BACAoff.com.
In my real life I work part-time job as a children’s library assistant (a
children’s librarian without the master’s degree or chance of
promotion) in a public library. I’m also a movie lover, Girl Scout
leader, Northern Virginian, and humor aficionado.