Loan Stars is the readers’ advisory tool that allows library staff across Canada to collaboratively select their favourite forthcoming titles. Using CataList, the online catalogue service and order management tool available for free to libraries, library staff can endorse the Fiction, Non-Fiction, Juvenile, and Young Adult titles they want to recommend to their patrons. The titles with the most recommendations become Loan Stars picks!
But who are the authors and illustrators behind these great Loan Stars reads?
We find out in our series, Meet the Loan Stars.
Meet Leona Prince 🍁
Photo credit: Carla Lewis Photography
Leona Prince is a Dakelh woman from the Lake Babine Nation and Nak’azdli and belongs to the Likh Tsa Mis Yu Clan. She is a descendant of Stiche and Chief Kwah. She is the mother of three amazing children and is a passionate award-winning educator.
In 2017, she was awarded the Alumni of the Year award for Professional Excellence by the Alumini Association of UNBC, her alma mater. She also received an Indspire Award for Educational Leadership at the 2018 Guiding the Journey Educator Awards.
You can find Leona Prince’s Be a Good Ancestor on the May & June 2022 Loan Stars Jr. list!
Read Leona’s interview below to learn all about the book she would recommend, what being a Loan Stars Jr. pick means to her, and more.
If you could visit any library in the world, where would you go?
Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian.
Do you have a favourite librarian, real or fictional?
I work with some pretty phenomenal Teacher Librarians making this a difficult choice.
Which book would you choose to recommend to library patrons?
What does being a Loan Stars pick mean to you?
It means that more children will see this book and the seeds that we have planted with our words will take root.
Thank you for answering our questionnaire, Leona!
Are you a Loan Stars-recommended author or illustrator who wants to be featured on our blog? Get in touch with us to get started.
Until next time!
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