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 Alex Soop 🍁
Photo Credit: Dima Gulpa
Alex Soop is a Blackfoot storyteller. His urban home is Calgary and his ancestral home is the Kainai (Blood) Nation of southern Alberta. His debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky, is on the October 2022 Adult list!
Meet Alex and learn all about his love for libraries, book recommendations, and more in the interview below.
If you could visit any library in the world, where would you go?
Vatican City because they would contain many of the Ancient Roman literary works.
Which book would you choose to recommend to library patrons?
House of Reckoning by John Saul.
What does being a Loan Stars pick mean to you?
Means the world to an upcoming author who was literally a nobody writer just a few months back. I cherish this opportunity.
Thank you for answering our questionnaire, Alex!
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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