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Bookelicious Curation
Every book on the Bookelicious site has been hand-curated by our curation team, taking into account factors including a book’s quality, popularity and recency, as well as third-party professional reviews and awards. Our curators also strive to ensure that our collection of more than 40,000 titles reflects the diversity of the children living in our communities – creating, in the words of Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, “mirrors and windows” for children to see themselves and to learn about others.
Our Curation Team
Dr. Lorien Hunter (PhD, Cinema & Media Studies, USC) leads a team of curators populated by teachers and librarians with deep knowledge of children’s books and what children like to read. Each curator is a specialist in her area of curation, focusing on one of our top-level categories, such as Animals, History & Biographies or Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Director of Curation and Content Strategy
Talia Squires
Curation Manager
Tanimola Somolu
Catalog Manager and Department Coordinator
Caitlin Unterman
Content Entry Coordinator
Bookelicious Children's Librarian
Director of School Library Collection Development
Collection Advisor
Lead Curator
Lead Curator
Lead Curator
Lead Curator
Lead Curator
Joanna Bunting
Custom Curator
Kristen Bradford
Custom Curator
Sophie Call
Custom Curator
Natalie Abbott
Custom Curator
Michelle Annett
Custom Curator
Based on Research
According to decades of research:
• There’s an almost perfect positive correlation between time spent reading and reading test scores;
• Greater reading volume is driven by reader motivation and engagement; and
• Reader motivation and engagement depend heavily on access to highly interesting, personally relevant books.
But to get the benefits of reading, children need books they will actually read. This can be a significant pain point for both schools and families. Thanks to our team of curators and our book-matching technology, it’s where Bookelicious excels.