Penny Peck

Penny Peck has been a children's librarian for 20 years; before that, she was Snow White and Mother Goose at Children's Fairyland in Oakland, ran a nightclub, worked as the wardrobe mistress for the Berkeley Ballet, and was an agent for a standup comedian. Her experience includes performing thousands of storytimes, leading hundreds of book club discussions for students in grades 4-12, conducting hundreds of school tours and assemblies, reviewing children's books and media, and conducting the Performers' Showcase for auditioning library entertainment. She is editor of "BayNews," the newsletter for the Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California, www.bayviews.org. She is the Senior Librarian Youth Services for the San Leandro Public Library, an adjunct professor at San Jose State's Masters of Library Science program, and author of the book Crash Course in Children’s Services (Libraries Unlimited, 2006).