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2007 Texas Reading Club Manual
Something About the Authors and Songwriters
Barrie Teague Alguire
Barrie Teague Alguire started telling stories at the age of three. As a teenager, she discovered the
world of theater. With a degree in drama from the University of Texas at Austin and an MLS
from Texas Woman's University, it is not surprising that she enjoys writing puppet plays and
readers theater scripts. Barrie is Coordinator of Children's Services for the Arlington Public
Library System and Supervisor of the Central Library's Children's Department. She wrote the
1999 manual, "Open a Book ... On With the Show!" and was author of several chapters of the
2005 manual, "Go Wild: Read!" Barrie was born in Texas but sailed away to many faraway
places for a number of years before returning to the Lone Star State. Scotland, Cyprus, Saudi
Arabia, Thailand and Kenya are some of the places she visited.
Miranda Bauer
Miranda Bauer, co-author of the Celebrations Chapter, is the Youth Services Librarian at the
Benbrook Public Library, where she has worked for the past five years. She previously worked
for the Hill County College Library and the Crowley Public Library. Miranda earned her MLS at
the University of North Texas.
Linda Befeld
Linda Befeld, author of "1- 2-3 GOLDFISH…An Interactive Story," is the Head of Youth
Services at the Pasadena Public Library. She is the past president elect of the Houston
Storyteller's Guild. Linda's stories are original, outrageous, and downright FUNNY. She
specializes in humor for adults, interactive storytimes for children, entertaining stories for
general audiences and tales with a Texas flavor. For more information about Linda, please see
www.houstonstorytellers.org/tellers.html.
Sara Bracht
Sara Bracht received her MLS from the University of North Texas. She worked for the Fort
Worth, Texas Public Library for two years before joining the Denton Public Library System as a
public services librarian with an emphasis on youth services. While at Denton, she spearheaded
the Katrina Blankets and Caps Project in which middle school students were enlisted to
volunteer their time crocheting items to give to victims of last year’s hurricanes. In addition to
her usual duties with children's programming and collection development, she is building a
circulating collection of "Story Totes" for the Spanish-speaking community.
Deborah Brightwell Brown
Deborah Brightwell Brown has been a youth service librarian for the past 13 years, working at
The Colony, Coppell, and Irving Public Libraries. Debbie has a B.S. degree in History from
Texas Woman’s University and received her MLS from the University of North Texas. At work
she loves leading Toddler Time and Mother Goose Time as well as helping children and teens
with their homework assignments. Away from work, Debbie enjoys traveling, swimming,
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