If there was a theme to the last American Library Association Annual conference in Philadelphia it may have been, “I haven’t seen you in so LONG!” I think I may have uttered that exact phrase somewhere between ten and twenty times in the span of just a few days. Folks that I hadn’t seen in years and years were present and accounted for, including many of my old friends from when I lived in NYC a decade ago. And amongst them, to my utter delight, was Rebecca Stead. Of course, that made a fair...