About This Lesson
Meet PBS Resident Librarian and all around super-star, Mychal Threets on StoryMakers! Tune in to learn about how Mychal decided to become a librarian, discover his favorite kids books, and share in his infectious love of libraries. Draw along with Rocco and Mychal as they imagine picture book characters with dramatic hair styles — and don’t forget to share your creations with us so we can add them to the KidLit TV Art Gallery!
About Mychal Threets
Mychal Threets is a librarian, literary ambassador, and the library’s number one fan (according to himself, admittedly). He grew up in Fairfield, CA, right between Sacramento and San Francisco. He was raised in his local library as a home-school kid.
He got his first library card at the age of five and was hooked on libraries from there. He got his first library job as a library shelver at the library he grew up in and worked his way up to become Supervising Librarian of that very same library.
He is very open about his mental health. He talks about it in hopes that it’ll help others in their mental health journey. He is adamant about encouraging people to believe him when he says he’s happy they are here.He considers it an honor to the library people who raised him that he is a recipient of the 2023 “I Love My Librarian” award from the American Library Association, one of School Library Journal’s 2024 Movers and Shakers, and one of TIME Magazine’s 2024 Next Generation Leaders.
If you’re interested in having Mychal visit your school or attend your event, contact him through social media or at The Author Village!
