In the pre-COVID days, few things would make me more anxious than an unknown patron walking up to my desk and asking for reader’s advisory on a particular topic or genre. Despite the fact that I love children’s books of all kinds, read hundreds of books a year, and will talk your ear off about my favorite authors unprompted, the words “Can you recommend…?” make my brain shut down. I immediately forget every book I’ve ever read, liked, or even heard of. If children’s librarians can get reader’s advisory-related stage fright, then I’ve got it in spades. In the Before Times, my favorite method of reader’s advisory was to walk up and down the aisles with a patron, chatting with them about what books they like, and which ones they don’t, while I quickly scan the shelves for a title that will reboot my library brain. Thanks to COVID, however,…