Meeting Reminder: Our September meeting will be held Friday, September 14, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. We’re back in Oakland this month, in the meeting room at the Main Library, 125 14th St. You can [continue reading]
September 2012
Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award
The 2013 Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award winners are Jan Greenburg & Sandra Jordan Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, Orbis Pictus Award winner and Sibert Honor title (both nonfiction honors); Action Jackson, Sibert Honor title [continue reading]
Outstanding!
Every month, we’ll post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ and nominated for our Distinguished List at our previous month’s meeting. Members can see full reviews of these books and many more [continue reading]
PEN Awards Announced
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000): To an author of children’s or young-adult fiction, who has published at least two books, to complete a book-length work-in-progress. Judges: Daniel Handler, Lyn Miller-Lachman, and Neal Shusterman. WINNER: [continue reading]
Bats Storytime Ideas
Bats Bats can be fascinating to preschoolers, and not just at Halloween! For a bat craft, make these fun bats using paper cups. Songs: THIS LITTLE BAT (tune: “Mulberry Bush”) This little bat flaps its [continue reading]
Tigers Storytime Ideas
Two new picture books featuring tigers inspired this storytime theme (Oh, No! by Candace Fleming and It’s a Tiger! by David LaRochelle). It offers a great opportunity to point out to older preschoolers that tigers [continue reading]
Zombie Storytime Ideas
If your parents don’t mind “scary” storytimes, this could be a fun theme near Halloween. It also might be best suited to a storytime for school-age children. For a craft, make one of these paper [continue reading]