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April 2013

Distinguished Books List

ACL’S Distinguished Books List Now Available: Below is a link to a place where you can view and download the 2012 ACL Distinguished Books list.  This PDF document is quite large, so please take note [continue reading]

Published on Apr 29, 2013
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Message from ACL
Tags: ACL Distinguished Books List

ACL Dorothy Helfeld Fellowships Available!

Children’s Librarianship – Is it for you? The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California (ACL) invites students of children’s librarianship and/or children’s literature to apply for one of three annual membership scholarships. Discover a [continue reading]

Published on Apr 25, 2013
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: ACL Events, Message from ACL, Professional Development
Tags: Dorothy Helfeld Fellowships

Review

Review of the Week

Idle, Molly.  Flora and the Flamingo.  Molly Idle, Illus.  Pic. Bk.  Chronicle, 2013. [44]p. $16.99.  978-1-4521-1006-6.  OUTSTANDING.  GRADES PRE-1. What do a slightly pudgy little girl in flippers, bathing suit, and cap and a graceful [continue reading]

Published on Apr 24, 2013
Posted by: pennypeck
Tags: Flora the Flamingo, Molly Idle

Konigsburg, Feller Bauer Die, ALSC Workshop and Summer Reading Lists

Caroline Feller Bauer Dies at age 77:  Caroline Feller Bauer died April 15, 2013, at the age of 77, in Miami, Florida, where she lived for many years.  She wrote several books used by children’s [continue reading]

Published on Apr 22, 2013
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: News, Obituary, Professional Development
Tags: ALSC, Caroline Feller Bauer, E.L. Konigsburg, Summer Reading, Workshops

2013 Beatty Award Goes to The Camping Trip That Changed America

The 2013 Beatty Award will be given to Barb Rosenstock for The Camping Trip That Changed America (Dial, 2012), illustrated by Mordecai Gerstein. This nonfiction picture book details the camping trip of naturalist John Muir and President [continue reading]

Published on Apr 19, 2013
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Awards, News
Tags: Barb Rosenstock, Beatty Award, California Library Association, Mordecai Gerstein, The Camping Trip That Changed America

Review

Review of the Week and Children’s Lit Festival at UC Berkeley

Review of the Week:  Blackwood, Sage.  Jinx.  Fic.  HarperCollins, 2013. 360p. $16.99.  978-0-06-212990-1.  OUTSTANDING.  GRADES 5-8. Young orphan Jinx is abandoned by his stepfather in the mysterious and dangerous Urwald forest where “you grow up [continue reading]

Published on Apr 17, 2013
Posted by: pennypeck
Tags: Children's Literature Festival, Jinx, Sage Blackwood, UC Berkeley

SRP Film Showing, ACL’s Food Bibliography

Is your library using the “Reading Is So Delicious!” summer reading program theme?  If so, be sure to check out the “Eat the Library” Bibliography from ACL’s 2012 Institute: http://www.bayviews.org/institute/2012bibliography.pdf Also, the California Library Association [continue reading]

Published on Apr 15, 2013
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Media Watch, Message from ACL, News, Programming Ideas
Tags: A Place at the Table, Summer Reading Program

Handouts on “We’re History” from the ACL Institute

Those who attended yesterday’s ACL Institute “We’re History” enjoyed learning about how to share history with children – especially family history, and local and California history. If you could not attend, be sure to check out the [continue reading]

Published on Apr 13, 2013
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: ACL Events, Professional Development
Tags: ACL Institute
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