Storytimes for babies and toddlers offer an opportunity to model great read-aloud techniques for parents, and gives them the confidence to read to their children every day. At times, a baby-toddler storytime will be followed [continue reading]
October 2016
There’s a Bear on My Chair Review
Collins, Ross. There’s a Bear on My Chair. Ross Collins, Illus. Picture Book. Nosy Crow, 2015. [28]pp. $16.99. 978-0-7636-8942-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-K. Mouse finds his favorite chair occupied by Bear. The chair is not large [continue reading]
Crenshaw Read-Alikes
Read-alikes for Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate Tween novels featuring homelessness and poverty Balliett, Blue. Hold Fast. Bauer, Joan. Almost Home. Bukiet, Melvin Jules. Undertown. Carey, Janet Lee. The Double Life of Zoe Flynn. Clement, [continue reading]
Some Kind of Courage Review
Gemeinhart, Dan. Some Kind of Courage. Fiction. Scholastic, 01/2016. 236pp. $16.99. 978-0-545-66577-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. In Washington State in 1890, 12-year-old Joseph Johnson—no stranger to loss after his mother and sister die by disease, and [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday Oct. 14, 2016 in Oakland
ACL Meeting Friday, October 14, 2016: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, October 14, 2016, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Free Webinar: New Books For Storytime
New Books for Storytime Free Webinar: Penny Peck will be presenting new picture books that are perfect for storytime in a free webinar hosted by Infopeople. Titles include those that focus on: -Cumulative, circular, sing-along, [continue reading]
Bridge to the Wild Review
O’Connell, Caitlin. Bridge to the Wild: Behind the Scenes at the Zoo. Timothy Rodwell, Photographer. Non-fiction. Houghton, 08/2016. 202pp. $18.99. 978-0-544-27739-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-8. Experience the zoo like never before with O’Connell’s Bridge to the [continue reading]
Out of the Ordinary: Paul Galdone’s “Folktale Classics” Reissued
Out of the Ordinary “Folktale Classics” by Paul Galdone, HMH, $8.99 each. www.hmhco.com/at-home/featured-shops/popular-series/folk-tale-classics-series Often folktales are too long to read at preschool storytimes, but Paul Galdone’s classic tales are just the right length for [continue reading]