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October 2016

Storytime

Owls for Babies Storytime Ideas

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]

Published on Oct 21, 2016
Posted by: pennypeck
Storytime Categories: Animals
Storytime Ages: Baby

Review

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]

Published on Oct 20, 2016
Posted by: pennypeck

Read-Alike

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]

Published on Oct 15, 2016
Posted by: pennypeck
Tags: Homeless, Poverty

Review

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]

Published on Oct 13, 2016
Posted by: pennypeck

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]

Published on Oct 9, 2016
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: ACL Events, Message from ACL
Tags: Self-published books

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]

Published on Oct 7, 2016
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Programming Ideas, storytime
Tags: Infopeople, Storytime

Review

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]

Published on Oct 6, 2016
Posted by: pennypeck

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]

Published on Oct 3, 2016
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Out of the Ordinary
Tags: Paul Galdone
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