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December 2017

Storytime

Baths for Babies Storytime

Baths for Babies 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.  A baby-toddler storytime can be [continue reading]

Published on Dec 29, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck
Storytime Categories: Everyday things
Storytime Ages: Baby

Review

First Rule of Punk Review

Pérez, Celia C. First Rule of Punk, The. Fiction. Viking/Penguin/Random, 08/2017. 310 [+14]pp. $16.99. 978-0-425-29040-8. OUTSTANDING.  GRADES 4-7. Twelve-year-old Mexican American, zine-creating María Luisa—who goes by Malú—must move from Florida to Chicago for two years [continue reading]

Published on Dec 27, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck

Read-Alike

Magic Misfits Read-Alikes

The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris Carnival Life, Orphans, and Outlaws       Almond, David. The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas.   Beasley, Cassie. Circus Mirandus. Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Clark, Henry. [continue reading]

Published on Dec 26, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck

Evaluating Books about Police from Oakland PL

Evaluating Books about Police: Colleagues at the Oakland Public Library (CA) have developed Evaluating Children’s Books About Police: a toolkit for librarians and other evaluators of children’s literature to help library selectors evaluate books for [continue reading]

Published on Dec 20, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: News
Tags: Oakland Public Library

December BayViews Session this Friday, Dec. 22nd

Hi all- Even though the December meeting has been cancelled, some ACL members are planning to hold a copy editing session this Friday, so that we can still get the December BayViews published and sent [continue reading]

Published on Dec 19, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: ACL Events

Review

A Different Pond Review

Phi, Bao. Different Pond, A. Thi Bui, Illus.  Picture Book. Capstone, 08/2017. [32]pp. $15.95, 978-1-62370-803-0, PLB $23.32, 978-1-4795-9746-8. OUTSTANDING.  GRADES K-3. A boy describes a pre-dawn fishing trip with his father, who goes out before [continue reading]

Published on Dec 19, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck

ACL Meeting Cancelled for December; Next Meeting on January 12th

Message from our President Melissa Morwood: After much discussion, the ACL Board has decided it would be too difficult to try to hold a December meeting in the next few weeks, so we will next [continue reading]

Published on Dec 15, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: ACL Events

Review

Her Right Foot Review

Eggers, Dave. Her Right Foot.  Shawn Harris, Illus.  Non-fiction. Chronicle, 09/2017. 104pp. $19.99. 978-1-4521-6281-2. OUTSTANDING.  GRADES K-3. Full of random trivia, Eggers (This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, McSweeney, 2015) maintains the same flip tone [continue reading]

Published on Dec 13, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck
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