Ortiz, Simon J. People Shall Continue, The: 40th Anniversary Special Edition. Sharol Graves, Illus. Non-fiction. Children’s Bk. Pr./Lee & Low, 10/2017. [32]pp. PB $9.95. 978-0-89239-125-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-ADULT. Ortiz, Simon J. Pueblo Seguira’: Edicion Especial [continue reading]
January 2018
Musical Instruments Storytime
Musical Instruments LIBRARIES ROCK! is the 2018 summer theme for the Cooperative Summer Library Program: www.cslpreads.org/. For libraries using the music-themed summer reading/learning program, BayNews will offer sound and music storytime outlines between now and [continue reading]
Airplanes Storytime
Airplanes The 2018 summer reading/learning program from iRead and the California Library Association is READING TAKES YOU EVERYWHERE! – 2018: hwww.ireadprogram.org/ and calchallenge.org/ . A great way to focus on this for toddler and preschool [continue reading]
Seventh Wish Read-Alikes
The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner Tween novels featuring drugs and addiction Childress, Alice. A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich. Diaz, Alexandra. The Only Road. Elliott, Zetta. Bird. Fletcher, Ralph. Uncle Daddy. [continue reading]
New Voices Award
LEE & LOW BOOKS is proud to announce that Maham Khwaja of West Hollywood, California is the winner of the company’s eighteenth annual New Voices Award, given for a picture book manuscript by an unpublished [continue reading]
Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announced
2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners Announced Winners of the annual Sydney Taylor Book Award were announced by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Named in memory of Sydney Taylor, author of the classic All-of-a-Kind [continue reading]
Author Ursula Le Guin Dies
Author Ursula Le Guin Dies at Age 88: Fantasy author Ursula Le Guin died on January 22 at age 88 at her home in Portland, OR. The Berkeley native created the “Earthsea” series of science [continue reading]
When the Snow Falls Review
Sweeney, Linda Booth. When the Snow Falls, Jana Christy, Illus. Picture Book. Putnam/Penguin, 10/2017. [32]pp. $16.99. 978-0-399-54720-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. On a winter morning, a brother and sister awake to a window painted with frost [continue reading]