Have you heard Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor winning author Renee Watson will be the speaker at this year’s Effie Lee Morris Lecture? It’s coming up quickly — next Thursday, September 5 at [continue reading]
August 2019
Green Place to Be Review
Yazdani, Ashley Benham. Green Place to Be, A: The Creation of Central Park. Picture Book. Candlewick, 03/2019. [40]pp. $17.99. 978-0-7636-9695-5. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 1-5. In 1858, Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted won a contest to [continue reading]
Earth Day Storytime – Revised
Earth Day (revised) Earth Day (celebrated in April) and environmental concerns in general can be a really informative and fun theme for storytime. Even preschoolers can understand the importance of not polluting or littering, and [continue reading]
Mother Goose for Babies
Mother Goose 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 [continue reading]
Cinderella Liberator Review
Solnit, Rebecca. Cinderella Liberator. Arthur Rackham, Illus. Folklore. Haymarket, 05/2019. 29pp. $17.95. 978-1-608-46596-5. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-ADULT. A feminist reimagining of Cinderella, this story alters the narrative to focus on the liberation that comes with helping [continue reading]
Vegetable Gardening Storytime – Revised
Vegetable Gardening (revised) Vegetable gardens are a great way to encourage children to eat healthy foods. For those without gardens or yards, they can grow herbs (like parsley or chives) in pots. See if there [continue reading]
Sal & Gabi Break the Universe Read-Alikes
Sal & Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez Cervantes, J.C. The Storm Runner. Chokshi, Roshani. Aru Shah and the End of Time. Crowder, Melanie. The Lighthouse Between the Worlds. DasGupta, Sayantani. The Serpent’s [continue reading]
Sweeping Up the Heart Review
Henkes, Kevin. Sweeping Up the Heart. Fiction. Greenwillow, 03/2019. 183pp. $16.99. 978-0-06-285254-0. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. It’s 1999, and 12-year-old Amelia is frustrated by her rigid single father’s reluctance to seek any sort of adventure and [continue reading]