Bryan, Ashley. Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace. Biography. Atheneum/C. Dlouhy, 10/2019. 110pp. $21.99. 978-1-5344-044090-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-12. For most of his life, multiple award-winning writer/illustrator Bryan avoided revisiting [continue reading]
February 2020
Spring Board Book Round-up, Part I
Original Board Books Aroeste, Sarah. Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom. Illus. by Ayesha L. Rubio. Kar-Ben, 2020. [12p.] $6.99. 978-1-5414-4246-4. A Sephardic Jewish family celebrates Shabbat, introducing a Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) word on each page. Because [continue reading]
Do It Yourself Programming: Edible Science
Edible Science is a fun theme for a do it yourself program any time of the year, and works well to promote STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) as well as Makerspace concepts. [continue reading]
Cog Review
Van Eekhout, Greg. Cog. Beatrice Blue, Illus. Fiction. HarperCollins, 10/2019. 196pp. $16.99. 978-0-06-268607-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-7. Cog looks like a 12-year-old boy, but he is actually a seven-month-old robot designed to learn. He learns about [continue reading]
Call of the Wild Read-Alike
The Call of the Wild by Jack London Bowling, Dusti. 24 Hours in Nowhere. Carlson-Voiles, Polly. Summer of the Wolves. Ferrell, Ed. In the Valley of the Grizzly. George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. [continue reading]
Little Women Read-Alikes
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men. Atkins, Jeannine. Little Woman in Blue. Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks. Frederick, Heather Vogel. The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Lovelace, Maud Hart. Betsy-Tacy. Patron, Susan. [continue reading]
Great Britain Storytime
Great Britain Many of our communities have residents whose families originally came from Great Britain. For a craft project, make crackers used to celebrate New Years, or crowns to honor the Royal Family: www.educatall.com/page/1549/New-Year-s-Eve-Party-Crackers.html . [continue reading]
Central America Storytime
Over the next several months, we will be updating our Storytime themes on various countries around the world. The 2020 CSLP Reads summer reading theme “Imagine Your Story” will focus on fairy tales and myths [continue reading]