2022 Beatty Awards Announced: The California Library Association announced the 2022 John and Patricia Beatty Literature Award in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, which will be awarded on June 4, 2022 at the CLA Conference. [continue reading]
April 2022
Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan Dies
Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan Dies: Patricia MacLachlan, who received the Newbery Medal for Sarah, Plain and Tall, died on March 31, 2022 at the age of 84. She wrote more than sity children’s books over [continue reading]
Bright Brown Baby Review
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Bright Brown Baby: A Treasury. Brian Pinkney, Illus. Scholastic⁄ Orchard, 01/2022. [64]pp. $18.99. 978-0-545-87229-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES TOD-PRE. Five poems celebrating African American babies make up this treasury divided into chapters. Along with [continue reading]
Outstanding! April 2022
Outstanding Books of the Month – April 2022 Each month we post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ at our previous meeting and nominated for our year-end Distinguished List. Members can see [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday, April 8, 2022
ACL Meeting Friday, April 8, 2022: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, March 11, 2022, from 10:00am-Noon over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84205853956?pwd=V3FQOG5sOEpPaVhxS0hOQzA4TlhEQT09 This month [continue reading]
Whales Storytime
Whales Storytime Recently, we started to offer some storytime themes to go along with “Oceans of Possibilities,” the theme of the 2022 Collaborative Summer Library Program: https://www.cslpreads.org/ . For an art project, make these [continue reading]
Playgrounds Storytime
Playgrounds Storytime Recently, we started to offer some storytime themes to go along with “Read Beyond the Beaten Path,” the theme of the 2022 iRead summer reading program: https://www.ireadprogram.org/ focusing on a summer camp at [continue reading]