ACL Meeting Friday, December 14, 2018: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, December 14, 2018, from 9am–12:30pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Dance Party Storytime
Dance Party Dance party programs are one of the latest innovations in storytime, encouraging movement and exercise as well as self-expression and the enjoyment of music. Try thinking of a fun name for this special [continue reading]
Button War Review
Avi. Button War, The: A Tale of the Great War. Fiction. Candlewick, 06/2018. 230pp. $16.99. 978-0-7636-9053-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-8. When bombs begin to fall on Patryk’s village in Poland in 1914, Russian soldiers leave as [continue reading]
New Fall Board Books, Part II
New Books with Flaps or Other Interactive Features Arrhenius, Ingela P. Where’s the Bear? Nosy Crow, 2018. [10p.] $8.99. 978-1-5362-0251-9. Arrhenius, Ingela P. Where’s the Penguin? Nosy Crow, 2018. [10p.] $8.99. 978-1-5362-0250-2. Like the previous [continue reading]
First Laugh – Welcome, Baby! Review
Tahe, Rose Ann and Nancy Bo Flood. First Laugh—Welcome, Baby!. Jonathan Nelson, Illus. Picture Book. Charlesbridge, 08/2018. 32pp. $16.99. 978-1-58089-794-5. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. First Laugh—Welcome, Baby! follows a multi-generational Indigenous family as a new baby [continue reading]
ACL Grant Report: Fairfax Public Library
The Fairfax Public Library (a branch of the Marin County Free Library system) was honored to be a recipient of the 2018 ACL mini grant! The library property is quite large and includes a beautiful [continue reading]
Trees for Babies Storytime
Trees 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]
Telephone Storytime
Telephone (revised) Kindergartners are asked to learn a parent’s phone number as one of the first tasks when they begin school. To help them prepare for kindergarten, hold a Telephone-themed storytime. For an art [continue reading]