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]
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]
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]
I Must Betray You Review
Sepetys, Ruta. I Must Betray You. Fiction. Philomel, 02/2022. 319pp. $18.99. 978-1-9848-3603-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 7-12. Things are beyond hard in Romania in 1989. Stuck behind the Iron Curtain, 17-year-old Cristian Florescu and his family must [continue reading]
Upcoming Professional Development Sessions on Sex Education
Reminder – Professional Development Sessions on Sex Education: ACL is planning two free professional development sessions as part of our Zoom meetings, in place of our usual Spring Institute. These are planned for our June [continue reading]