ACL Members Contribute to Children and Libraries, Winter 2021: Congratulations to two of our ACL members for recent articles in the Winter 2021, Vol. 19, No. 4 issue of ALSC’s Children and Libraries magazine. Ann [continue reading]
ACL Meeting This Friday, March 11
ACL Meeting Friday, March 11, 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 Our professional development [continue reading]
Squad Review
Tokuda-Hall, Maggie. Squad. Lisa Sterle, Illus. Graphic. Greenwillow/ Harper Collins, 10/2021. [213]pp. PLB $21.99. 978-0-06-294315-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 10-ADULT. Becca is the new girl at Piedmont High School and bonds instantly with popular Marley, who introduces [continue reading]
Ocean Ecology Storytime
Ocean Ecology Storytime Last month, 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 a craft project, [continue reading]
Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess Review
Gauld, Tom. Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess, The. Tom Gauld, Illus. Picture Book. N. Porter, 08/2021. [40]pp. $18.99. 978-0-8234-4698-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-3. In this beguiling fairy tale, a childless king with white skin [continue reading]
Camping Storytime – Revised
Camping Storytime – Revised Last month, 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 [continue reading]
The Last Cuentista Read-Alikes
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera Ahmed, Samira. Amira & Hamza. Bardugo, Leigh. Ruin and Rising. Bowling, Dusti. The Canyon’s Edge. Emerson, Kevin. Last Day on Mars. Gaiman, Neil. The Ocean at the End [continue reading]
Genius Under the Table Review
Yelchin, Eugene. Genius Under the Table, The: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Eugene Yelchin, Illus. Biography. Candlewick, 10/2021. 201pp. $16.99. 978-1-5362-1552-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-9. Yelchin’s memoir of growing up Jewish in 1960s Communist Leningrad, [continue reading]