Crayons Storytime – revised Crayons are an essential arts tool for young children. Instead of formal coloring sheets or art project with parameters, encourage free crayon art. This would include peeling crayons so that kids [continue reading]
Time for Kenny Review
Pinkney, Brian. Time for Kenny. Brian Pinkney, Illus. Picture Book. Greenwillow, 01/2021. [40]pp. $17.99. 978-0-06-073528-9. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-1. Two-time Caldecott honor winner Pinkney is both author and illustrator of this book. His artwork (acrylic and [continue reading]
Arts and Colors Storytime – Revised
Art and Colors Storytime – revised Instead of a craft project, hold a free art session. Let children try out watercolors, drawing, and any other type of free art rather than coloring sheets. Austin, Mike. [continue reading]
Dawn Raid Review
Smith, Pauline Vaeluaga. Dawn Raid. Fiction. Levine Querido, 03/2021. 217pp. $17.99. 978-1-64614-041-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. Sofia, whose father is Maori and mother is white, is intrigued by her older brother’s involvement with the Polynesian Panthers [continue reading]
Beatty Award Announced
Land of Cranes Wins Beatty Award: The Land of the Cranes, written by Aida Salazar and published by Scholastic Press, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the California Library Association’s John and Patricia [continue reading]
Special ACL Meeting Friday, April 9, 9:00-11:00am
Special ACL Meeting Friday, April 9, 2021, 9:00-11:00am for Mosaic Project training. This Oakland nonprofit provides anti-racism training to “build a more peaceful future by uniting people of diverse background.” This will be the first [continue reading]
Gone to the Woods Review
Paulsen, Gary. Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood. Biog. Farrar, 01/2021. 357pp. $17.99. 978-0-374-31415-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 7-12. Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet (Atheneum, 1987), offers this unusual episodic memoir written in third person [continue reading]
Author Beverly Cleary Dies
Award-winning author Beverly Cleary has died at age 104 on March 25, 2021 at home in Carmel Valley, California. Best known for the “Beezus and Ramona” books, as well as Newbery Medal winner Dear Mr. [continue reading]