Picnic Storytime Ideas – Revised There are several fun picture books about picnicking, and songs including “Teddy Bear’s Picnic” and “Ants Go Marching.” Make woven paper mats to sit on: Newspaper Sit-upon : 6 Steps [continue reading]
Sick/Get Well Storytime – Revised
Sick/Get Well Storytime Ideas – Revised Winter is the perfect time for stories on getting well after having a cold or flu. For a craft project, make get well cards. Alda, Arlene. Iris Has [continue reading]
Spy School Read-Alikes
Spy School series by Stuart Gibbs Baker, Kim. Pickle: the (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School. Barnett, Mac. Mac B., Kid Spy: Mac Undercover. Beatty, Andrea. Dorko the Magnificent. Buckley, Michael. [continue reading]
Turning Point Review
Chase, Paula. Turning Point. Fiction. Greenwillow, 08/2020. 384pp. $16.99. 978-0-06-296566-0. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-9. Set in the same neighborhood as Paula Chase’s earlier books, So Done (2018) and Dough Boys (2019), this stand-alone novel features two [continue reading]
Christmas Picture Books
Corderoy, Tracey. Mouse’s Night Before Christmas. Illus. by Sarah Massini. Nosy Crow, 10/2020. [32p.] $17.99. 978-1-5362-1440-6. Although this begins with the first four lines of the famous poem, this is actually a new [continue reading]
ACL Meeting to be held Friday, Dec. 11th at 10am
ACL Meeting Friday, December 11, 2020: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, from 10am-Noon over Zoom. We will have our [continue reading]
Board Book Round-up, Part III
New Original Board Books Anon. Hoppy Floppy’s Carrot Hunt. Candlewick, 03/2020. [12p.] $9.99. 978-1-5362-1231-0. Based on a preschool board game, this large egg-shaped board book contains multiple flaps on each spread and a wheel [continue reading]
Voice of Liberty
Carpenter, Angelica Shirley. Voice of Liberty, The. Edwin Fotheringham, Illus. Non-fiction. So Dakota Historical Soc. Pr., 2020. 32pp. $19.95. 978-1-94181-324-9. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 2-6. In this non-fiction picture book, the events are based on a specific [continue reading]