Author Betsy Byars Dies: Newbery Medal winner Betsy Byars died on Feb. 26 at age 91 in South Carolina. Her first book, Clementine, was published in 1962 by Houghton Mifflin. She was awarded the Newbery [continue reading]
28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
Safier, David. 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Fiction. Translated from the German by Helen MacCormac. Feiwel, 03/2020. 416pp. $18.99. 978-1-250-23714-9. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 9-12. As the novel opens, 16-year-old Mira is [continue reading]
Mexico Storytime – Revised
Mexico – revised Many of our communities have residents whose families originally came from Mexico. For a craft project, make these bean bracelets: www.dltk-kids.com/world/mexico/mexican_bean_bracelets.htm or tissue flowers: www.dltk-kids.com/world/mexico/tissueflowers.htm . Aardema, Verna. Borreguita and the Coyote. [continue reading]
India Storytime
India Over the next several months, we will be updating our Storytime themes on various countries around the world. The 2020 CSLP Reads summer reading theme “Imagine Your Story” will focus on fairy tales and [continue reading]
Infinite Hope Review
Bryan, Ashley. Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace. Biography. Atheneum/C. Dlouhy, 10/2019. 110pp. $21.99. 978-1-5344-044090-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-12. For most of his life, multiple award-winning writer/illustrator Bryan avoided revisiting [continue reading]
Spring Board Book Round-up, Part I
Original Board Books Aroeste, Sarah. Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom. Illus. by Ayesha L. Rubio. Kar-Ben, 2020. [12p.] $6.99. 978-1-5414-4246-4. A Sephardic Jewish family celebrates Shabbat, introducing a Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) word on each page. Because [continue reading]
DIY: Edible Science
Edible Science is a fun theme for a do it yourself program any time of the year, and works well to promote STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) as well as Makerspace concepts. [continue reading]
Cog Review
Van Eekhout, Greg. Cog. Beatrice Blue, Illus. Fiction. HarperCollins, 10/2019. 196pp. $16.99. 978-0-06-268607-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-7. Cog looks like a 12-year-old boy, but he is actually a seven-month-old robot designed to learn. He learns about [continue reading]