2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Puppets Puppet shows are often the first live professional entertainment that a young child will experience. Let’s celebrate with the following picture books that focus [continue reading]
Planets Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “A Universe of Stories” – Planets “A Universe of Stories’ is the 2019 theme for the Collaborative Summer Library Program, which is used by many libraries: www.cslpreads.org/. Space, astronomy, and [continue reading]
Actors Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Actors “It’s Showtime at Your Library” is the theme for iRead’s 2019 summer reading program, which is distributed for free to California libraries: www.ireadprogram.org/ and [continue reading]
Free Webinar “What’s New in Children’s Lit” Set for Wed. Feb. 27th
Free Webinar: Wednesday, February 27 @noon Pacific – What’s New in Children’s Literature – 2019: https://internal.infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?id=819&reset=1 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Join us for our annual review of what’s new in children’s [continue reading]
Second Call: ACL Mini-grants Available – Applications due Feb. 15, 2019
New ACL Mini-Grants Available to Members Grants ($500 maximum) are available for library programs that are not part of the regular budget, including (but not limited to) author or illustrator guest speakers, professional performances for [continue reading]
Thank You, Omu! Review
Mora, Oge. Thank You, Omu! Oge Mora, Illus. Picture Book. Little, 10/2018. 34pp. $18.99. 978-0-316-643124-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-3. The titular Omu in Thank you, Omu! shares her delicious cooking with friends, neighbors, and other community [continue reading]
Mortal Engines Read-Alikes
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve Akers, Tim. Heart of Veridon. Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker. Barrett, Neal. The Prophecy Machine. Bear, Elizabeth. New Amsterdam. Blaylock, James P. Homunculus. Bracken, Alexandra. The Darkest Minds. DiFilippo, Paul. The [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 at Oakland Main Library
ACL Meeting Friday, February 8, 2019: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, February 8, 2019, from 9am–12:30pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]