Drums LIBRARIES ROCK! is the 2018 summer theme for the Cooperative Summer Library Program: www.cslpreads.org/. For libraries using the music-themed summer reading/learning program, BayNews will offer sound and music storytime outlines between now and June. [continue reading]
Cars Storytime
Cars The 2018 summer reading/learning program from iRead and the California Library Association is READING TAKES YOU EVERYWHERE!: hwww.ireadprogram.org/ and calchallenge.org/ . A great way to focus on this for toddler and preschool storytime is [continue reading]
Eggs for Babies Storytime
Eggs for Babies Storytimes for babies and toddlers offer an opportunity to model great read-aloud techniques for parents, and gives them the confidence to read to their children every day. A baby-toddler storytime can be [continue reading]
Seeing Into Tomorrow: Haiku Review
Seeing Into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright. Nina Crews, Illus. Poetry. Millbrook, 02/2018. 32pp. PLB $19.97. 978-1-5124-1865-1. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES K-4 . Richard Wright wrote more than 4,000 haiku, most in the last year when he [continue reading]
Woodson Named Astrid Lindgren Laureate
Jacqueline Woodson Receives 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Author Jacqueline Woodson (the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in the United States) was named the Astrid Lindgren Memorial laureate for 2018 on March 27. [continue reading]
Author Russell Freedman Dies
Newbery Medal Winner Russell Freedman Dies: Russell Freedman, author of many biographies and nonfiction books for tweens and winner of the 1988 Newbery Medal for Abraham Lincoln: a Photobiography, died at age 88 on March [continue reading]
Hidden Figures Review
Shetterly, Margot Lee and Winifred Conkling. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race. Laura Freeman, Illus. Non-fiction. HarperCollins, 01/2018. [40]pp. $17.99. 978-0-06-274246-9. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 1-5. Hidden Figures is the picture [continue reading]
Blue Rider Review
Valério, Geraldo. Blue Rider. Geraldo Valério, Illus. Picture Book. Groundwood, 03/2018. [44]pp. $19.95. 978-1-55498-981-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. Blue Rider is a paean to a book; in fact, it could be a paean to itself since [continue reading]