Author Richard Peck Dies: Author Richard Peck has died at age 84 at his home in New York City. The Newbery Medal winner for A Year Down Yonder (2016) also received a Newbery Honor, for [continue reading]
Free Webinar on Tues. May 29 on Racial Equity in Schools
EmbraceRace is offering a free webinar coming up on 5/29 , 5:30pm PDT, about racial equity in schools. It’s being led by representatives from a Washington, DC-based organization called Kindred — it sounds like they’re successfully organizing parents [continue reading]
Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary Review
Ramos, NoNieqa. Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary, The. Fiction. Carolrhoda, 02/2018. 336pp. $17.99. 978-1-5124-3976-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 8-ADULT. Macy’s mother always has a different boyfriend, her dad is in prison, her brother has been taken by CPS and [continue reading]
Board Book Round-up, Part II
Board Book Round-up, Part II This month will continue a series of short reviews of new board books, begun in the March 2018 BayNews. For this month’s column, we will focus on board books that [continue reading]
Manic Panic Review
Jha, Richa. Manic Panic, The. Mithila Ananth, Illus. Picture Book. Creston, 05/2018. [32]pp. $16.99. 978-1-939547-43-9. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-3. The unthinkable has happened—the Internet and Wi-Fi have gone down! A young girl and her Nana are [continue reading]
Singing Storytime
Singing 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 [continue reading]
Bikes Storytime
Bikes The 2018 summer reading/learning program from iRead and the California Library Association is READING TAKES YOU EVERYWHERE!: www.ireadprogram.org/ and calchallenge.org/ . A great way to focus on this for toddler and preschool storytime is [continue reading]
The Wild Robot Read-Alikes
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown Brown, Peter. The Wild Robot Escapes. DiTerlizzi, Tony. The Search for WondLa. Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Under Their Skin. Hoffman, Alice. Nightbird. Hughes, Ted. The Iron Giant. Jarrell, Randall. The [continue reading]