Board Book Round-up, Part I It’s that time of year again! Time to evaluate new board books for library purchase and use in baby storytimes. Watch for Part II in the May edition of BayNews, [continue reading]
Tempests and Slaughter Read-Alikes
Tempests and Slaughter – Numair Chronicles, Book 1 by Tamora Pierce Albert, Melissa. The Hazel Wood. Bardugo, Leigh. Six of Crows. Black, Holly. The Cruel Prince. Braswell, Liz. As Old as Time. Bunce, Elizabeth [continue reading]
ACL INSTITUTE – REGISTRATION OPEN
Beyond the Binary: Embracing Diverse Gender Identities Koret Auditorium, SF Main Library San Francisco, CA Go to bayviews.org, or register directly at Brown Paper Tickets!
ACL Meeting Friday, March 9, 2018 in Oakland
ACL Meeting Friday, March 9, 2018: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, March 9, 2018, from 9am–12:30pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Jazz Storytime
Jazz 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]
Trains Storytime
Trains The 2018 summer reading/learning program from iReads and the California Library Association is READING TAKES YOU EVERYWHERE! – 2018: hwww.ireadprogram.org/ and calchallenge.org/ . A great way to focus on this for toddler and preschool [continue reading]
Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship Review
Latham, Irene and Charles Waters. Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Poetry. Sean Qualls and Selina Alko, Illus. Carolrhoda, 01/2018. 40pp. $17.99. 978-1-5124-0442-5. OUTSTANDING .GRADES 2-6. This book of poems [continue reading]
Family for Babies Storytimes
Family 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]