The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner Tween novels featuring drugs and addiction Childress, Alice. A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich. Diaz, Alexandra. The Only Road. Elliott, Zetta. Bird. Fletcher, Ralph. Uncle Daddy. [continue reading]
New Voices Award
LEE & LOW BOOKS is proud to announce that Maham Khwaja of West Hollywood, California is the winner of the company’s eighteenth annual New Voices Award, given for a picture book manuscript by an unpublished [continue reading]
Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announced
2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners Announced Winners of the annual Sydney Taylor Book Award were announced by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Named in memory of Sydney Taylor, author of the classic All-of-a-Kind [continue reading]
Author Ursula Le Guin Dies
Author Ursula Le Guin Dies at Age 88: Fantasy author Ursula Le Guin died on January 22 at age 88 at her home in Portland, OR. The Berkeley native created the “Earthsea” series of science [continue reading]
When the Snow Falls Review
Sweeney, Linda Booth. When the Snow Falls, Jana Christy, Illus. Picture Book. Putnam/Penguin, 10/2017. [32]pp. $16.99. 978-0-399-54720-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. On a winter morning, a brother and sister awake to a window painted with frost [continue reading]
ACL Institute Focuses on Gender Diversity
SAVE THE DATE! ** Friday, April 13, 2018 ** San Francisco Public Main Library The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California (ACL) will host their annual Institute at the San Francisco Main Public Library [continue reading]
Author Julius Lester Dies
Author Julius Lester Dies at Age 78 Award-winning author Julius Lester died on Jan. 18, 2018 at age 78. He taught Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts; the African-American activist converted [continue reading]
Noise/Sounds Storytime (revised)
Noise/Sounds (revised) LIBRARIES ROCK! is the 2018 summer theme for the Cooperative Summer Library Program: www.cslpreads.org/. For libraries using this music-themed summer reading/learning program, BayNews will offer sound and music storytime outlines between now and [continue reading]