ACL Meeting Friday, January 12, 2018: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, January 12, 2018, from 9am–12:30pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Jacqueline Woodson Named Literature Ambassador
Jacqueline Woodson Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature: Jacqueline Woodson has been named the 6th National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress. She takes over for the previous Ambassador, Gene [continue reading]
Pop-up, Toy, and Flap Books
Pop-up, Toy, and Flap Books Billet, Marion. Noisy Farm: My First Sound Book. Scholastic, 07/2017. [14p.] $9.99. 978-1-338-13220-5. Originally published in France, the charming cartoon illustrations show six different farm animals; press the small metallic [continue reading]
Diversity of Life on Earth Review
Davies, Nicola. Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth. Emily Sutton, Illus. Picture Book. Candlewick, 11/2017. [40]pp. $15.99. 978-0-7636-9483-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. The author/illustrator duo behind Tiny Creatures: The Microbes of the World (2014) have [continue reading]
Baths for Babies Storytime
Baths 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]
First Rule of Punk Review
Pérez, Celia C. First Rule of Punk, The. Fiction. Viking/Penguin/Random, 08/2017. 310 [+14]pp. $16.99. 978-0-425-29040-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. Twelve-year-old Mexican American, zine-creating María Luisa—who goes by Malú—must move from Florida to Chicago for two years [continue reading]
Magic Misfits Read-Alikes
The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris Carnival Life, Orphans, and Outlaws Almond, David. The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas. Beasley, Cassie. Circus Mirandus. Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Clark, Henry. [continue reading]
Evaluating Books about Police from Oakland PL
Evaluating Books about Police: Colleagues at the Oakland Public Library (CA) have developed Evaluating Children’s Books About Police: a toolkit for librarians and other evaluators of children’s literature to help library selectors evaluate books for [continue reading]