Baby Animals Welcome song: “Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed” Mother Goose rhyme: “Baa Baa Black Sheep” Get ready song: “Open, Shut Them” First book: This Is Our Baby, Born Today by Varsha Bajaj. This rhyming story [continue reading]
New Baby Storytime Ideas (2016)
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. At times, a baby-toddler storytime will be followed [continue reading]
Programming Ideas: Pokemon Go
Do-It-Yourself Program Ideas: Pokemon Go Currently, Pokèmon Go is the trending fad and many libraries are finding their locations to be places where gamers can “find” Pokèmon using the game on their cellphones. Librarians [continue reading]
More-igami Review
Kleber, Dori. More-igami. Brian Karas, Illus. Picture Book. Candlewick, 05/2016. [32]pp. $15.99. 978-0-7636-6819-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-3. Joey, who appears to be African American, learns about origami from a classmate’s mom when Mrs. Takimoto demonstrates how [continue reading]
Hosting a Mock Newbery
Would you like to host a Mock Newbery discussion with students at your library? Check out this wonderful article by ACL members Mary Ann Scheuer and Armin Arethna: www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2016/08/hosting-mock-newbery-book-club/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter The article has many helpful details [continue reading]
Reminder: ACL Meeting on Friday, August 12, 2016
ACL Meeting Friday, August 12, 2016: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, August 12, 2016, from 9am–Noon at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Professional Reading: Megan Dowd Lambert’s Reading Picture Books with Children
Professional Reading Lambert, Megan Dowd. Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See. Charlesbridge, 2015. 152p. $21.95. ISBN 978-1-58089-662-7. The Whole Book Approach, which involves [continue reading]
Our Food: A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems Review
Lin, Grace and Ranida T. McKneally. Our Food: A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems. Grace Zong, Illus. Non-fiction. Charlesbridge, 06/2016. $16.95. 978-1-58089-590-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 1-4. In this cheerfully informative book, each spread has a [continue reading]