Oakland PL Offers Gift Suggestions: For the first time, Oakland Public Library is offering suggestions for parents and others looking for holiday gift book titles for children. Check out their blog if you have patrons [continue reading]
Author of BOOK SCAVENGER to Speak at San Francisco’s North Beach Branch Nov. 21
North Beach Library 850 Columbus Avenue (at Lombard) San Francisco, CA 94133 415-355-5626
ALSC Webinar on Picture Book Challenges, Publishers’ Weekly Names Best of 2015
ALSC Webinar on Picture Books and Challenges – Dealing with Controversial Topics in Children’s Collections: www.ala.org/advocacy/picturebookswebinar . This webinar on censorship is scheduled for Wed. Nov. 18, 2015 at 11am Pacific time. Go to the [continue reading]
Attend the ACL meeting Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 at Oakland Main Library
ACL Meeting Friday, November 13, 2015: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, November 13, 2015, from 9am-12:30pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Join the ALSC Community Forum on Monday, Nov. 9th at 11am (Pacific)
Message from our friends at ALSC: The ALSC Board of Directors and ALSC President Andrew Medlar will be hosting an ALSC Community Forum live chat on the freshly updated ALSC Competencies for Librarians Serving Children [continue reading]
Sun and Moon Storytime Ideas (2015)
Most preschoolers seem to be interested in basic astronomy, and want to learn about planets and stars. Bay area kids may have visited the Chabot Science Center, so having a storytime on the sun and moon [continue reading]
Rain and Snow Storytime Ideas (2015)
For many of our storytime attendees, rain and snow are relatively unfamiliar sights. A storytime focusing on these two weather events is a great way to incorporate some simple science into our storytimes. For a [continue reading]
Mars Evacuees
McDougall, Sophia. Mars Evacuees. Fiction. Mars Evacuees Series, Bk. 1. HarperCollins, 02/2015. 404p. $16.99. 978-0-06-229399-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8 Narrated with entertainingly British self-deprecation and sangfroid by twelve-year-old Alice Dare, this intelligent and thought-provoking middle grade [continue reading]