ACL Meeting Friday, Dec. 13, 2013: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, December 13, 2013, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
NY Times Notable Children’s Books, New BayNews Posted
New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2013 Check out the list of Notable Children’s Books of 2013 from the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/notable-childrens-books-of-2013.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 New ACL BayNews Posted The November BayNews (the newsletter for the [continue reading]
Cats Storytime Ideas – (revised)
The themes of “Cats” and “Dogs” are sure to draw in a big crowd at your storytimes. For some arts and crafts ideas, try the Pete the Cat website for downloadable activities or, try some [continue reading]
Dogs Storytime Ideas (2013)
The themes of “Cats” and “Dogs” are sure to draw in a big crowd at your storytimes, if you are using the 2014 Summer Reading Program theme “Paws to Read,” focusing on pet animals. Of [continue reading]
Physics Storytime Ideas
Preschool Storytime Ideas Physics Science-focused story times can be fun at any time of year. For a Physics theme, one activity is to put out Duplo and Lego blocks for free play to help children develop [continue reading]
Counting by 7s Review
Sloan, Holly Goldberg. Counting by 7s. Fiction. Dial, 2013. 380p. $16.99. 978-0-8037-03855-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 7-12. Although seventh grader Willow Chance was adopted by loving parents at a young age in Bakersfield, she’s faced a very [continue reading]
Kadohata wins Nat’l Book Award, Lobel Exhibit at SF Jewish Museum, Arab American Book Award
Kadohata Wins National Book Award Cynthia Kadohata won the National Book Award, Young People’s Literature category, for her novel The Thing About Luck (Atheneum, 2013). A story of a young girl and her brother who [continue reading]
Charlotte Zolotow Dies, Review of the Week
Author Charlotte Zolotow Dies at age 98 Author and editor Charlotte Zolotow died at age 98 on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013 at her home in New York. Zolotow was renowned for her many picture books [continue reading]