Review of the Week: Blackwood, Sage. Jinx. Fic. HarperCollins, 2013. 360p. $16.99. 978-0-06-212990-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8. Young orphan Jinx is abandoned by his stepfather in the mysterious and dangerous Urwald forest where “you grow up [continue reading]
SRP Film Showing, ACL’s Food Bibliography
Is your library using the “Reading Is So Delicious!” summer reading program theme? If so, be sure to check out the “Eat the Library” Bibliography from ACL’s 2012 Institute: http://www.bayviews.org/institute/2012bibliography.pdf Also, the California Library Association [continue reading]
Handouts on “We’re History” from the ACL Institute
Those who attended yesterday’s ACL Institute “We’re History” enjoyed learning about how to share history with children – especially family history, and local and California history. If you could not attend, be sure to check out the [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Stone, Tanya Lee. Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers. Non-fic. Candlewick, 2013. 148p. $24.99. 978-0-7665-5117-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-ADULT. The “Triple Nickles,” the first African-American paratroop unit [continue reading]
Reminders for ACL Institute, Infopeople Webinar
Reminder: ACL Institute this Friday, April 12, 2013: http://www.bayviews.org/institute.html – “We’re History: Finding and Sharing the Voices and Stories of Our Past,” 9:00am at the San Leandro History Museum, 320 West Estudillo Ave, San Leandro (one [continue reading]
Eve Bunting to Speak at SFPL, Misenta Wins Lindgren Award
Eve Bunting to Speak at San Francisco Public Library, April 30th, 6pm: Multi-award-winning author Eve Bunting, who has written more than 200 books for preschoolers, school-age children, and young adults, will be the San Francisco [continue reading]
ACL Dorothy Helfeld Fellowships Available
Children’s Librarianship – Is it for you? The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California (ACL) invites students of children’s librarianship and/or children’s literature to apply for one of three annual membership scholarships. Discover a [continue reading]
Free Webinar – What’s New in Teen Literature
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Start Time: Pacific – Noon, Mountain – 1:00 PM, Central – 2:00 PM, Eastern – 3:00 PM Speaker: Michael Cart Are you wondering: What the latest things in YA literature are? [continue reading]