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]
ACL Institute Rate for SLIS Students, BayViews.org Updates
Library School Students – take advantage of a special student discount and attend the Association of Children’s Librarians 2013 Institute, for just $25 for the day. The program, to be held on Friday, April 12 [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Frazee, Marla. Boot and Shoe. Marla Frazee. Illus. Pic. Bk. Beach Lane, 2012. [32]p. $16.99. 978-1-4424-2247-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. Brother dogs Boot and Shoe live together, but one prefers the front porch, the other the [continue reading]
Hattie Big Sky Read-Alikes
Homesteading Fiction: Read-Alikes for the “Hattie” series by Kirby Larson. Armstrong, Jennifer. Black-Eyed Susan. Avi. The Barn. Babb, Sanora. An Owl on Every Post. Conrad, Pam. Prairie Song. Dallas, Sandra. The Quilt Walk. DeFelice, Cynthia. [continue reading]