San Leandro Teacher Wins Pura Belpre Award: Carolina Ixta was awarded the 2025 Pura Belpre Award in the category of Belpre Young Adult Author for her first novel, Shut Up, This Is Serious, published by [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Berkeley
ACL Meeting Friday, February 14, 2025: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, February 14, 2025, from 9:00am-Noon, at the Berkeley Main Library, 2090 [continue reading]
Love and Literacy Event Set for Sat., March 15, 2025 in Fremont
A wonderful outreach opportunity is happening in Fremont on Saturday, March 15, Love and Literacy. Love and Literacy is a family event organized by schools and organizations serving the Deaf and hard of hearing community. [continue reading]
Mac Barnett Named Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Mac Barnett Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature: The Library of Congress announced the appointment of children’s author Mac Barnett to be the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2025-2026. He is [continue reading]
Seasons Storytime – Revised
Seasons – Revised Follow up your storytime on the months of the year (Months of the Year – Revised) with one focused on the seasons. For an art project, make one of these suggestions: [continue reading]
Nocturnal Animals – Revised
Nocturnal Animals – Revised Winter is a great time to celebrate nocturnal animals because it gets dark so early in the evening. For an art project, make these fun owl puppets: Paper Bag Owl [continue reading]
Interactive Books for Storytime
Revised January 2026 Pop-up, Flap, Tactile, and Interactive Books Alper, Sascha. The Littlest Drop. Amato, Max. Perfect. Anstee, Ashlyn. Tickle Tickle, Little Tum. Barnett, Mac. Twenty Questions. Bonenfant, Pascale. Play with Jay! Fun and Games [continue reading]
ALA 2025 YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS ANNOUNCED
ALA 2025 YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS ANNOUNCED Erin Entrada Kelly’s The First State of Being (Greenwillow/HarperCollins) was named the 2025 Newbery Medal winner, announced on January 27th by the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC), [continue reading]