ACL Meeting Friday, March 8, 2024: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, March 8, 2024, from 10:am-Noon, over Zoom. The Zoom link will [continue reading]
2024 Ezra Jack Keats Awards Announced
Ezra Jack Keats Awards Announced: The 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Awards were announced on Feb. 21, 2024 to honor “early career authors and illustrators for excellence in portraying the multicultural nature of the world.” The [continue reading]
Effie Lee Morris Program Set for April 6, 2024
Effie Lee Morris Meet-the-Author Program and BIPOC KidLit Fest: 2pm Saturday, April 6, 2024 San Francisco Public Library Featured Speaker: Christina Soontornvat Author: Christina Soontornvat, 28th Annual Effie Lee Morris Author | San Francisco Public [continue reading]
Grocers Storytime – Revised
Preschool Storytime Ideas Grocers Storytime – Revised Young children often visit the grocery store with a caregiver on a regular basis. There are many fun books about this community helper! For a craft [continue reading]
Remember Us Review
Woodson, Jacqueline. Remember Us. Penguin Random House/Nancy Paulsen, 10/2023. 192pp. Fiction. Trade $18.99. 978-0-3995-4546-7. GRADES 5–9. OUTSTANDING. This book drops us into 1970s Brooklyn, where the majority-Black Bushwick neighborhood is dubbed “The Matchbox” because of [continue reading]
Brooms Review
Walls, Jasmine. Brooms. Teo DuVall, Illus. Addl. Creators Bex Glendining, Ariana Maher, Mariya Juni, Zack Sharpe, Elise Schuenke. Levine Querido, 10/2023. 230pp. Graphic. Trade $24.99. 978-1-64614-267-5. Paper $18.99. 978-1-64614-268-2. GRADES 7–12. HIGH ADDITIONAL. In this [continue reading]
Squished Review
Wagner Lloyd, Megan. Squished. Michelle Mee Nutter, Illustrator. Graphix, 03/2023. 246pp. Graphic. Trade $24.99. 978-1-338-56894-3. Paper $12.99. 978-1-338-56893-6. GRADES 3–7. HIGH ADDITIONAL. In this graphic novel for fans of Raina Telgemeier (Smile, 2010), Avery Lee [continue reading]
Mi Papá es un Agrícola / My Father, the Farmworker Review
Varela, J. Romon Perez. Mi Papá es un Agrícola / My Father, the Farmworker. José Ramírez, Illus. Lil’ Libros, 04/2023. [32]pp. Picture Book. Trade $19.99. 978-1-948066-75-4. GRADES Preschool–3. OUTSTANDING. A story of love shared by [continue reading]