2024 Performers’ Showcase Accepting Applications: Mark your calendars for ACL’s annual Performers’ Showcase! As of now, the event is scheduled for February 3, 2024, location to be determined. We will have more details and registration [continue reading]
Resources on Challenges to Comics and Graphic Novels
Resources on Challenges to Comics and Graphic Novels: ACL member Carla Riemer recently gave some tips on dealing with book challenges to comics and graphic novels. She is a member of the American Library Association’s [continue reading]
Story Time From Space
Story Time From Space: Author Deborah Lee Rose let ACL know that her recent book Astronauts Zoom! (Persnickety Press, 2021) was part of Story Time From Space. This is a project from the Global Space [continue reading]
Festergrimm Review
Taylor, Thomas. Festergrimm. Tom Booth, Illus. Legends of Eerie-On-Sea Series; bk. 4. Candlewick/Walker, 04/2023. 324pp. Fiction. Trade $19.99. 978-1-5362-2742-0. Paper $10.99. 978-1-5362-3245-5. GRADES 4 – 8. ADDITIONAL. Herbie and Violet return in their fourth adventure [continue reading]
Mabuhay! Review
Sterling, Zachary. Mabuhay!: A Graphic Novel. Zachary Sterling, Illus. Scholastic/Graphix, 10/2023. 228 [+12]pp. Graphic. Trade $24.99. 978-1-3387-3864-3. Paper $12.99. 978-1-338-73860-5. GRADES 3 – 7. OUTSTANDING. Filipino American kids JJ and Althea are frustrated with people [continue reading]
Control Freaks Review
Thomas, J. E. Control Freaks. Levine Querido, 06/2023. 320pp. Fiction. Trade $18.99 978-1-64614-305-4. GRADES 5 – 8. HIGH ADDITIONAL. Frederick Douglass Zezzmer (a Black middle schooler) arrives at his Colorado college prep school ready for [continue reading]
Patterns Everywhere Review
Perron, Lisa Varchol. Patterns Everywhere. Lerner/Millbrook, 04/2023. [30]pp. Non-Fiction. PLB $29.32 978-1-7284-6042-0. GRADES Kindergarten – 3. ADDITIONAL. Patterns can be seen everywhere you look, which Perron aptly demonstrates via colorful photographs, limited rhyming text, and [continue reading]
Lucas’s Tricky Day Review
LaRocca, Rajani. Lucas’s Tricky Day: Looking on the Bright Side. India Valle, Illus. Chicken Soup for the Soul KIDS Series. Charlesbridge, 10/2022. [30]pp. Picture Book. Trade $12.99 978-1-62354-283-2. GRADES Kindergarten – 2. ADDITIONAL. What happens [continue reading]