Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan Dies: Patricia MacLachlan, who received the Newbery Medal for Sarah, Plain and Tall, died on March 31, 2022 at the age of 84. She wrote more than sity children’s books over [continue reading]
Bright Brown Baby Review
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Bright Brown Baby: A Treasury. Brian Pinkney, Illus. Scholastic⁄ Orchard, 01/2022. [64]pp. $18.99. 978-0-545-87229-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES TOD-PRE. Five poems celebrating African American babies make up this treasury divided into chapters. Along with [continue reading]
Outstanding! April 2022
Outstanding Books of the Month – April 2022 Each month we post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ at our previous meeting and nominated for our year-end Distinguished List. Members can see [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday, April 8, 2022
ACL Meeting Friday, April 8, 2022: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, March 11, 2022, from 10:00am-Noon over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84205853956?pwd=V3FQOG5sOEpPaVhxS0hOQzA4TlhEQT09 This month [continue reading]
Whales Storytime
Whales Storytime Recently, we started to offer some storytime themes to go along with “Oceans of Possibilities,” the theme of the 2022 Collaborative Summer Library Program: https://www.cslpreads.org/ . For an art project, make these [continue reading]
Playgrounds Storytime
Playgrounds Storytime Recently, we started to offer some storytime themes to go along with “Read Beyond the Beaten Path,” the theme of the 2022 iRead summer reading program: https://www.ireadprogram.org/ focusing on a summer camp at [continue reading]
I Must Betray You Review
Sepetys, Ruta. I Must Betray You. Fiction. Philomel, 02/2022. 319pp. $18.99. 978-1-9848-3603-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 7-12. Things are beyond hard in Romania in 1989. Stuck behind the Iron Curtain, 17-year-old Cristian Florescu and his family must [continue reading]
Upcoming Professional Development Sessions on Sex Education
Reminder – Professional Development Sessions on Sex Education: ACL is planning two free professional development sessions as part of our Zoom meetings, in place of our usual Spring Institute. These are planned for our June [continue reading]