New ACL Mini-Grants Available to Our Members – Apply by Feb. 20, 2021 – Deadline extended! Grants ($500 maximum) are available for library programs that are not part of the regular budget, including (but not [continue reading]
OUTSTANDING! – January 2021
Each month we post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ at our previous month’s meeting and nominated for our year-end Distinguished List. Members can see full reviews of these books and many [continue reading]
If You Come to Earth
Blackall, Sophie. If You Come to Earth. Sophie Blackall, Illus. Picture Book. Chronicle, 09/2020. 76pp. $18.99. 978-1-4521-3779-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. Red-hatted Quinn lies on his bed composing, on an endless scroll of paper, a letter [continue reading]
ACL Meeting to be held Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, 10am-Noon.
ACL Meeting Friday, February 12, 2021: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, from 10am-Noon over Zoom. We will have our [continue reading]
Pop-up and Flap Books
Pop-up and Flap Books Anon. Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Illus. by Yu-hsuan Huang. “Sing Along with Me!” series.Nosy Crow, 09/2020. [8p.] $8.99. 978-1-5362-1484-0. Anon. The Wheels on the Bus. Illus. by Yu-hsuan Huang. “Sing [continue reading]
Land of the Cranes Review
Salazar, Aida. Land of the Cranes The. Fiction. Scholastic, 09/2020. 256pp. $17.99. 978-1-338-34380-9. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-7. Oakland writer Aida Salazar uses verse to tell the story of 9-year-old Latinx Betita Quintero and her pregnant mother [continue reading]
“Flora and Ulysses” film to Debut Feb. 19th
“Flora and Ulysses” Film Will Debut on Disney+ on Feb. 19th: Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery-winning novel Flora and Ulysses has been made into a feature film debuting Feb. 19 on the streaming service Disney+. The live-action [continue reading]
How We Got to the Moon Review
Rocco, John. How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Adventure. John Rocco, Illus. Non-fiction. Crown, 10/2020. 256pp. $29.99, 978-0-525-64741-6, PLB $32.99, 978-0-525-64742-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-10. [continue reading]