Herrera, Juan Felipe. Imagine. Lauren Castillo, Illustrator. Picture Book. Candlewick, 09/2018. [32]pp. $16.99. 978-907636-9052-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-4. The autobiographical poem that Juan Felipe Herrera read aloud at his inauguration as the U.S. Poet Laureate in [continue reading]
Pop-up, Toy, and Flap Books
Duprat, Guillaume. Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World. What on Earth Books, 10/2018. 36p. $21.99. 978-1-9998028-5-1. Using flaps over their eyes, this nonfiction book on how animals see contains quite a bit of [continue reading]
Author/Illustrator Tomi Ungerer Dies
Author/Illustrator Tomi Ungerer Dies: Noted picture book creator Tomi Ungerer died on Feb. 8, 2019 at age 87. His first book was The Mellops Go Flying (1957) about a family of unusual pigs. Other notable [continue reading]
Meet Yasmin! Review
Faruqi, Saadia. Meet Yasmin! Hatem Aly, Illus. Easy Reader. Picture Window, 2019. 89 [+6]pp. PB $5.99. 978-1-68436-022-2. OUTSTANDING GRADES K-3. Yasmin Ahmad is an inquisitive second grader who embraces life’s adventures and figures out how [continue reading]
Aliens Storytime
This month, we celebrate aliens! For a simple craft project, make these alien paper bag puppets: www.dltk-holidays.com/halloween/malienpuppet.htm Agee, Jon. Life on Mars. An astronaut finds an alien on Mars. Duffield, Katy. Aliens Get the Sniffles, [continue reading]
Puppets Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Puppets Puppet shows are often the first live professional entertainment that a young child will experience. Let’s celebrate with the following picture books that focus [continue reading]
Planets Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “A Universe of Stories” – Planets “A Universe of Stories’ is the 2019 theme for the Collaborative Summer Library Program, which is used by many libraries: www.cslpreads.org/. Space, astronomy, and [continue reading]
Actors Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Actors “It’s Showtime at Your Library” is the theme for iRead’s 2019 summer reading program, which is distributed for free to California libraries: www.ireadprogram.org/ and [continue reading]