Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner. What Makes a Blizzard? Maddie Frost, Illus. Non-fiction. Let’s Read and Find Out Science Series. HarperCollins, 01/2018. 35pp. $17.99. 978-0-06-248473-4. PB $6.99. 978-0-06-248472-7. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES 1-3. This non-fiction book for early [continue reading]
Drums Storytime
Drums LIBRARIES ROCK! is the 2018 summer theme for the Cooperative Summer Library Program: www.cslpreads.org/. For libraries using the music-themed summer reading/learning program, BayNews will offer sound and music storytime outlines between now and June. [continue reading]
Cars Storytime
Cars The 2018 summer reading/learning program from iRead and the California Library Association is READING TAKES YOU EVERYWHERE!: hwww.ireadprogram.org/ and calchallenge.org/ . A great way to focus on this for toddler and preschool storytime is [continue reading]
OUTSTANDING! – March 2018
Each month we post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ and nominated for our Distinguished List at our previous month’s meeting. Members can see full reviews of these books and many more [continue reading]
Eggs for Babies Storytime
Eggs for Babies Storytimes for babies and toddlers offer an opportunity to model great read-aloud techniques for parents, and gives them the confidence to read to their children every day. A baby-toddler storytime can be [continue reading]
Seeing Into Tomorrow: Haiku Review
Seeing Into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright. Nina Crews, Illus. Poetry. Millbrook, 02/2018. 32pp. PLB $19.97. 978-1-5124-1865-1. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES K-4 . Richard Wright wrote more than 4,000 haiku, most in the last year when he [continue reading]
Woodson Named Astrid Lindgren Laureate
Jacqueline Woodson Receives 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Author Jacqueline Woodson (the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in the United States) was named the Astrid Lindgren Memorial laureate for 2018 on March 27. [continue reading]
Author Russell Freedman Dies
Newbery Medal Winner Russell Freedman Dies: Russell Freedman, author of many biographies and nonfiction books for tweens and winner of the 1988 Newbery Medal for Abraham Lincoln: a Photobiography, died at age 88 on March [continue reading]