Pop-up, Toy, and Flap Books Billet, Marion. Noisy Farm: My First Sound Book. Scholastic, 07/2017. [14p.] $9.99. 978-1-338-13220-5. Originally published in France, the charming cartoon illustrations show six different farm animals; press the small metallic [continue reading]
Diversity of Life on Earth Review
Davies, Nicola. Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth. Emily Sutton, Illus. Picture Book. Candlewick, 11/2017. [40]pp. $15.99. 978-0-7636-9483-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. The author/illustrator duo behind Tiny Creatures: The Microbes of the World (2014) have [continue reading]
Baths for Babies Storytime
Baths 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]
First Rule of Punk Review
Pérez, Celia C. First Rule of Punk, The. Fiction. Viking/Penguin/Random, 08/2017. 310 [+14]pp. $16.99. 978-0-425-29040-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. Twelve-year-old Mexican American, zine-creating María Luisa—who goes by Malú—must move from Florida to Chicago for two years [continue reading]
Magic Misfits Read-Alikes
The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris Carnival Life, Orphans, and Outlaws Almond, David. The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas. Beasley, Cassie. Circus Mirandus. Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Clark, Henry. [continue reading]
Evaluating Books about Police from Oakland PL
Evaluating Books about Police: Colleagues at the Oakland Public Library (CA) have developed Evaluating Children’s Books About Police: a toolkit for librarians and other evaluators of children’s literature to help library selectors evaluate books for [continue reading]
December BayViews Session this Friday, Dec. 22nd
Hi all- Even though the December meeting has been cancelled, some ACL members are planning to hold a copy editing session this Friday, so that we can still get the December BayViews published and sent [continue reading]
A Different Pond Review
Phi, Bao. Different Pond, A. Thi Bui, Illus. Picture Book. Capstone, 08/2017. [32]pp. $15.95, 978-1-62370-803-0, PLB $23.32, 978-1-4795-9746-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-3. A boy describes a pre-dawn fishing trip with his father, who goes out before [continue reading]