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]
ACL Meeting Friday, March 9, 2018 in Oakland
ACL Meeting Friday, March 9, 2018: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, March 9, 2018, from 9am–12:30pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Jazz Storytime
Jazz 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]
Trains Storytime
Trains The 2018 summer reading/learning program from iReads and the California Library Association is READING TAKES YOU EVERYWHERE! – 2018: hwww.ireadprogram.org/ and calchallenge.org/ . A great way to focus on this for toddler and preschool [continue reading]
Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship Review
Latham, Irene and Charles Waters. Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Poetry. Sean Qualls and Selina Alko, Illus. Carolrhoda, 01/2018. 40pp. $17.99. 978-1-5124-0442-5. OUTSTANDING .GRADES 2-6. This book of poems [continue reading]
Family for Babies Storytimes
Family 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]
DIY: “Reading Takes You Everywhere” Around the World Crafts and Game Program
DO IT YOURSELF PROGRAMMING Last month, we offered an outline for a fun Do-It-Yourself craft and game program on Music for those doing the “Libraries Rock” summer reading program. This month, we offer ideas for [continue reading]
Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid Review
Meloy, Colin. Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid, The. Carson Ellis. Illus. Fiction. Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins, 10/2017. 424pp. $17.99. 978-0-06-234245-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-7. In 1961Marseille, France, Charlie Fisher, the neglected 12-year-old son of an American [continue reading]