National Book Awards Longlist Announced: The finalists for the National Book Awards have been announced; check out the books in the Young People’s Literature category: www.nationalbook.org/index.html . Titles include Booked by Kwame Alexander, Raymie Nightingale [continue reading]
Serafina and the Black Cloak Read-Alikes
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty Anderson, R.J. A Pocket Full of Murder. Baptiste, Tracey. The Jumbies. Beatty, Robert. Serafina and the Twisted Staff. Chainani, Soman. The School for Good and Evil. Edge, [continue reading]
Halloween for Babies Storytime Ideas
Halloween for Babies Welcome song: “Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed” Get ready song: “Open, Shut Them” First book: This Is the House That Monster Built by Steve Metzger. In this cumulative tale, monsters build a house [continue reading]
Autumn for Babies Storytime Ideas
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. At times, a baby-toddler storytime will be followed [continue reading]
Mountain Chef Review
Pimentel, Annette Bay. Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service. Rich Lo, Illus. Biography. Charlesbridge, 08/2016. 40pp. PLB $16.95. 978-1-58089-711-2. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES [continue reading]
Francisco Jimenez to Receive Steinbeck Award
Francisco Jimenez to Receive Steinbeck Award “I thank Francisco Jimenez for honoring all brave children who grow up poor in America.” -Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Educator, author, and advocate for social [continue reading]
Christian Robinson on PBS News, NPR Highlights Pura Belpre
Christian Robinson on PBS News Hour: www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/illustrator-explains-art-making-pictures-speak-children/ – Check out this clip from PBS News Hour entitled “An Illustrator Explains the Art of Making Pictures Speak to Children,” featuring award-winning picture book artist Christian Robinson. [continue reading]
Author/Illustrator Anna Dewdney Dies at age 50
Author/Illustrator Anna Dewdney Dies at Age 50: Anna Dewdney, best known for the picture book series that began with Llama Llama Red Pajama (Viking, 2005), died at age 50 from brain cancer. She began her [continue reading]