Turn the Page! A children’s book festival at Children’s Fairyland: Presented by Kaiser Permanente with support from Chronicle Books on Saturday, April 23, 10 am – 4pm. At Children’s Fairyland, 699 Bellevue Ave., Oakland, CA. [continue reading]
Upcoming Book Fests, Storytelling Festival
Children’s Book Festival to be held in Palo Alto: The Palo Alto Public Library is the site of the free Children’s Book Festival, to be held on Saturday, April 16, 2016, 1-4pm, 250 Hamilton Ave., [continue reading]
Ukelele Workshop, Lambda Finalists, Children’s Choice Voting Open
Learn Ukelele: Have you been wanting to add an instrument to your storytime? Here’s your chance! This session on learning the ukulele will be led by Mary Dubbs, a totally self/internet-taught ukulele player of 18-months, [continue reading]
ACL Meeting on Friday, March 11th, Peter Rabbit Coin
ACL Meeting Friday, March 11, 2016: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, March 11, 2016, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Outstanding! – February 2016
Every 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]
Louise Rennison Dies, Alan Bern’s New “Greater Distance” book of poetry
Author Louise Rennison Dies: Louise Rennison, author of the young adult series that began with Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging has died. The British author was 63 years old, and had a background in [continue reading]
Dance! Dance! Underpants!
Shea, Bob. Dance! Dance! Underpants! Bob Shea, Illus. Easy Reader. Ballet Cat Series; Bk. 2. Disney/Hyperion, 02/2016. [56]pp. $9.99. 978-1-4847-1379-2. OUTSTANDING GRADES PRE-2. Butter Bear is paralyzed by the fear that the audience will laugh [continue reading]
The Inn Between
Cohen, Marina. Inn Between, The. Fiction. Roaring Brook, 03/2016. 208pp. $16.99. 978-1-62672-202-6. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES 4-7. If hell can be disguised as a dance party, purgatory can be a luxury hotel. Kara and Quinn, two [continue reading]