Message from our friends at ALSC: The ALSC Board of Directors and ALSC President Andrew Medlar will be hosting an ALSC Community Forum live chat on the freshly updated ALSC Competencies for Librarians Serving Children [continue reading]
Outstanding! – October 2015
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]
Sun and Moon Storytime Ideas (2015)
Most preschoolers seem to be interested in basic astronomy, and want to learn about planets and stars. Bay area kids may have visited the Chabot Science Center, so having a storytime on the sun and moon [continue reading]
Rain and Snow Storytime Ideas (2015)
For many of our storytime attendees, rain and snow are relatively unfamiliar sights. A storytime focusing on these two weather events is a great way to incorporate some simple science into our storytimes. For a [continue reading]
Mars Evacuees
McDougall, Sophia. Mars Evacuees. Fiction. Mars Evacuees Series, Bk. 1. HarperCollins, 02/2015. 404p. $16.99. 978-0-06-229399-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8 Narrated with entertainingly British self-deprecation and sangfroid by twelve-year-old Alice Dare, this intelligent and thought-provoking middle grade [continue reading]
Sleepless Knight
Sturm, James, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost. Sleepless Knight. Graphic novel. First Second, 04/2015. [29]p. $14.99. 978-1-59643-651-0. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-3. A young knight with a trusty horse sets off on a camping trip, only to [continue reading]
Bay Area Through Time
Cunningham, Laura. Bay Area Through Time, The. Laura Cunningham, Illus. Non-fiction. Heyday, 07/2015. [26]p. $16.00. 978-1-59714-301-4. ADDITIONAL. GRADES 2-5. For those interested in the paleontological past of the area they live in, this title is [continue reading]
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation
Sandler, Martin W. Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad. Non-fiction. Candlewick, 09/2015. 212p. $22.99. 978-0-7636-6527-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 7-12. An expansive, dramatic photo-filled book design [continue reading]