Author R.A. Montgomery of “Choose Your Own Adventure” Books Dies: R.A. Montgomery, publisher and sometime author of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of novels for grades 3-5 has died at age 78, at his [continue reading]
Review of the Week: “Stubby”
Bausum, Ann. Stubby: The True Story of World War I’s Bravest Dog. Non-fiction. National Geographic, 2014. 72p. $17.99. 978-1-4263-1486-5. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-8. Initially, he hung around the U.S. Army training camp scrounging for food, but [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Reminder, Publishers’ Weekly Best Books 2014
ACL Meeting Friday, November 14, 2014: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, November 14, 2014, from 9am-1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Outstanding!
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]
Flora and Ulysses Read-Alikes
Read-alikes for Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo Baker, Kim. Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School. Ben starts a club to pull pranks on other sixth graders, while trying to [continue reading]
Choose Your Own Adventure Read-Alikes
Choose Your Own Adventure series by various authors. Borgenicht, David. Worst Case Scenario: Ultimate Adventure series. Chronicle Books. 2011-2012. Gutman, Dan. My Weird School series. HarperCollins, 2004-2015. Korman, Gordon. Dive trilogy. Scholastic, 2003. Korman, Gordon. [continue reading]
Backwards Day Storytime Ideas (2014)
Celebrate the made-up holiday of Backwards Day with funny books that encourage children’s imagination. You can also emphasize the concept of opposites using this theme. Sing Jim Gill’s “Backwards Day,” or do the “Hokey Pokey” [continue reading]
Signs and Signage Storytime Ideas
One way to help preschoolers become emergent readers is to encourage them to observe signs – in grocery stores, while riding in a car, wherever they see them in their environment. There are several fun [continue reading]