In the past, postage stamps that celebrated children’s books have been popular, from the 2004 series of stamps based on Dr. Seuss characters, to the 2006 series based on animal characters in children’s books. The U.S. [continue reading]
Two Upcoming Workshops
Children’s Services Fundamentals An Infopeople online course, September 24 to October 21, 2013 Do you want to be more comfortable and confident in providing library services to children and their families? In this course, expert [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Deems, James M. Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America . Photos. Non-fiction. Houghton, 2012. 154p. $18.99. 978-0-547-37024-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-ADULT. Graves from as early as 10,500 years ago to 1881 in both [continue reading]
Do-It-Yourself Program Ideas: “Narnia” Theme
Recently, “Vivian the Librarian,” author of the “As I See It” blog (vivianthelibrarian.blogspot.com/) posted some ideas for a “Narnia” themed library program on the PUBYAC Listserv. I have taken her ideas and added a few [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Konigsberg, Bill. Openly Straight. Fiction. A. Levine, 2013. 336p. $17.99. 978-0-545-50989-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 8-12. High school sophomore Rafe Goldberg is openly gay, out to his parents, his friends, and his soccer team. Although his coming [continue reading]
New Pop-up and Toy Books
Carter, David A. Princess Bugs: A Touch-and-Feel Fairy Tale. Little Simon, 2013. $12.99. ISBN 978-1-4424-5055-4. This small book doesn’t have Carter’s customary pop-ups; all the illustrations are flat. But the book does contain tactile elements, [continue reading]
Outstanding!
Every month, we’ll 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, August 9, 2013
Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! ACL Meeting on Friday, August 9, 2013: We hope you can join us for the ACL Meeting on Friday, August 9, 2013, from 9am-Noon (note early [continue reading]