Young Adult Library Advocate Michael Cart Dies: Michael Cart, author of Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, Fourth Edition, ALA, 2022, has died. His long career as a librarian includes 15 years as Director [continue reading]
ACL Zoom Meeting Friday, March 14, 2025
ACL Meeting Friday, March 14, 2025: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, March 14, 2025, from 9:00am-Noon, over Zoom. The Zoom link will [continue reading]
ACL Institute Tickets Available
Tickets for ACL’s Institute, We Got the Beat: Music and Movement in Storytime, are now available! You can purchase tickets here or apply for a scholarship here. Tickets at $55 for ACL members, $65 for non-members, and $25 for [continue reading]
Golden Poppy Awards Announced
Golden Poppy Awards Announced: The California Independent Booksellers announced the winners for the 2024 Golden Poppy Awards. Recipients for books for young people are: Picture book: The Man Who Didn’t Like Animals by Deborah Underwood, [continue reading]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read-Alikes – Revised
Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Revised by Jeff Kinney Angleberger, Tom. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. Brallier, Max. Last Kids on Earth. Eliopoulos, Christopher. Cosmic Commandos. Freeman, Martha. Goldilocks, Go Home! Grabenstein, [continue reading]
Dog Man Read-Alikes – Revised
Dog Man – Revised by Dav Pilkey Angleberger, Tom. Two-Headed Chicken. Banks, Steven. Middle School Bites. Barnett, Mac. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza. Benton, Jim. Clyde. Brown, Jeffrey. Lucy & Andy Neanderthal. [continue reading]
Evolution: A Celebration of Beautiful Animals Review
Spring, William. Evolution: A Celebration of Beautiful Animals. William Spring, Illus. Candlewick/Big Picture, 10/2024. 110pp. Nonfiction. Trade $22.99. 978-1-5362-3835-8. GRADES Kindergarten–3. HIGH ADDITIONAL. Pencil and watercolor illustrations highlight fifty interesting and unique animals – most of whom are endangered or threatened. Each double-page spread includes a few [continue reading]
My Daddy Is a Cowboy Review
Seales, Stephanie. My Daddy Is a Cowboy. C. G. Esperanza, Illus. Abrams, 06/2024. [48]pp. Picture Book. Trade $18.99. 978-1-4197-6081-5. GRADES Kindergarten–4. OUTSTANDING. A young girl is woken up before dawn by her father so that they can share a pre-sunrise horseback ride through the streets of [continue reading]