The 2013 Beatty Award will be given to Barb Rosenstock for The Camping Trip That Changed America (Dial, 2012), illustrated by Mordecai Gerstein. This nonfiction picture book details the camping trip of naturalist John Muir and President [continue reading]
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Review of the Week and Children’s Lit Festival at UC Berkeley
Review of the Week: Blackwood, Sage. Jinx. Fic. HarperCollins, 2013. 360p. $16.99. 978-0-06-212990-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8. Young orphan Jinx is abandoned by his stepfather in the mysterious and dangerous Urwald forest where “you grow up [continue reading]
SRP Film Showing, ACL’s Food Bibliography
Is your library using the “Reading Is So Delicious!” summer reading program theme? If so, be sure to check out the “Eat the Library” Bibliography from ACL’s 2012 Institute: http://www.bayviews.org/institute/2012bibliography.pdf Also, the California Library Association [continue reading]
Eve Bunting to Speak at SFPL, Misenta Wins Lindgren Award
Eve Bunting to Speak at San Francisco Public Library, April 30th, 6pm: Multi-award-winning author Eve Bunting, who has written more than 200 books for preschoolers, school-age children, and young adults, will be the San Francisco [continue reading]
Free Webinar – What’s New in Teen Literature
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Start Time: Pacific – Noon, Mountain – 1:00 PM, Central – 2:00 PM, Eastern – 3:00 PM Speaker: Michael Cart Are you wondering: What the latest things in YA literature are? [continue reading]
ACL Institute Rate for SLIS Students, BayViews.org Updates
Library School Students – take advantage of a special student discount and attend the Association of Children’s Librarians 2013 Institute, for just $25 for the day. The program, to be held on Friday, April 12 [continue reading]
Poet Nancy Wood Dies
Poet Nancy Wood Dies: Award-winning poet, author, and photographer Nancy Wood died March 12, 2013 in Santa Fe, NM. She was 76. Wood devoted her career to exploring the culture and lives of the Native [continue reading]
Storytelling Festival, Free Webinar on New Books, Cartoon Museum Exhibit
Bay Area Storytelling Festival: The annual Bay Area Storytelling Festival is scheduled for May 17-19, 2013, and will be held at the Craneway Pavilion Conference Center in Richmond, CA. “Stories Build Bridges” is this year’s [continue reading]