Bay Area Storytelling Festival Set for May 3-4, 2024: The 33rd Bay Area Storytelling Festival is scheduled for May 3-4, 2024, with a virtual option available. It will be held at the Sonoma Academy in [continue reading]
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2024 Ezra Jack Keats Awards Announced
Ezra Jack Keats Awards Announced: The 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Awards were announced on Feb. 21, 2024 to honor “early career authors and illustrators for excellence in portraying the multicultural nature of the world.” The [continue reading]
Effie Lee Morris Program Set for April 6, 2024
Effie Lee Morris Meet-the-Author Program and BIPOC KidLit Fest: 2pm Saturday, April 6, 2024 San Francisco Public Library Featured Speaker: Christina Soontornvat Author: Christina Soontornvat, 28th Annual Effie Lee Morris Author | San Francisco Public [continue reading]
Mychal Threets Visits ACL
Librarian and Instagram star Mychal Threets visited our ACL meeting on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024 to talk about his experiences spreading Library Joy. Thanks so much to Angela Moffett for arranging for Mychal’s visit, and to Mychal [continue reading]
Author Interview: Lea Lyon
Lea Lyon is a Bay Area author with a new book out – The Double V Campaign: African Americans Fighting for Freedom at Home and Abroad. Rowman & Littlefield, Feb. 20, 2024, 176p., $28, ISBN [continue reading]
Hicklebee’s Children’s Bookstore Has a New Owner
Hicklebee’s Children’s Bookstore Has A New Owner: San Jose’s popular bookstore Hicklebee’s has a new owner: Laura Gahrahmat. Founded in 1979 by Valerie Lewis and Monica Holmes, it was sold to Gahrahmat, although Lewis and [continue reading]
“Story and Pictures By” at the Vogue Theater
SF Film Fest screening of Story and Pictures By at the Vogue Theater in SF, 10 a.m. on Sunday, 11/5/23. Christian Robinson expected to attend!!! “Story & Pictures By presents the history of children’s literature and how it [continue reading]
Welcome Our New Helfeld Scholars
Welcome Our New Helfeld Scholars Audrie Adams: I’m a former elementary school teacher with about ten years of experience, now transitioning into a new chapter! I recently completed a summer internship at San Bruno Public [continue reading]