Teaching Tolerance & Understanding with Gene Luen Yang Gene Luen Yang, the National Book Award-nominated author of American Born Chinese kicks off a new series of webinars for educators and librarians from CBLDF with “Teaching [continue reading]
Updates
OUTSTANDING! – March 2019
Each 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]
Board Book Round-up, Part II
Board Book Round-up, Part II Chen, Eva. A Is for Awesome! 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World. Illus. by Derek Desierto. Feiwel, 2019. [30p.] $9.99. 978-1-250-21599-4. Arranged alphabetically, this joyful look at [continue reading]
Author Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Dies
Author Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Dies at Age 90: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, best-known as the creator of the “Nate the Great” series of beginning reader books, has dies at age 90. She wrote more than 130 [continue reading]
Out of the Ordinary
Lloyd, Christopher. Absolutely Everything! A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots, and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention. What on Earth Books, 10/2018, 352p. $21.99. 978-1-99980028-3-7. In this charming look at history, science, [continue reading]
Katherine Paterson Named E.B. White Award Recipient
Katherine Paterson Wins E.B. White Award: On March 11, 2019, Katherine Paterson was named the E.B. White Award winner for her lifetime of work as a children’s book author. Two of her novels received the [continue reading]
OUTSTANDING! – February 2019
Each 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]
ACL Meeting on Friday, March 8, 2019 in Oakland
ACL Meeting Friday, March 8, 2019: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, March 8, 2019, from 9am–12:30pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]