ACL Meeting Friday, May 9, 2025: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, May 9, 2025, from 9:30am-Noon, over Zoom. The Zoom link will [continue reading]
Updates
Vox Books Adventure for Autistic Children
Vox Books Adventure for Autistic Children By: Eboni A. Weston My son, Aaron loves the sound effects from the story Jabari Jumps. At first, I was reading normal picture books to Aaron, but Aaron wasn’t [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]
Love and Literacy Event Set for Sat., March 15, 2025 in Fremont
A wonderful outreach opportunity is happening in Fremont on Saturday, March 15, Love and Literacy. Love and Literacy is a family event organized by schools and organizations serving the Deaf and hard of hearing community. [continue reading]
Dorothy Helfeld Fellowships Available
The 2024-25 application period is OPEN! Who is eligible? We encourage Northern California students, colleagues new to the field, or people with interest in children’s literature and librarianship to apply. About the Fellowship The fellowship [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]
Outstanding! January 2024
Outstanding Books of the Month – January 2024 Each month we post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ at our previous meeting and nominated for our year-end Distinguished List. You can see [continue reading]
Author Echo Brown Dies
Young Adult Author Echo Brown Dies: Echo Brown has died at age 39 from lupus. The Cleveland native moved to California after college and performed a one woman show at The Marsh theater. Her debut [continue reading]