ACL’S Distinguished Books List Now Available: Below is a link to a place where you can view and download the 2012 ACL Distinguished Books list. This PDF document is quite large, so please take note [continue reading]
April 2013
ACL Dorothy Helfeld Fellowships Available!
Children’s Librarianship – Is it for you? The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California (ACL) invites students of children’s librarianship and/or children’s literature to apply for one of three annual membership scholarships. Discover a [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Idle, Molly. Flora and the Flamingo. Molly Idle, Illus. Pic. Bk. Chronicle, 2013. [44]p. $16.99. 978-1-4521-1006-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-1. What do a slightly pudgy little girl in flippers, bathing suit, and cap and a graceful [continue reading]
Konigsburg, Feller Bauer Die, ALSC Workshop and Summer Reading Lists
Caroline Feller Bauer Dies at age 77: Caroline Feller Bauer died April 15, 2013, at the age of 77, in Miami, Florida, where she lived for many years. She wrote several books used by children’s [continue reading]
2013 Beatty Award Goes to The Camping Trip That Changed America
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]
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]
Handouts on “We’re History” from the ACL Institute
Those who attended yesterday’s ACL Institute “We’re History” enjoyed learning about how to share history with children – especially family history, and local and California history. If you could not attend, be sure to check out the [continue reading]