Here’s one!: Stone, Tanya Lee. Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell. Marjorie Priceman, Illus. Non-fiction. Henry Holt, 2013. [40]p. $16.99. 978-0-8050-9048-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-2. It is no easy task to [continue reading]
May 2013
LEGO Summer Reading Lists Available from ALSC
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has teamed up with LEGO® DUPLO® to expand the Read! Build! Play initiative by creating the LEGO® DUPLO® Read! [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Crowder, Melanie. Parched. Fic. Harcourt, 2013. 154p. $15.99 978-0-547-97651-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8. This dystopian novel is set in an unknown country in the not too-distant future when drought has devastated the land and the people. [continue reading]
Bernard Waber, creator of “Lyle, Lyle Crocodile” Dies
Children’s author-illustrator Bernard Waber, creator of much-loved picture books about Lyle the crocodile and other anthropomorphic animals, died on May 16, 2013. He was 88. Waber was born in Philadelphia on September 27, 1924; though [continue reading]
Monterey Library Wins Award for “Reading Rockets”
Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library, CA, has been awarded the Public Library Association’s (PLA) Innovations in Literacy Award for its “Reading Rockets” youth literacy program. The library is one of only eight public libraries in the [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Fleming, Candace. On the Day I Died: Stories from the Grave . Fic. Schwartz & Wade/Random, 2012. 200p. $16.99. 978-0-375-86781-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-9. Sixteen-year-old Mike is running late and speeding when a girl appears in his [continue reading]
Do-It-Yourself Summer Reading Party – “Reading Is So Delicious!”
Summer reading program themes can be used in developing Do-It-Yourself programs. In California, the 2013 summer reading program materials from the California Library Association celebrate “Reading is So Delicious!” Here are some ideas for programs [continue reading]
Edgar Awards, “Briefings,” and ACL Pinterest Page
The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of its 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television, in celebration of the 204th anniversary of Poe’s birth: BEST [continue reading]