Check out the website: http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/store/resources/ for lists of recommended books and links to lesson plans and activities, all focused on teaching children tolerance, diversity, and global citizenship. Find links to lists of anti-bias children’s books, [continue reading]
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Upcoming Free ALSC Webinars – Autumn 2012
Upcoming Free ALSC Webinars – Autumn 2012 *This webinar is being offered free to personal ALSC members. Registration for non-members is $55. “You don’t have to clear your schedule to sign up for an ALSC [continue reading]
2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
On June 7, 2012, at BookExpo America, The Horn Book’s editor in chief Roger Sutton and 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-winning author Rebecca Stead (When You Reach Me, Random House) announced the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn [continue reading]
Still Need Summer Reading Ideas?
Check out Susan Dailey’s blog, with storytime songs appropriate for the “Dream Big” summer reading theme: http://www.susanmdailey.com/2012SRP.html Check out the California Library Association’s ideas, given by Youth Services librarians at the last conference, available at: [continue reading]
“Briefings” Newsletter from CLA
The latest issue of the Briefings Newsletter from the California Library Association’s Youth Services Interest Group is now available: http://www.cla-net.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=261 . The new editor is Celeste Stewart of the Alameda County Library System, and ACL [continue reading]
2012 South Asia Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
2012 South Asia Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2012 Winners Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw (Henry Holt and Company, 2011). Pen Pals Elliot and Kailash discover that even though [continue reading]
Jean Craighead George Dies at age 92
Author Jean Craighead George, best known for her middle grade novels such as Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain, has died at the age of 92. A cause of death has [continue reading]
Teen Read 2012 Website Offers Ideas
YALSA launched its Teen Read Week 2012 website at http://teenreadweek.ning.com/ . Teen Read Week will be celebrated Oct. 14-20, with a theme of It Came from the Library, which dares teens to read for the [continue reading]