New ACL BayNews Posted: The June 2015 BayNews (the newsletter for the Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California) is now available on our website: http://www.bayviews.org You will find the second part of our Spring Board Book Round-up, Read-alikes for Paper Towns, new storytime themes on dinosaurs and sizes, and much more. Updated pages include:
http://bayviews.org/index.html
http://bayviews.org/calendar.html
http://bayviews.org/baynews.html
http://bayviews.org/baynews/news201506.html
http://bayviews.org/storytime.html
http://bayviews.org/storytime/stsizes.html
http://bayviews.org/storytime/stdino.htm
http://bayviews.org/readalikes.html
http://bayviews.org/readalikes/papertowns.html
Article on Children’s Book Publishing in the Bay Area: Check out this interesting take on children’s book publishing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Thanks to Ruth Gordon for forwarding this to us! 
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/67103-bay-area-spotlight-2015-the-wild-west-of-kids-books.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=84316de5a0-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-84316de5a0-304449365#path/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/67103-bay-area-spotlight-2015-the-wild-west-of-kids-books.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=84316de5a0-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-84316de5a0-304449365
How to Motivate Kids to Read: Another useful and interesting article, this one on using “reading rituals” to motivate children to read: www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/books/review/a-guide-to-reading-rituals.html?emc=edit_bk_20150612&nl=books&nlid=1274360&_r=0
Pride Month – List of LGBTQ-Positive Children’s Books: Need some titles for your LGBTQ display? Check out this list of books that have positive LGBTQ depictions for children: www.bustle.com/articles/87976-30-lgbtqia-positive-childrens-books-thatll-teach-kids-how-beautifully-diverse-the-world-is
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