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2020 CLEL Bell Award Winners
In the midst of January changing over to February, I missed the announcement of the 2020 CLEL Bell Award Winners! Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL) is an amazing resource for librarians, teachers, parents, and caregivers with great book suggestions and tips and tricks for storytimes. I’m a huge proponent…
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2020
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book – Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom by Teresa Robeson, illustrated by Rebecca HuangHonor – Bilal Cooks Daal by Aisha Saeed, illustrated by Anoosha Syed Middle Grade – Stargazing by Jen WangHonor – I’m OK…
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Beyond the Youth Media Awards, Book Lists for Kids and Teens
Knowing that thousands of books are published every year, how do you help your children decide what to read? Beyond the Youth Media Awards, I discussed last week, ALA also offers a number of book lists for kids and teens. These include both Notable lists identifying the best of the…
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ALA Youth Media Awards 101
I’m inspired by the college campuses across the country heading back to school this week. So, I thought I’d educate my readers on a topic I love. Every year, I gush over what I like to call my Oscars, Super Bowl, [insert mega-award here], etc. the American Library Association’s (ALA)…
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Building a Home Library
Check out the Children’s Book Council’s 2016 Building a Home Library booklist created by theĀ ALSCās Quicklists Consulting CommitteeĀ and theĀ ALA-Childrenās Book Council (CBC) Joint Committee, of which I am a part of. Ā These booklists are created every other year and include not only classic stories, but newly published material…
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Advocacy – The Easy Way
I’m so proud of myself – I actually read through Children & Libraries (the spring 2015 edition) already!Ā There were lots of interesting articles, but the one that stood out to me the most was “It’s How You Say It” written by Jenna Nemec-Loise about the importance of using value-based…
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I’m leaving on a jet plane…
I’m making my way to Las Vegas this evening to spend the weekend at the ALA Annual Conference!Ā If you can’t get the chance to get away this year, make sure you check out what’s happing on Twitter – #alaac14.Ā I’ll also be live blogging for the ALSC blog, so…
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2014 Youth Media Awards
I was going to take a break today from my blog to reflect on my conference experience and decide what I wanted to share, but I couldn’t miss this HUGE event that happened this morning…. the Youth Media Awards were announced!Ā Now, for many of my friends, this epic event…
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Community Outreach – Story Time at the Intermediate Unit
For the past three years, our library has provided an outreach to the county Intermediate Unit offering story time once a month for the preschool class. I visit the classroom on the first Thursday of the month seeing two different classes of children – one in the morning, the other…
