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Illustrated children's book cover showing a mother and child baking bread together.

Book recommendations — June 2024

  • Posted 04 June 2024
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Books

This month we feature Rising by Sidura Ludwig, illustrator Sophia Vincent Guy, and Everything Possible by Fred Small, illustrator Alison Brown

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Illustrated book cover of What if One Day… The cover features a young child looking up and pointing into the sunny yellow sky at a bird that flies past

Book Recommendation — April 2024

  • Posted 02 April 2024
  • By Adrienne Grace
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What If One Day… by Bruce Handy encourages young readers to imagine what would happen if all the birds flew away.

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Watercolor of a young girl looking up at books which are floating over her head like balloons. Text reads Children's Books Virtual Book Club

March Book Club Meeting

  • Posted 05 March 2024
  • By Adrienne Grace
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March children’s book club meeting with be on March oth at 11am PT. The topic will be children’s book illustrators

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Illustrated book cover of 5 African American boys in casual clothes walking along a park pathway.

Book Recommendation — March 2024

  • Posted 04 March 2024
  • By Adrienne Grace
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Bros, by Carol Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Reggie Brown, shows a group of Black boys caring for their community and each other.

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Collage of 4 children's illustrated book covers: The Eyes of the Impossible, Mi Papa es un Agricola, Eagle Drums, and Celebration

ALA Youth Media Awards 2024

  • Posted 06 February 2024
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Books

4 selections from the 2024 ALA Youth Media awards include Celebration, Eagle Drums, Mi Papa Es Un Agricola, and The Eyes & the Impossible

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Illustrated book cover of Ways to Play, with a boy playing with a grey spotted dog on its hind legs. 2 other children are in the background playing in the grass

Book Recommendations — February 2024

  • Posted 06 February 2024
  • By Adrienne Grace
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February 2024 Book recommendations are both by Lyn Miller-Lachmann, including Ways to Play and She Persisted: Temple Grandin

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Children’s Literature Book Club Report

  • Posted 06 January 2024
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Books/ News

The Children’s Book Club met on December 2nd and discussed When the Fog Rolls In and The Cardboard Kingdom.

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Book cover: Go Left. Illustration of a young boy looking up at a large directional sign.

Book Recommendations — January 2024

  • Posted 05 January 2024
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Books

January 2024’s book recommendations are “When Things Aren’t Going Right, Go Left” by Marc Colagiovanni and “A Rose Named Peace” by Barbara Carroll Roberts

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