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We are one of the nation’s leading children’s book review journals for school and public librarians. We provide concise summaries and critical evaluations to help you find the books you need for your library’s collection.
February’s Big Picture
Minimal text makes a big impact in this month’s Big Picture, Deborah Underwood’s Ducks! After poor little Duck loses sight of its family, our feathered protagonist follows a series of clues that seem to lead to a possible reunion, but instead upend reader expectations. The book depends on an easy-to-follow pattern of hopeful DUCKS?/ disappointed NO DUCKS that promises engagement and will make for a giggle worthy storytime.
2019 Bulletin Blue Ribbons
It’s that reflective time of year again, when we cast our eyes back to the books of the past twelve months and see which ones hold magic for us from this perspective. It was an especially glorious year for history, both fiction and nonfiction, while the picture books offered superb originality. You may not have known you needed a book about the Greek gods and World War I, the birth of food safety laws, or a wolf merchant’s trip to the marketplace, but 2019’s Blue Ribbons proves that we all do.
The 2019 Guide Book to Gift Books is here!
The holiday season brings a host of gift-giving opportunities and we’re here to help! Our latest Guide Book to Gift Books is updated and revised edition to assist you with all your shopping needs–because who gives anything besides books, right? With over one hundred titles, annotated and organized by age group, our choices are sure to please even your most challenging recipient–and there’s always the bonus of adding a few books to your own TBR list to use that gift card on.
Gryphon Award
This Is MY Fort! and What Is Inside THIS Box?, written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Olivier Tallec, and published by Scholastic Press, are the winners of the 2020 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature. The prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding English language work of fiction or non-fiction that is exemplary in its bridging of the gap in difficulty between books for reading aloud to children and books for practiced readers.
ALA Awards
The American Association has announced its Youth Media Awards. You can check out the full list here or at the ALA website.
