0:03 Hello and welcome to today's Infopeople webinar What's New in Children's Literature 2020 update presented by Penny Peck. Penny has been a children's librarian for more than 30 years. Her experience includes performing thousands of children's story times leading hundreds of book club discussions for students in grades 4 through 12 conducting hundreds of School tours and assemblies and reviewing children's books and media. 0:30 She has written three books on children's services and is The editor of Bay News the newsletter for the association of children's Librarians of Northern California since 2002. She has been a part-time instructor at San Jose State University School of information specializing in classes on children's and tweens services and program and I am now happy to turn the webinar over to Penny Peck. 1:03 Thank you so much. I hope everybody can hear if not just type in the chat box. Also, as you go along if there's any questions in the chat box, I'll get those conveyed to me and I'll be able to answer them. So we should have a good time. Hello. Hello everyone. This is Penny Peck. I'm delighted to return for our annual webinar on what's new in children's literature. 1:20 How can a person keep up with all the great new books published each year to keep current on collection development and on readers advisory, even if all your reader children's books, which My case you can't read everything. So this presentation should help. You know, what books to seek out and offer to your patrons in this webinar. 1:44 We show you What we're going to cover there we go in this webinar today. We're going to cover the following that are listed there on the screen. We're going to start with books for the youngest children board books picture books easy readers, then we'll move on to transitional fiction for second and third graders fiction for tweens, which I think of as grades four to eight books for reluctant readers, including graphic novels poetry and nonfiction. 2:16 All the books we discussed can be offered during readers advisory and some of them are also very good for school curriculum will also do some special topics, especially focusing on more cultural diversity in the books that we recommend to all children and our final segment is going to be on the award winners that were announced on January 27th. Most of the books covered in this webinar. 2:42 We're published in late 2019 or early 20 and we but before we do anything be sure to grab a copy of the handout with all the titles the titles are listed in the order in which I discuss them. 2:58 So the best way to do this webinar to cover basically 60 books in 60 minutes is to follow along using that hand out of the book list, and it's right here if you look at the right side of your screen, there's a toolbar And you can see that three handouts are listed. So the book list is the One That's essential to have now and then the other two you can look at at the end of the webinar. So books covered in the webinar. Also, the slides of the PowerPoint is another handout and then also have a list of helpful websites, which I'll discuss at the end as well. 3:40 So let's begin I think we want to start first with our baby books board books for very young children. And I do want to mention that throughout the webinar. There will be books read reflecting diversity. But there is another special section that just focuses on that as well. But there are diverse books throughout. So first step is one of those diverse books. It's called mama goose by Alma for Allah and F Isabel Campo. 4:12 It's from Disney Hyperion published in November 2019. And it is adapted from a picture book. Normally I like weird books that are not adapted. But this one was very good. It's a collection of lullabies in English and Spanish and it features rhymes from several Spanish speaking countries, and it can be enjoyed by those who only speak English too. So the full color artwork is also nice and it depicts children of various skin tones. 4:41 So grab Have several copies of mama goose. 4:43 You can use it for baby story time, but also offer to all your patrons another very Innovative board book was Wild colors of the of the west by Elaine Miller Bond published October 20 19 by Heyday and the use sharp color photos of animals and plants from California and other Western States that depict the colors of the prism and the caption on each photo says Where it was taken and what the name of the animal is and then of course the color so it's a great Book for a very wide age range. And then my other favorite board book coming out right now is Vehicles ABC by Johnny ho and it was published just last December. It has both the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet and the word for the each of the vehicles pictured. So it's a great alphabet book that celebrates. 5:42 cars trucks and large machines Our next book is perfect for a baby story time. It's called one hug by Katrina more illustrated by Julia wolf. It came out just last December and it's got a rhyming text celebrating a family reunions and the full color cartoonish style art depicts in a multi-generational chinese-american family sharing food and a backyard sleepover. So it's a really cute story perfect for babies. 6:14 Story Time two other new interactive type books which are also very good for story time these encourage listeners to interact by touching the book or participating in the reading in some way. First up is Lizzy Boyd's who loves books published this month by Chronicle and in it the children who are listening will guess which animal is being offered a book by squirrel and squirrels the main character. He goes to various different. 6:44 I was offering them a book and the pages are split and so I thought that was kind of unique. It has repetitive text which of course is perfect for story time because your audience can call out the repeated phrases the other book I thought was really clever was the Button book by Sally Nichols and it's was published this month by last month by Tundra and the buttons are not buttons on close their buttons that you push to hear sounds. 7:14 Which will prompt listeners to clap beep or jump around but the book doesn't actually have buttons. They're just folk chours illustrations of a button one would push but it's got a repetitive taxed and it's I think it will really be fun for the whole audience to do the action that occurs when you push push that button it also talks about colors shapes and lots of great movements and it'll bite invite lots of interaction. 7:45 So that's a great story time book now. We're going to move on to some great picture book. Some are good for Story Time. Some are better for maybe Paris to read with their kids. But these are all I think going to be really fun for your preschool audience, which I hear is ages 2 to 5. First up is my best friend by Julia folha. 8:07 No illustrated by Jillian Tamaki coming out this April 20 20 by Athenaeum in the Story two girls meet at the park and quickly become best friends young children will relate to this charming story told from the alternating viewpoints of each girl. Next up is the cool Bean by jury John illustrated by Pete Oswald. This is the third in the series about the cool beans. It's a chickpea who wants to hang out with a trio of hip beans. 8:36 It's the third book in the series and I really liked it because the cool beans are very inclusive and this is Great anti-bullying story. And the other one. I really liked that's coming out. It came out just last month is called bedtime for sweet creatures by Nikki Grimes illustrated by Elizabeth soon on from sourcebooks Jabberwocky and in this story a mother helps her toddler get ready for bed by looking for animals under the bed or you know, helping them the child kind of calm down and get ready and I thought it was really cool it. 9:13 It happens to represent an African-American family and it has really bright patterned collage illustrations. 9:22 I thought was really cool a few other new picture books coming out I think will really be popular or roar like a diet like a Dandy lion with a text by Ruth Krauss illustrated by Sergio rouget from Harper this came out last October and it Ruth crafts has many of you know, The offer of the carrot seed and lots of other classic picture books. So this was an unpublished manuscript by this author and it celebrates the alphabet with verbs that invite audience participation which included jumping falling acting sitting walking backwards and more. So it's a really fun book. 10:05 Another one that invites audience participation is everybody says meow by constants Lombardo. It came out last November from Harper and the cats and your story time audience will be saying meow in this story. 10:18 But there is a dog who Wolf's a frog who ribbit's and more and this delightful story reminded me a little bit of jewels Pfeiffer's Bark George in that it gives your audience to call out the different animal sounds and then my other good Storytime book to recommend is nuts by Lou peacock and that came out just last September from knows nosy Crow which is offshoot of Candlewick press and it's illustrated by Yasmine is male and two squirrels are fighting over nuts in this delightful story. It has a very limited text and lots of repetition of the title word title word. And so we all you know, the whole story is about will these two squirrels resolved? 11:04 They're their conflict and share the nuts and your audience will definitely participate with this one. So those are some of my favorite new picture books. 11:16 And also I always like to include an informational picture book now and then in my story times they have to be really short really grab your audience, but they do cover factual material and one of the new ones out that I really liked is nesting by Henry Cole, its - March 20 20 by harpercollins and is about the life cycle of the Robin is featured in this very lovely book with black and white artwork highlighted by the blue. Robin's egg. The text is very brief, and it's great for a bird Focus storytime seeds by car. 11:55 May lemon skates is published by Candlewick Candlewick, March 20 20, and some of lemon skates earlier books were Also informational picture books on trees and birds and things like that and that person uses a really cool graphic style for their illustrations. And in this one it's about how seeds are spread and grow perfect for preschool storytime. Susan Lindros. 12:23 The author of here we go digging for dinosaur bones illustrated by Bob Koehler also has done several really good informational books that I would catalog in the nonfiction section, but they're great for Story time this is published by Charles bridge in March 20 20. It's got a dual text on each page in large print. There is the text that's based on the rhyme Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush, but with lyrics about dinosaur bones and fossils. That is the part. I would read for your story time audience. 12:55 But also in each spread is a small paragraph that a child can read one-on-one with a parent or your kids first second and third grade might be able to read some of The text by themselves and so you've got the rhyming text on one level and then you've got the small paragraph on each spread for your older primary graders. So it's a great informational books and all kids love dinosaurs. So it's perfect for Story Time. Next up are easy readers. It's really hard to find really good easy readers in my opinion. And also it's really difficult to Divine defined culturally. 13:34 First easy readers and we need a lot more of those. So we want to continually communicate that information to our Publishers. And in my opinion it's often worth while to buy multiple copies of a really good easy reader rather than you know, one copy of each new mediocre reader that comes out. So first up I have two books in The new jack series jacket bat and Jack goes west by Mac Barnett illustrated by Greg. 14:04 Pizzoli, this is a great team. These are from Viking. These came out this month and last fall. Hijack came out. So the series began with hijack last fall. And Jack is a rabbit who has a dog named Rex the two new entries in this series are about baseball and visiting a dude ranch. These are very easy to read to me. 14:28 They're about the same level as the elephant and piggy books by Mo Willems and you know you never You can get enough of those. So this is a good series that's for that same audience because of course as many of you know, kindergarten is when they start teaching reading now and too many of our easy readers are really still more intended for first graders. So these I think we'll go over well with kids in kindergarten as well one. 14:55 That's better for the first grade audience is Penny and her sled by Kevin Henkes published by Green Willow last October and it's been Six years since Penny and Her Marble came out, but the little mouse is back this time to try out her new sled even though there's no snow and it has five simple chapters and it does have repetition that will help the first grade reader. So those are my favorite easy readers that have come out in the past few months or coming out this month our next section. We're going to talk about transitional chapter books, which are her second and third graders graphic novels poetry and nonfiction. 15:34 Action and just a definition of you might call your transitional fiction book something else bridge books moving up books. These are simple chapters sometimes with an ink drawing once or twice in each chapter and their second and third grade series books often. For example Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne is an ideal easy chapter book transitional fiction book. So that's what we're looking at in the in this category. 16:04 Now there's a new series out called hand-me-down Magic its by Corey and hey do the first one coming out last month from Harper. And the first one is called stoop sale treasure and in the story. Alma is lives with her extended family, including Abuelita who owns a secondhand shop and her best friend happens to be our cousin Dell and it's a celebration of a Puerto Rican Family told in alter alter alter name. 16:34 Being perspectives of the two cousins and Friends another good one. I really liked is high and dry from Orca press coming out this month by Eric Walters. And in this easy chapter book Dylan lives on a small remote island when a small orca whale is stranded after a storm and it's a story that will have a lot of appeal because of the animals the science and so there's facts woven into the gripping Adventure. 17:04 Three so that I thought was excellent a new poetry book for children that I think will appeal to a wide age range is Naomi shihab Nye has Cast Away poems for our time published this month by Green Willow. 17:21 So this to me is a good book for third through six, maybe even eighth graders and it has 18 new original poems not published anywhere else before it makes up this collection that focuses on things we Cast Away From empty water bottle bottles to trash to litter even to people remind ignore and it's great for focusing on the environment. So this is a great book for the Earth Day Celebrations coming up and then graphic novels of course are a huge hit. There's going to be even more being published because they're so popular. So some of the new ones I thought will really grab a wide audience. 18:04 Since include investigators by John Patrick green. This is coming out next month from first second, press it's a spoof of stuff spy novels. There's two alligators mango and Brash who live in the sewer and solve crimes investigating a missing chef. It's goofy fun that will appeal to a wide age range. The next one is a little more serious. It's called Stepping Stones published. 18:34 By random in May 20 20 so it won't be out till May but look for it. It's by Lucy. I'm not sure how to pronounce her. Last name. I think it's commit continuously, you know, but this is about a girl named Jen and she has to adjust to life living on a farm with her new stepfather and step-siblings and she used to live in a city. 18:59 So it's very different and it's based on the author's childhood and I think in a authentic story that a lot of kids will be able to relate to when they have that new blended family kind of thing two more graphic novels. I think will really be popular for fifth sixth seventh grade. You know, young middle schoolers are Nat Enough by Maria scriven published in April, 20 20 by Graphics. 19:28 It's a debut graphic novel about Natalie who begins middle school but as soon distant from her best friend, Lee who sort of have found her way with the more popular crowd and another one I really liked was Mark to to lease The Big Break it's another Middle School graphic novel coming out March 20 20 from Little Brown and this time it's a total told from the point of view of two boys Andrew and Russ once Russ gets girlfriend Andrew feels like he's out of the picture so I thought that was a really good relatable story to some new now on fiction that's fun to read because a lot of kids will read nonfiction as their chosen recreational reading and so first up is torpedoed the true story of the World War II sinking of the children ship this came out last October from Holt by Deborah hi Lichtman and it's a gripping tale of a ship carrying more than a hundred children from England to Canada for safety during World War II when the It was blown up by a U-Boat. And so this will definitely grab the attention of kids who like books about the Titanic. It has photos and artwork that Illustrated as well that helps break up the text. Now another good book that with a wide age range is fly high John Glenn by Kathleen crawl published this month from Harper and is a great picture book biography on the heroic astronaut. 21:04 Who later Came a u.s. Senator and it emphasizes his training and achievement as the first person to orbit orbit Earth some other good nonfiction. I think that will be good to recommend for fun is bugs in danger by Mark Kerr Lansky published last November by Bloomsbury and kolecki is one of those few nonfiction authors who write equally well for adults as well as children and his latest book describes. 21:34 Why certain insects like bees and butterflies are disappearing and why that matters to us as humans another good book. I think we'll have a wide age range of an audience is the next president by Kate Messner published by Chronicle next month and it's an entertaining look at the young lives of the u.s. Presidents and it's filled with fun Snippets and trivia about their childhood schooling and their quirks. 22:04 Yes, so let's take us just a second. If there's any other brand new coming out like since December new favorites you want to mention in these categories picture books new nonfiction new graphic novels coming out. But remember I'm going to cover the award winners at the end so you don't have to mention those. 22:28 But if there are any feel free to type them into our chat box and will convey them to Buddy as well. 22:37 Non-fiction, I think we can't I think is sometimes underrated as recommending to read for fun and we don't want to do that. So I'm going to move on because we've got a lot of other things to cover but feel free to type any titles that you would like to recommend into the chat box. Next up. I'm going to go over tween genre fiction and Tweed books is a huge category its novels for ages 8 to 12 generally grades for two. 23:07 Eat, you know those that are a little bit too young for ya novels but are moving out of transitional fiction and I think you can see what the panelists I mean what the audience is typing Jane Cabrera's books are all great for story time. She does a lot of them based on popular songs or finger plays. So yes definitely look for those. But anyway back to Tween fiction. These can be different genres fantasy historical. 23:37 Or fiction Adventure mystery as you can see on your screen. And so these tend to be for independent readers. So very often when you're talking to a child or student of this age group, you'll say well what have you read recently that you really liked and they'll say what? Oh, I just finished Little Women. What do you have that's kind of similar or you know, anything like that. 23:59 I just finished this great science fiction novel about some kids who disappeared and they describe it you can often just Recommend other books in that same genre. So that's what we're going to cover in this next segment. 24:14 So first up is the fantasy novel The thousand year old boy by Ross Welford. This was originally published in English. And then it came to us is by Schwartz and Wade Publishers coming out last October and the boy in the story is Alvey and he stuck at age 11 because he's one of a group of people called The Never Dead's he's befriended by two regular kids Roxy and Aiden who helped him hide out after after. 24:44 Mother dies in a house fire and so all three kids are searching for an antidote to the potion that made alvia never dead in this clever fantasy, very original and different and then in the chat box you could see somebody recommended Pluto gets the call by Adam Rex. Excellent. Thank you. 25:08 Fantasies always really popular. So this is something that's a little bit different. 25:13 Historical fiction two books that I read recently that came out in late fall of 2019 are Allen gratzes allies DJ one chance to unite everything to lose and it was really good. 25:29 It takes place over 24 hours of D-Day and is told from the point of view of three different characters d a young American soldier who originally came from Germany Henry an For can American medic and Samira a young girl who's a member of the French underground? 25:47 It's a gripping War Story with lots of factual information woven in and then Anthem by Deborah Wiles published by Scholastic last fall is book three of the 60s trilogy, but it's totally stands on its own is about cousins Molly and Norman who travel in an old school bus from the south to San Francisco in search of Molly's brother who's avoiding the draft in nam and it's filled with references to the music of that time. In fact on Spotify. You can even go to a list that list the songs in the order that they come up in the novel The Mystery horror genre the ghost in apartment to our by Dennis Markel. I think we'll have lots of appeal it came out last November Danny's Brooklyn apartment has a ghost who's taken over his older brother older brother's bedroom after the brothers left for college. 26:43 And invades that space who they were renting to are Hotel guests. So luckily Danny has two friends who help them figure out who's haunting that bedroom. 26:54 Or some good new realistic contemporary fiction. We have king and the dragonflies by case and calendar published this month and King copes with the sudden death of his older brother as well as coming out as gay in this thoughtful story of a complex complex African-American family. Another good one is Leslie Connors a home for goddesses and dogs. It's about Lydia who's also dealing with the death of a family. 27:23 Remember her mother as she goes to live with her aunt brat and brats wife Eileen on a farm while befriending their new rescue dog in a very heartfelt tale, you know, all the kids. There's a lot of kids that like books that make you cry. My favorite new science fiction book. I think has a great art on the jacket that will really draw in readers midnight on strange Street by ke Ormsby published this past January 2020 by Disney. 27:53 Hyperion and it's about four friends who make up the glow boarding team in their small, Texas town where the for gain the ability to telepathically communicate and move things with their minds. So this reminded me a little bit of TV stranger things so you can recommend meant it to the tweens who like stranger things. 28:18 And I just want to mention somebody loved bug boys. There's a few other ones you can see here kids extraordinary. And so there are several other you can see here in the chat box folks are recommending. Thank you. There was an old astronaut Who Swallowed the moon a good day for a hat. Alright. Thank you so much. And then I want to mention two new entries in popular series. You don't want to miss. 28:47 This one is the one and only Bob coming out this May 20 2014 Colin's this is by Katherine Applegate who won the Newbery for The One and Only Ivan. This is the follow-up this time focusing on the dog Bob Ivan and Ruby help Bob search for his long-lost sister when suddenly a hurricane approaches. So, you know, this will be popular and fun and then another Surefire winner is a new Pete the Cat. 29:17 Book that came out last September Pete the Cat and the perfect pizza party and is a picture book about Pete making pepperoni pizza, but as gas and other toppings and is is this going to ruin what his great Creations are so if you have any other tween books you want to type in feel free to do that as well. 29:38 So these would be any picture book any tween novels that came out late fall or coming out right now this spring All right. I'm going to move on because we want to talk about more Multicultural books for our age group 0 to 12 and there's a lot of discussion about more Multicultural books. And that's why the whole we need diverse books movement is so popular and to sum it up. 30:05 I think we basically need two kinds of books one where the people in the story happen to be of the people of color, but the story isn't really about that and the Example of that is the classic the snowy day by Ezra Jack Keats, which is about a little African American Boy and the snowy day, but it isn't about being African-American necessarily, but we also need those as well as good stories about different cultures where there's more of a focus on that. So that's what we're going to talk about both kinds and first up for younger children. There's The Three Billy Goats buenos by Susan Middleton Ellie. 30:46 Leah this is coming out next month by Putnams and it's got a bilingual rhyming text and it's an update of folktale The Three Billy Goats Gruff. This is perfect for story time. And then another book that came out last fall from a smaller publisher. Greystone is Birdsong by Julie flat. So in case you missed it because it is from a small publisher. I think it's going to be a great popular book, especially with teachers who can use in their classrooms. 31:16 And it's a story about a Cree family a younger mu a young girl moves to the country and learns about nature from her elderly neighbor Agnes and it has a few Cree words in it and it's perfect for primary graders learning about the seasons a few a multicultural books for older children include Fair rocks fifth grade published by Stone Arch in January 2020 by Susan wanted a garage. 31:45 It's a a chapter book perfect for third fourth and fifth graders and Sarah's worried about the bullying of her younger brother by a white student since her family's Arab an arab-american and that's what the bullying is about. So it's very timely and I think it will be just the right. It is very age-appropriate even for third and fourth graders, but dealing with a serious topic but in an age-appropriate way another good book that is called when you trap. 32:16 Tiger bite I killer published by random in January 2020 and it's about a girl whose korean-american Lily and her family move in with their grandmother to take care of her and grandmother has a mythical tiger living in the basement who wants his stories back from Grandma and then many of you I know will recognize the name Pam, you knows Ryan who wrote Esperanza rising and lots of other award-winning books and in this This new book Mañana land coming out next month, March 20 20 Max finds out his family has been assisting refugees who've arrived in their small town in Mexico from a neighboring dictatorship. So they're refugees fleeing a dictatorship and Max is determined to help them when he meets a girl named Isadora. So I think that's another very relevant book, but age appropriate for that Target. 33:16 Audience they'll be able to understand it to Multicultural non-fiction books. I really liked was infinite Hope by Ashley Bryan the award-winning illustrator and in a way, he's like a living legend. He's just one of the best and this is like a scrapbook of photographs and artwork from his time as a very young Soldier during World War II and and a large part of it focuses on D-Day. 33:43 So it's a great companion book to the Novel allies by Alan grants that I mentioned a few minutes ago. This came out last October from Athenaeum and I think it will really inspire a lot of kids who like nonfiction another good book that I thought kind of flew under the radar but it was really helpful was child of the dream A Memoir of 1963 by Sharon Robinson came out from school a stick last fall and as you know, she's the daughter of Jackie Robinson and it describes this me. 34:16 Rubble year when the family don't join, dr. King in the March on Washington and other activities her whole family did as part of the Civil Rights Movement. So those are both really good books. I didn't want to anyone to miss out on in our next section. I'm going to go quickly over the recent Award winners, but we want to highlight those and then I'll also conclude with the section about really helpful websites to keep up with what's new. 34:46 And up first is our Newberry winner the new kid by jury craft which may be just coincidental. But this was my favorite book of 2019. So I was overjoyed when I heard that it won this award and just to save time all the books in this award area were published in 2019. They were announced on January 27th, 2020 and on your website hand out. There's a link to the website. 35:16 With all of the Newbery Award all the award winners and the honor books. So as you know new kid is a graphic novel. It's the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Award. It's about a boy named Jordan who adjust to his new private school where he is one of the few African-American students and deals with micro aggressions. It's funny and it's real and I thought this was very relatable. I just I just can't talk enough about how exciting it is. 35:46 Is the honor book was there's four different honor books for the Newbery The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander is an illustrated poem that's celebrates African American heroes, and it's perfect to recite for a Black History Month assembly or any time to tell a more complete story than our textbooks. Do another Newbery honor book is scary stories for young. 36:16 Just by Christian McKay Heidecker and it's seven young foxes. Ask for scary Bedtime Stories and are treated to them by an old Fox who weaves together eight folklore influenced Original Stories. This is not for the faint of heart. There's a lot of death in the story and but you know for kids who like the graveyard book and that other Middle School level it will have a lot of appeal other words for home by yeah. 36:46 Jasmine warga published by balzer and Bray is a novel in verse about a girl named Jude and her mother who moved from Syria to her uncle's house in Cincinnati and it's a great immigration story because it's about a family divided because Jude's father and brother stay in Syria. And so that I think hasn't been addressed as often in books on Refugee experience. The the other Newbery honor is Genesis begins again. 37:16 Which is also for a little older student middle grade middle school not not middle grade middle school. So like sixth grade up by Alicia Dee Williams, and it's about a family whose evicted and moves out of the city and in her new school Genesis is able to excel in the school choir, but she still has a lot of angst and difficulty. She's in a way she hates herself and wishes for a lighter skin color and relaxed hair. 37:45 R and so colorism is a big issue and this deals with it really well and I thought it was very unique the Caldecott award. This year was Kwame Alexander's The Undefeated which was also a Newbery honor book. So that was sort of unique. The illustrator is Kadir Nelson who's does exemplary work and the Newbery honor the Caldecott honor books? Excuse me. 38:13 There were three of them and bear came along to be was the one Best used for story time. It's illustrated by luo. Yin fam whose illustrations are always joyous and colorful and it's Richard by written. It's written by Richard team War has published by little brown. It's about a bear who's on a tree limb when the tree limb falls into the river and he breaks off over this River and sub please like it's like a log ride and other animals one by one jump onto the log ride. It's a story with repetition. 38:45 It's perfect for storytime. It's really funny and the artwork is really engaging. 38:52 Two others deal with diverse characters one is double bass Blues illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez written by Andrea jail uni or Loney published by Knopf and it's got a very very brief text and it's about this boy named Nick who's an amazing bass Solo in the school concert goes over really big but now he's gotta take his squiz big bass home. 39:21 And he's got to do it on the school bus and it rains and it was really funny and it's like I said that the narrative is really brief very short fragments of sentences. 39:32 So I think it'll really be fun going down home with Daddy to me appeals to a little older picture book audience, maybe one through five grades one through five because it does talk about slavery and Jim Crow and other things that the on the Aliens will need help understanding and about Alan and his African-American family. They get ready for the family reunions on the farm. 40:01 So they drive from the city to the farm and the family has owned this farm for generations. And that's where it comes in about growing cotton about Jim Crow about slavery and it's very useful but it is for a little bit older picture book audience. The next award is the Schneider which the Schneider award celebrates books about people with disabilities. 40:26 And in the younger category, the winner was Sonia Sotomayor are yes That Sonia Sotomayor the Supreme Court Justice, it's called just ask be different be brave and be you and it's about a group of friends who are working on a family garden and each of them talks about their different challenges which include asthma or diabetes and so to some Sonia my or has had diabetes since she was seven years old. The one for the older group category is song for a whale by Lynn Kelly which is a middle. 41:00 Grade novel and Irish is the only death student in her class, but her ability with electronics. That's our try to communicate with a whale I haven't read that yet. But I'm really looking forward to it. The Stonewall books that that celebrates lgbtq include for the younger group when Aiden became a brother by Kyle Locke off published by Lee and low and Aidan is a transgender boy who wants to welcome his new baby sibling by doing all the right things. 41:31 And the family depicted happens to be African-American in the artwork, but that really isn't spelled out in the text. And then the winner for the older group is the why I novel The Black Flamingo by Jean Atta published by Hodder and it's a young adult novel in verse about Michael who lives in London where his by racial identity makes them feel alone sometimes but soon he discovers the drag society and that's where he finally fits. 42:00 in I'm for these next two words. I won't have time to go over the honor books, but you can look those up on the AL a website that's listed on your handout. So don't forget to look for those because the honor books just like the Newberry and Caldecott or sometimes the ones that really are the most useful for a story time or the most appealing to The Wider age group. You never know. So look for those the sibert award for nonfiction. The winner happens to be a picture book this year. 42:31 It's I bred a Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Millard or my yard. I'm not sure illustrated by Juana Martinez Neal and it's published by roaring book. It's an informational picture book about a family who makes traditional Native American fry bread. And yes a recipe is included and lots of other facts about Native American history. 42:57 The guys will award which goes to the best beginning reader goes to stop bought by James Yang and it happens to be a picture book not an easy reader in format and it's about a boy who loses his it's not really a robot. 43:11 It's a drone and soon the other people even apartment building try to help him retrieve his drone and there's lots of repetition The Narrative is Written in dialogue balloons, so you can see where early readers because of the repetition very short dialogue balloons would really be good for them. 43:34 Now the Coretta Scott King author and illustrator book happened for the very first time in in for both of them to be the Newberry and the Caldecott winner as well in the past, but not bunny But Not Buddy And by Christopher Paul Curtis won both the Newberry and the Coretta Scott King Arthur Ward, but that year the illustrator did not win the Caldecott and and the credits got King. This is the first time this has ever happened. So we definitely want to have lots of copies of both of these and we want to make sure teachers know about them. So that's be sure to for looking at all the honor books. Be sure to look at that website the Pura belpré a author and illustrator. 44:23 The author winner was Sal and Gabi break the universe published by Disney Hyperion and written by Carlos Hernandez. You might be already aware of this. It's already a best-seller and it's under the Rick Riordan imprint and it's a debut novel that features two latino friends at school who deal with transporting objects from other universes and other strange sci-fi and counters. It's been popular with those who like Mysteries. 44:52 Cool stories and science fiction. The other straighter award went to dancing hands how Theresa car ran. Yo played the piano for President Lincoln by Rafael Lopez and the author's Margarita angle and Theresa and her family moved to New York from Venezuela where despite obstacles. She becomes a great musician and composer and plays for President Lincoln when she's just 10 years of age. 45:21 The Asian Pacific American award for literature. They break it down by age and the picture book winner was Queen of physics. 45:29 How woo Chen XI young helped unlock the secrets of the atom by Teresa Robeson and it's a picture book biography about a girl in China whose encouraged by her parents to study science, which at that time was relatively unusual and she eventually moved to the United States where she studies atoms and even though she was Overlooked by the Nobel Prize. I think this will Empower young female scientists the one for older readers, which is actually a good fourth fifth grade. Graphic. 46:02 Novel is stargazing by Jan Wang published by first second is about to friends and next door neighbors who happen to both be chinese-american, but they're very different and how they become friends and kind of want to shy and one is outgoing and they sort of just fill in Each other's gaps. I thought that was nice the American Indian youth literature award went to powwow powwow powwow by Brenda James child published by Minister Minnesota historical society. And it's an English and Ojibwe and in this story Uncle tells stories too windy girl as they travel to a powwow with her dog and it's a great example of Native American culture. That's contemporary. 46:51 Because too often the books are set in the past and it's great to celebrate contemporary Native Americans. The one for older middle grade novel went to Indian No More by Charlene willing McManus published by the imprint to books to you books by Lee and low and it's based on the author's childhood and its historical novel based on the fact that in the 1950s a lot of them native. 47:21 Has lost their tribal memberships because the government took away their land and they had to move to urban areas. And in this case, it's Los Angeles and Regina moves from her family tribal home in Oregon after it's taken away and in their Urban settings, they really dealt with difficult economic and cultural issues. 47:45 So if you're looking to find what's doing children's Some of the ways to do that is to go to the website. No flying no tights for updates on new graphic novels. There's more graphic novels being published because of the success of books like from American Born Chinese from several years ago, which won the national book award, but definitely because of the Newberry when by the new kid by Jerry craft, so look at no flying no time. 48:21 It's for lots of great new. Graphic novels Publishers Weekly lists, I think as Librarians I've noticed. Oh, what's the age range for powwow? I would say grades 1 to 5. Great question. Thank you. Even though it's a picture book. I don't think it's a preschool picture book. It's great for elementary school-age. Thank you for asking. But anyway back to Publishers Weekly. 48:47 Unfortunately, I've noticed a lot of books a lot of Briefs, we automatically by all the best sellers for the adults, but we need to look at the best sellers for kids as well. 49:03 Very often best sellers are books based on TV show or things like SpongeBob SquarePants, but a lot of times they're really good books like that when I mentioned before that when the Pura belpré award it's been on the bestseller list now for a while Salen Gabi break the universe so So let's look for those because I think it's unfortunate for kid, you know dog man by Dave pilk. He's a perfect example. Let's look for more books on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list and have those because a lot of kids cannot afford to buy them at the bookstore. So I think that's a good way to keep up with what's new. Be sure to look at that alaa list that I mention of all the honor books. 49:49 Not just the word winners, but Honor books because they very often have more child appeal than the winner and I want to mention there's free webinars like this run from info people but also from booklist magazine and school library journal for example in info people's offering the webinar new books for story time. It's free. I'm actually a presenter of that one and that's on Wednesday April 22nd. 50:17 And again, we'll be going through lots of great new picture books that have lots of interaction cumulative circular concept books books are based on songs and finger plays. So that's a new webinar coming up from info people, but they're not the only ones who give free webinars book list and school library Journal are also really good at that. Another thing I get asked a lot about when we're talking about what's new is we want to offer new books when kids tell us what they've read before. 50:51 We're in liked and basically that's finding read-alikes. And so for those older kids those tween fiction book readers grades 4-8 when we find out. What did you read recently that you really liked and very often it's Diary of a Wimpy Kid or they'll mention the name of a book. And so we want to find other books that are similar and in the that case sometimes it's just the genre if it's Harry Potter. We want to look at other fantasy. 51:21 They fantasy if it's Call of the Wild which is a new movie coming out. It's other adventure stories with the dog in it. Sometimes it's as easy as finding other books by that author or in that series finding the same genre, but sometimes it's a little more refined like for Diary of a Wimpy Kid we want to find other novels that have paragraphs but also have drawings throughout the story. They're not really graphic. 51:51 Those but they have lots of drawings almost every page as well as paragraphs and there's lots of ways to do that. 52:00 So one place to find read-alouds read-alikes is the website bayview's dot org and go to the section on read-alikes and I'd happen to do that website, but we have at least one or two every month and they're popular series Authors Best Sellers dog man is on there and then you can find A list between 15 and 20 other books that are similar if it's just finding other books in a series this website here on the screen that you see is a website from the it's a website from a library The Mid Continent Public Library in Missouri. Their site is really good on listing books in a series in that the order because I know a lot of kids. 52:49 I mean, it's A funny for example for Goosebumps. It doesn't matter what order you read them in because it's not the kind of Series where things go from the same characters. They're they're basically like a television show like The Twilight Zone when they don't have continuing characters, but a lot of kids there. They want to read books in a series and sometimes it is relevant that the there are continuing characters from book to book but this website lists all the different series. It's really helpful. 53:21 Awful, you can also find books that are similar to different movies that are popular. You can find series by subject matter, you know, if kids like time travel books you can find other books with time travel. So be sure to look for those and then we just have a minute or two. If you have any questions, you can type those in but I wanted to mention what happens because we're going to run out of time and just a few minutes. It's very common to think of questions. Later. 53:51 So feel free to email me. There's my email right there. It's really short. I always am glad to answer questions by email. If you have a book that you get asked about. You know, what are similar books? I'd like to read a like for this certain book email me and I'll do a Rita like list and put it on that bayview's website. It's very simple to ask for that and it doesn't take me too long to get that done. 54:21 And so feel free. So if you have any questions, feel free to type those in we have a couple of minutes and I'm going to leave this slide up because it's got my website. I mean, it's got my email on there. I think that more and more kids are using our websites the library website to look for recommendations, and they don't always ask for people in person even though that that's a main part of our job. 54:50 So Feel free to look for ways to boost up your website to offer lists of books to recommend. Somebody says what's next is another good website for series. Thank you KDL. What's next? I'm going to write that down. Thank you so much. So we'll look for that KDL. What's next? I'm sure we can find that. 55:14 That's always good. I think there's several other websites I've listed but that was not one that's on the handout. So thank you for offering that. Yes. Was that Mary or that was from a an attendee? Oh good. Okay - yeah, very good. Thank you asks. You have a favorite preschool music book for a one book read. 55:40 So if you go to my bayview's website, If you use dot org, I have a whole section in the story time lists of books and there's one about songs. So I can't say what my favorite is because I have hundreds but it's got a whole list of picture books based on songs and finger plays that you can read Allied or rounds similar to the ones that you had meant. Somebody had mentioned my James Jane Cabrera. I have lots of other listed on there. 56:11 You can't miss it and gosh, well, I think The common ones are good because we have so many kids that come from different countries at least where I live that things that we take for granted that everybody knows five little monkeys jumping on the bed or wheels on the bus or things like that. They don't often know to we introduced it to them at story time. 56:39 Somebody said what age range is love that dog by Sharon Creech, I would put that even though it's fairly easy to read I would put that because of the depth of the tragic things that happen spoiler alert is fourth grade and up not third grade, but fourth grade and up and then somebody said what's the age range for? 57:09 Queen of physics, which is the picture book that won the Asian American Pacific Islander award. I would say it's a picture book biography. So I would say grades 1 to 5. 57:20 Any good websites for books by grade level Lexile is good because a lot of times that will help kids and but the problem is kids don't fall into even though might they might be a fourth grader. They'll read Harry Potter so it can be kind of difficult. 57:43 But Lexile if they do know their Lexile level or they can tell you the name of a book and you can look up the Lexile level and find other books. So that is an easy way to do it fountas and Pinnell which is a grading system. They use to schools you have to pay and be a member of and same with Accelerated Reader. So most public libraries don't have access to those but anybody can go on Lex al.com. Also, don't forget that a lot of kids novels. 58:12 If you look at a paperback novel and turn it over to the back cover. It'll say RL 4.8. That means fourth grade about you know, three quarters of the way through so it's a little lower than fifth grade, but not much or it'll say three point six. So that's halfway through third grade or 6 point something. That means it's a 6th grade book. So look look for that for tween fiction. Then we have a couple of other questions. Do you recommend that? 58:42 Libraries have a separate section for tween books in my personal experience. It's the problem is Transitional fiction books are not always in a separate section. So the third those second and third graders who outgrown easy readers, but for whom chapter books even the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary are too long or too challenging. There's not a lot of places for them to go unless you separate out the transitional fiction. 59:12 Books, they'll go straight to the paperback books to look for Magic Tree House and those simple easy chapter book series, but I would also have the hardback section Transit. We separated ours. We've been that way in my library for forever, but not all libraries do that. So between books that's grades. 59:35 Once they've moved up from transitional fiction second and third grade easy chapter books, then they moved to the Twain chapter books which are often for fourth through eighth graders, although eighth graders. Also, of course use the why a section, but those have like all the Harry Potter books all the Beverly Cleary books pretty much and so that means that I wide age range because you have a lot of different kinds of kids. So that's something to remember Fantastic Fiction is also good for keeping track of series. Thank you. I have not heard of that. I assume that's a website Fantastic Fiction. Thank you. 1:00:12 Looks like that's all the questions that we have and we're right at the top of the hour. Perfect timing. Yeah. Well, thank you everybody. Like I said before don't hesitate to email me if you think of something later you want to ask and I'll definitely follow up great. Thank you so much Penny. Thank you so much for our audience. 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