Children's News & Events @ Berkeley Public Library
March 2016



March is Women's History Month. Our Children's Services invites you to visit and enjoy materials about a wide variety of nonfiction subjects, including the history of the women's movement and many biographies about amazing women in all fields.

March is also Youth Art Month! Create something!

Spring is just around the corner - time to enjoy some excellent nonfiction at Berkeley Public Library, perfect for
STEM, STEAM, and COMMON CORE!
 
The American Library Association's ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children) sponsors the annual Sibert information book awards.  The winners were announced in January.

Take a look, too, at great nonfiction books for teens from The Young Adult Library Services Association's (YALSA's) Nonfiction Award winners, and YALSA's 2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

March is also Read Aloud Month! All are wonderful books to check out and read aloud! They might be available in ebook or audiobooks, too. Let us help you find what you need for school and for all kinds of fun.

March is Youth Art Month
Makerspace @Claremont
Saturday, March 5
10:00am-11:30am 
This month in honor of Youth Art Month and the first signs of a Bay Area springtime, we decorate paper lanterns while supplies last. Our monthly Makerspace event is free and for all ages and abilities.

Author Marissa Moss @North
Wednesday, March 9
3:30pm-4:15pm
North Branch
In honor of Women's History Month, meet author Marissa Moss. She talks about some of the strong, inspiring women that she's written about and the research that went into telling their stories.

Women like Jackie Mitchell, who struck out Babe Ruth; Sarah Edmonds, Civil War hero, and Maggie Gee, an aviator from Berkeley, who was one of two Chinese American Women's Air Force Pilots during World War II, Find out more about the heroes and strong women in your life!

Saturday, March 19
3:30pm-4:30pm
Use duct tape, fabric, paper, and other materials that we provide to make the perfect pencil holder. Copy our samples of favorite characters, or make up your own design! Fourth floor Children's Room.

Saturday, March 26
10:15am-10:45am
Enter the world of Mother Goose Land where all your favorite characters have come to life in the form of marionettes! Introduce young readers to classic Mother Goose rhymes in this warm and heartfelt production using hand-crafted marionettes. Ages 2-5.

There is plenty to explore and discover at your Berkeley Public Library! See Library Events Calendar
 Special Staff Pick: Water! 

Water is water: a book about the water cycle
by Miranda Paul
illustrations by Jason Chin
This spare, poetic picture book follows a group of kids as they move through all the different phases of the water cycle.

From rain to fog to snow to mist, talented author Miranda Paul and  Jason Chin) combine to create a beautiful and informative journey in this innovative nonfiction picture book that will leave you thirsty for more.
Preschool-Grade 4

March is Read Aloud Month!
In This Issue
Silbert Awards 2016
THREE 2016

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
by Phillip Hoose
 
Hoose presents the true World War II story of eight Danish teens who became resistance fighters while most of the adults in their country reacted passively to the Nazi takeover. He and Knud Pedersen, the original organizer of their Churchill Club, conversed in person and via email; Hoose weaves Pedersen's own words into an adventurous narrative about these young heroes.
Grade 6 up.


Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley, illustrated by PJ Loughran

"By the time I was fifteen years old, I had been in jail nine times." So begins Lowery's highly personal account of the historic 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery. Revealing a dramatic story with diverse visual images, this heroic tale gives voice to activists participating in Civil Rights history.
Grade 5 up.

 

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes

This inspirational singer and Civil Rights activist comes to life in 22 brief, first-person, free verse poems that seamlessly incorporate Hamer's own words. This biography takes her from a sharecropping child to a community leader, and is richly illustrated with multimedia collages that perfectly evoke the emotions of each poem.
Grade 5-12.
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Special Thanks
Most free events at Central Library, South and West Branch Libraries are sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.

Events at North Branch Library are made possible by a generous gift from the Pace Trust, in support of the North Branch of the Berkeley Public Library.