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The Bluebonnet Award List is a huge deal here in Texas! I love checking each year to see what made the list. Many school libraries build curriculum around the Bluebonnet Award List and set up Bluebonnet specific displays. While this is a Texas specific resource the website also offers some great links to continued education and training.

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Students from central Texas announced the Texas Library Association's (TLA) 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award (TBA) Master List at the Texas Book Festival on Saturday, October 26. The Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List is one of the most prestigious children's literature lists in the country.

Students, parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and authors eagerly await the yearly release. "Since the first Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List was created, the excitement about this children's choice award has grown beyond the borders of Texas," said Jacqui Bridges-Sheppherd, TBA coordinator. "Our primary goals are to introduce children to a variety of quality books, develop critical reading skills, and honor and encourage imaginative authors. The committee considers more than 500 books in order to select five outstanding books of various genres for grades 3, 4, 5, and 6."
2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List

A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney ( Neal Porter Books / Holiday House Publishing, Inc., 2019)

A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry (Greenwillow, an imprint of HarperCollinsP ublishing, 2019)

Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen by Niki Lenz (Random House Publishing, 2019)

Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019)

Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo (Aladdin Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Books, 2018)

Frankie Sparks & the Class Pet by Megan Frazer Blakemore, illustrated by Nadja Sarell (Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Books, 2019)

From an Idea to Disney: How Imagination Built a World of Magic by Lowey Bundy Sichol, illustrated by C.S. Jennings (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2019)

Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers by Margaret Petersen Haddix (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing, 2019)

If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2019)

New Kid by Jerry Craft (Harper an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing, 2019)

Nightbooks by J.A. White (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing, 2018)

No More Poems! A Book in Verse That Just Gets Worse by Rhett Miller, illustrated by Dan Santat (Little Brown and Company, 2019)

Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How MONOPOLY Was Invented by Tanya Lee Stone, illustrated by Steven Salerno (Christy Ottaviano Books / Henry Holt, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, 2018)

Rocket to the Moon (Big Ideas That Changed the World)by Don Brown (Amulet, an imprint of Abrams Books, 2019)

Stay by Bobbie Pyron (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing, 2019)

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monsterby Jonathan Auxier (Amulet, an imprint of Abrams Books, 2018)

The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman (Nancy Paulsen, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2019)

The Rhino in the Right Field by Stacy Dekeyser (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Books, 2018)

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles (Cinco Puntos Press, 2018)

What Do You Do With a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan by Chris Barton, illustrated by Ekua Holmes (Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Books, 2018)

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Announcing the 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award List - Texas Library Association

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Students from central Texas announced the Texas Library Association's (TLA) 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award (TBA) Master List at the Texas Book Festival on Saturday, October 26. The Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List is one of the most prestigious children's literature lists in the country. Students, parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and authors eagerly await the yearly release.

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Coding Curriculum for Libraries - Dorothy N.

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Coding Curriculum for Libraries - Dorothy N.

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https://simplycoding.org/coding-for-kids-public-libraries/

This resource is specially designed to help public libraries and community centers teach coding skills.

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Coding courses for kids at libraries with no staff training required or software to download to help kids learn to code from library computers

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Public Libraries

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This is Common Sense Media which is a site that reviews books, movies and more. It places age recommendations and information for parents so they can feel safe with what their kids are reading and watching. We use this all the time in the children's room.

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Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families

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Common Sense Media is the leading source of entertainment and technology recommendations for families. Parents trust our expert reviews and objective advice.

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Professional Development and Continuing Education: Library Education & Training

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Professional Development and Continuing Education: Library Education & Training

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I found this libguide through CT State Library that offers a lot of great resources for library education & training (online training classes & upcoming training events!)

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LibGuides Home: Professional Development and Continuing Education: Library Education & Training

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LibGuides Home: Professional Development and Continuing Education: Library Education & Training

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This NC State library site has a calendar for all their continuing education programs, most of which are grant funded and open to all library staff in the state.

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This program is supported by grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (IMLS grant number LS-249980-OLS-21) .

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This program is supported by grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (IMLS grant number LS-249980-OLS-21) .

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This is a link to the ALA online learning page. It's full of information about how to continue learning and expanding your knowledge. It's not just youth services. It's a little bit about everything related to the library.

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Although it hasn't been updated in a bit, I think this review blog comes from an interesting point of view. It reviews youth literature by authenticity of characters to people with that disability, not just that there is representation. I think reviews like this help elevate collections from superficial representation.

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Disability in Kidlit - Reviews, articles, and more about the portrayal of disabilities in children's fiction

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Despite some reservations, our reviewer would recommend this contemporary novel about young Bat - and the reviewer's ten-year-old goddaughter agrees.

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This does exactly what it says: tells you "what's next!" Super helpful resource for figuring out the order of series! - Kacee

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A series is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits. e.g. Sue Grafton's "A is for Alibi", "B is for..." etc. or the "Star Wars" series The What's Next ®: Books in Series database was developed and is maintained by the Kent District Library.

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Good Comics for Kids (please feel free to ignore the thumbnail 😅)

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Good Comics for Kids (please feel free to ignore the thumbnail 😅)

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This blog from the School Library Journal is a regularly updated blog about all sorts of new comics for children, mostly from mainstream publishers. This is a great resource for seeing what's new & upcoming in comics & graphic novels for kids!

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Good Comics for Kids - A School Library Journal Blog

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This is a link to the Public Librarian Association. I felt it offered a lot of great tools in general for all of us to use.

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This is a link to the Public Librarian Association. I felt it offered a lot of great tools in general for all of us to use.

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Resources for the birth to young adult populations including: early literacy, programming, award winners, summer reading, and more. Awards In this section you will find resources for some of the awards given to children’s and young adult literature. View resources » Children, Teens & Families This s…

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Lee and Low Books gives you a breakdown on diversity in publishing and Children's book statistics.

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Lee and Low Books gives you a breakdown on diversity in publishing and Children's book statistics.

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About Us

Lee & Low Books is the largest multicultural children's book publisher in the country. We are also one of the few minority-owned publishing companies in the United States.

Founded in 1991, we have always been family-owned and independent, which means we publish what we want and aren't afraid to take risks. Our books have won major awards including the Coretta Scott King Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the NAACP Image Award, and many more.

Lee & Low Books is committed to publishing diverse books that are about everyone, for everyone. We are dedicated to cultural authenticity, and we make a special effort to work with new authors and illustrators of color.

We publish multicultural children's books for every age, including leveled books for beginning readers, picture books, early chapter books, middle grade, and young adult books. We also publish a wide selection of bilingual and Spanish language books.

Visit our testimonials page to see some of the people and organizations who support our work!

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Lee & Low Books is the largest multicultural children's book publisher in the United States. We are your diversity source.

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Great resource for programming ideas

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A website of the American Library Association Public Programs Office