Reader’s Advisory Help Links

Stumped when a patron comes up to you with a reader’s advisory question?
Here are some great websites to help you narrow down their search.
Reader’s Advisory Online Database - read-a-likes
Novelist  – by grade/reading level
Lexiles - by grade/reading level
What Do I Read Next – navigation guide
Fiction Connection - search by tags
Overbooked - booklists
Reader’s Advisory – For Librarians
Best Seller Lists
Amazon Movers & [...]

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The Napping House – Review

I loved Audrey Wood’s picture books when I was a child. Everything from Heckedy Peg to I’m As Quick As a Cricket.
I came across another book of hers today at the library, The Napping House.

There is a house,
a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.
Everyone, including a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing [...]

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Three Little Pigs

I think stories like this are better told as a felt board story, rather than just being read straight from the book.
Although The Three Little Pigs was a fun story to tell, it was a bit clumbsy moving the pigs from one house to another. Much of the magic of flannel boards gets lost that [...]

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Excess books + book clubs at the library

I have a question for all the librarians out there. How o you incorporate multiple copies of books into book clubs? In a large system, we naturally produce numerous volumes of a single title when we buy it for multiple branches. After a while, these books are sent to the main library for one reason [...]

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Children’s books banned across america?

Have the higher powerse that be up in Capitol Hall absolutely lost their minds?
I just read this article from the San Jose Mercury news about a new federal law that takes effect February 10th to test all children’s toys, and apparently books for toxic lead and plastic. This means that libraries will have to close [...]

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LJ BestSellers – October 1st Stats

Fiction

LAST RANKING/TIMES ON LIST

1
Sail. James Patterson & Howard Roughan. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-01870-8. $27.99.
1 / 5

2
Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel. Janet Evanovich. St. Martin’s. ISBN 978-0-312-34951-6. $27.95.
2 / 4

3
Tribute. Nora Roberts. Putnam. ISBN 978-0-399-15491-1. $26.95.
5 / 3

4
Sundays at Tiffany’s. James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-01477-9. $24.99.
3 / 6

5
The Appeal. John Grisham. [...]

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The Opposite of Banning Books?

I found this article on the ALA website very interesting this morning, about a group of people trying to donate Gay-Cure books to a series of school libraries.
Only 1 of the 13 librarians actually accepted any of the books, the rest claimed it did not meet the selection criteria.

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The Literacy Site

I just want to mention this really great website where you can donate books just with a click of your mouse.
When you go to The Literacy Site webpage, sponsers donate books based on the number of hits they get. You may have heard of The Hunger Site, where a click a day feeds people in [...]

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Library card registration goes up!

New national poll shows library card registration reaches historic high
Three-quarters of library card holders visited their local libraries in past year
(CHICAGO)  As Americans deal with a slumping economy, U.S. libraries are experiencing a dramatic increase in library card registration. According to a new Harris Poll from Harris Interactive, released Sept. 22 during Library Card Sign-up [...]

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Children’s Book Review – Wow City!

As an ALA Notable Book Award recipient, this picture book by Robert Neubecker is a great way to introduce children to big city visuals. There main story is of a girl leaving her home in the mountains to visit the big city of San Francisco. In her sights she sees planes, trains, bridges, large [...]

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