From Oprah Kids to Youth Sports

Carol Sibley, Library, has recently worked with a committee of the American Library Association to develop two new bibliographies of children’s books. Oprah Kids’ Reading List will be posted on Oprah’s website and includes recommended books for toddlers through tweens. The sports booklist, developed for Up2Us, a national coalition of Sports-Based Youth Development organizations, lists recommended children’s books by sport. Click headline to see both reading lists.

Best Read Aloud book bibliography online

“Best Read Aloud Picture Books,” is a new online bibliography available from the Curriculum Materials Center at MSUM’s Livingston Lord Library. The bibliography provides lists of picture books, published between 2004 and 2008, that are highly recommended for reading aloud to children. The bibliography is divided by age levels: toddlers-age 5; ages 6-8, and ages 9-12. Click headline for more information and link to the bibliography.