Welcome to today ’ s Infopeople Webinar!

1. Welcome to today’s Infopeople Webinar! Infopeople is dedicated to bringing you the best in practical library training and improving information access for the public by improving the skills of library workers. Infopeople, a grant project of the Califa Group, is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act administered in California by the State Librarian. This material is covered by Creative Commons 4.0 Non-commercial Share Alike license. Any use of this material should credit the funding source.

2. What’s New in Children’s Literature 2017 Thursday, March 23, 2017 Presented by: Penny Peck Pikly@aol.Com

3. Agenda • New Board, Picture Books, and Easy Readers • New Transitional Fiction, Poetry, and Graphic Novels • Nonfiction and Common Core • Tween Genre Fiction and popular series • Multicultural books • Nonfiction and Fiction pairings, Summer reading • Useful Websites

4. Two Handouts • Books covered in the webinar – use the list to follow along • Websites listing children’s books, including new books, awards, graphic novels, Common Core-related nonfiction, multicultural books, and read-alikes

5. New Board Books

6. New Interactive Book

7. New Picture Books

8. New Picture Books

9. New Easy Readers

10. More New Easy Readers

11. In Our Next Section New transitional chapter books New graphic novels New poetry New nonfiction

12. Transitional Fiction - Definition • Easy Chapter Books • Bridge or Moving Up Books • 2nd and 3rd grades • Series fiction • Sometimes with ink drawings once or twice in each chapter

13. Easy Transitional Chapter Books

14. New Transitional Fiction

15. More New Transitional Fiction

16. New Poetry for Children

17. New Graphic Novels for Kids

18. More New Graphic Novels

19. New Nonfiction

20. More New Nonfiction

21. Common Core

22. Any new favorites I missed you would like to mention?

23. Tween Genre Fiction • Genres include: • Fantasy • Historical Fiction • Sports novel • Humorous novel • Science Fiction • Mystery • Adventure • For grades 4 – 8 • Ages 9-12 • Independent, confident readers

24. Fantasy

25. Historical Fiction

26. Humor

27. Adventure

28. Mystery

29. Realistic/Contemporary

30. Science Fiction and Sports

31. New Entries in Popular Series

32. More New Popular Series

33. Any new favorites I missed?

34. Multicultural Books for Younger Children

35. Multicultural Books for Older Children

36. More Multicultural Novels

37. Multicultural Nonfiction

38. Nonfiction and Fiction Pairings

39. More Pairings

40. More Pairings

41. Olinguito

42. Foxes

43. 2017 Summer Reading Program

44. More Summer Titles

45. Finding What’s New for Children • No Flying, No Tights website for graphic novels • Best-seller’s lists: Publishers’ Weekly • ALA/ALSC Book Awards (Newbery, etc.) • Free webinars from Infopeople, and from Booklist magazine

46. Finding Read-Alikes • “What book did you read recently that you liked?” – then find something similar • A book in the same genre • A book by that author or from that series • Try the websites on handout for Read-alikes sites, including www.bayviews.org • Children’s series books: www.mymcpl.org/books-movies-music/juvenile-series

47. Time for questions?

48. Thank You! Penny Peck Pikly@aol.com