Thursday, November 14, 1:00 pm EST Level Up Your Beanstack Skills
Ready to level up your Beanstack skills? Join us to learn tips and tricks for reports, tickets, drawings and more! Plus we'll explore a few of Beanstack staff's favorite "secret" features to help spark ideas for using your Beanstack site to its fullest potential.
Learn how to use paper and digital logging together to create reading challenges that work for your entire community as well as get tips and tricks on marketing your reading challenges with Beanstack.
The 2025 Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) Manual is available to libraries, and the access code has been sent to each library director. If you have not received the code, please ask your director or send me an email susan.laparo@lva.virginia.gov.
Ordering of CSLP materials will begin next week. Look for an email with the ordering instructions.
Grants and Opportunities
Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award (November 15) Calling all children’s librarians who have never attended the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference! This is your chance to get a $1200 stipend to help with your travel and fees to the upcoming conference June 26-30, 2025 in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This award is made possible by an annual gift from Penguin Young Readers Group and Random House Children’s Books. More information and the application form can be found here.
Children's Book Week (November 4-10)
Children’s Book Week is a national week-long event that celebrates books for young readers. 2024 is the 105th anniversary of this beloved program, and this year’s event slogan is No Rules. Just Read.
Celebrate with free downloadable resources such as coloring pages, bookmarks, activities, social media posts, and more found here.
Book News
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The honorees are:
Violet Duncan, Buffalo Dreamer.Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House
Josh Galarza, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky. Henry Holt and Company (BYR)/Macmillan Publishers
