Books On Display

Our library staff members are always carefully updating the items available at the Altadena Libraries to highlight the variety of all the amazing titles in our collection that you can enjoy!

Celebrate Pride Month!

How we fight for our lives
Juliet takes a breath
Our subway baby
Who was Harvey Milk?
Be Amazing: A History of Pride
Dirty River
Beyond the gender binary
A quick & easy guide to they/them pronouns
Too bright to see
My Rainbow
Work!
Detransition, baby
Queer Heroes
Zenobia July
Last night at the Telegraph club
Super late bloomer
Giovanni

Celebrate Women Artists Throughout History!

In honor of Women’s History Month, we shine a spotlight on women artists, present and past, that made history and continue to shape the world with their bold choices and resilience in the arts.

13 Women Artists Children Should Know
Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman
Discovering women artists for children
Farewell to the muse
Georgia O
Heroic women of the art world
I know what I am
Just kids
Kusama
Maya Lin
Mid-century modern women in the visual arts
Ninth Street Women
The Equivalents
The short story of women artists
Women artists a to z
Women design
Women in art

March 14 = Pi Day (3.14…)

Throw back to our grade school math classes! According to Piday.org, Pi (Greek letter “?”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and to eat pie. Enjoy this list of pi(e)-related titles in honor of this special day!

Adventures in Raspberry Pi
Art of the Pie
Blackberry pie murder
How to bake Pi
Live and let pie
Perfect pies & more
Pies and tarts
Raspberry Pie user guide
Sister pie
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Magic of Math
The mathematics lover
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie

Sing With Your Child Month

Singing while reading with your young readers is a great way to practice sounding out words in new ways… and it’s just plain fun!

Head, shoulders, knees, and toes... / illustrated by Annie Kubler.
Hush, little baby / adapted and illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
If you
Little chickies = Los pollitos / Susie Jaramillo.
Little elephants = Los elefantitos / Susie Jaramillo.
Old Mikamba had a farm / Rachel Isadora.
One love / adapted by Cedella Marley ; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
Over in the jungle : a rainforest rhyme / by Marianne Berkes ; illustrated by Jeanette Canyon.
Pete the Cat : I love my white shoes / story by Eric Litwin (aka Mr. Eric) ; art by James Dean.
Pete the cat and the itsy bitsy spider / by James Dean.
Singing -- Cantando de colores : a bilingual book of harmony / translated by Patty Rodriguez & Ariana Stein ; art by Citlali Reyes.
Singing in the rain / based on the song by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown ; pictures by Tim Hopgood.
The wheels on the bus / illustrated by Yu-hsuan Huang.
The wheels on the tuk tuk / Kabir Sehgal & Surishtha Sehgal ; illustrated by Jess Golden.
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