Presents student-written reviews of 28 children's books. (RS)

Presents brief annotations of 28 highly recommended children's picture books. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 19 children's picture books and 9 chapter books considered by the authors to be too wonderful to miss. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 14 children's books that take readers beyond their own boundaries to explore other times and other places. (SR)

Reviews 21 new books and provides a list of previously published books that teachers will find helpful in introducing young children (between 4 and 8 years old) to earlier eras. (PRA)

Provides annotations of 35 easy-to-read picture books, informational books, easy-to-read chapter books, and poetry collections that serve as bridges from one type of reading to another. (RS)

Offers annotations of 26 illustrated books and chapter books for children and adolescents that the writers of this column consider too good to miss. (SR)

Offers brief annotations of 23 children's books in which characters read, talk about their reading, or in which the act of reading is important to the story line. (SR)

Provides brief descriptions of 27 picture books and chapter books for children, from many genres, which all feature characters on journeys, often momentous ones. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 25 children's books that focus on heroes and heroines: ancient, traditional, and modern; real-life and fictional; and prominent and not prominent. (SR)

Provides brief descriptions of 27 children's books that teachers may use in approaching literary study and organizing literature units. Groups the books around literary elements, structures, devices, and genres. (SR)

Highlights 27 books that invite children to write. Organizes them into four types: the predictable story, stories that reflect significant childhood experiences, stories with novel structure or content, and open-ended stories. (SR)

Presents annotations of 26 humorous children's picture books and chapter books. (RS)

Offers brief descriptions of 24 informational books for children which educate, entertain, and explore the world from a number of different perspectives. Groups books into three broad categories: the natural world around us; people and their endeavors; and other times/other places. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 26 picture books and chapter books especially liked by this column's editors but which have not fit into any of this year's earlier columns. (RS)