Offers brief annotations of 81 children's books connected by the theme of children finding their own voices as learners and as people. Highlights books about school and learning and books that can support readers in fluent and successful reading experiences. (SR)

Describes how to use the six standard criteria to aid teachers and parents in selecting children's activity books. Reviews a cookbook and a set of project books. (MG)

Reviews 65 children's books about ecology, moving from ecology in general to books about particular ecosystems and the animals that inhabit them. (MG)

Provides a list of 61 children's books including recently published nursery rhymes, songs, and verse games, book-length poems, themed poetry collections, collections of one author's work, and anthologies of several poets' work. Offers a bibliography of 27 new alphabet and 16 counting books. (MG)

Discusses 61 books which all create a sense of time and place and can help young readers to experience the history of the world. Offers a 23-item bibliography on biographies, a 14-item bibliography on miscellaneous books for social studies, and a 53-item bibliography on sports books. (MG)

Offers brief annotations of 34 children's books published in 1998. Organizes them around themes of stories, a child's view, crossing borders, ways of words, memories, and challenges. (SR)

Offers brief descriptions of 38 illustrated children's books that embody the notion of summer days spent traveling, discovering, inquiring, adventuring, or having fun. (SR)

Suggests guidelines for selecting African American children's literature of high literary and artistic qualities for grades K-3. Presents guidelines for all teachers, whether they have African American children in their classrooms or not. Provides a list of 27 selected recent books with an African American context that meet the same criteria for…

Investigates the nature and range of materials available through school book clubs in the United States. Finds that the clubs offered a wide range of books that extend beyond contemporary realistic fiction. (SR)

Describes how published basal reading programs can be adapted to provide guided reading instruction in K-2 classrooms where large numbers of books are not available but basal stories are accessible. Describes and presents results from a project to assign levels of difficulty to stories in five nationally published basal reading programs. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 30 trade books published in 2000 for children and adolescents chosen by teachers and librarians across the nation as outstanding books that are exceptional in curriculum use. Groups books into primary, intermediate, and advanced levels and notes suggestions for curriculum use. (SR)

Offers brief descriptions of 41 good books for children offering a treasury of memory, memoir, and stories. Presents books in the following categories: storytellers, folktales, voices, family, artifacts, and preservation. (SR)

Honors the pleasures of childhood as depicted in literature written especially for children. Presents annotations of 32 titles incorporating ideas such as: readers as investigators, characters as detectives, characters readers, fun and games, and tickling the funny bone. (SG)

Presents analyses of different aspects of various types of texts so teachers may make informed decisions when selecting trade books to enhance their science program. Provides an overview of three major categories--genre, content, and visual features--that the literature supports as important in the selection of books for science. (SG)

Presents annotations of 30 works of children's literature that support the topic of technology and its influences on readers' daily lives. Notes some stories tell about a time when simple tools enabled individuals to accomplish tasks, and others feature visionaries who used technology to create buildings, bridges, roads, and inventions. Considers…