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

Presents brief descriptions of 35 recently published children's books of all genres from Australia and Canada. (SR)

Offers guidelines for book selection that reflect an awareness of cultural diversity. Discusses 19 books with accurate and sensitive depictions of Asian Americans. (SR)

Discusses the importance of encouraging students to read books from and about other countries for them to see commonality instead of differences. (MG)

Announces the list of newly published books chosen by 10,000 children from 5 different regions of the United States. Provides an annotated list of 111 books in the following categories: all ages, beginning independent reading, younger readers, middle grades, and older readers. (MG)

Offers brief annotations of the 32 books (all trade books published in 1991) chosen with input from teenagers for the 1993 Young Adults' Choices list. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 100 children's books published in 1998 and voted by children as the books they liked best in the categories of beginning, young, intermediate, and advanced readers. Offers tips for parents, primary caregivers, and educators regarding book activities. (SR)

Offers brief descriptions of 20 outstanding nonfiction for children, including the 1999 Orbis Pictus Award winner, and four Orbis Pictus honor books as well as a number of other outstanding nonfiction titles dealing mainly with history and biography. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 39 children's books organized around the theme of "impressions": images, illusions (tenuous lines between fantasy and reality), close-ups (in-depth looks at a topic), landscapes (the natural world and settings tied to the land), tintypes (historical settings), and portraits. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 46 illustrated children's books on cycles: daily cycles, seasonal cycles, life cycles, generations, and cycles in text. (SR)

Offers brief annotations of 38 children's books that offer promises for a new tomorrow, reveal fantastic dreams, resound with the individual voices of characters, encourage readers' own personal voices to be heard, and portray people who followed their dreams. (SR)

Presents brief descriptions of the eight books for young adults on the 1999 Honor List annually compiled the authors. Offers descriptions of the eight books. (SR)

Details guidelines for selecting books for young children in child care settings. Describes categories of children's books, including ABC books, counting books, and wordless picture books. Provides suggestions for preparing books for use by young children, and delineates steps for planning book experiences with young children and teaching children…

This book presents an informal history of books and reading, beginning with the first clay tablets and continuing on to the latest novels. The history recounted in the book reveals the power books have always had to delight and entertain, and to enlighten, educate, and "raise possibilities." But the story of reading also contains many…

Noting that research indicating Newbery Medal books are not popular with elementary students in spite of their unquestioned superiority in plot, characterization, and style, a study examined the readability level of Newbery Medal winners from 1974 to 1986. Three readability formulas were used to assess readability: Gunning's Fog Index, Fry…