100 Best Books for Children: A Parent's Guide to Making the Right Choices for Your Young Reader, Toddler to Preteen
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By selecting only 100 "best books" Silvey distinguishes her guide from all the others and makes it possible to give young readers their literary heritage in the childhood years....
Houghton Mifflin Company
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500 Great Books for Teens
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"500 Great Books for Teens" is divided into 21 sections, including adventure and survival, horror, graphic novels, humor, mystery, and poetry, each with additional reading lists....
Houghton Mifflin Company
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Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literature
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A love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them explore other worlds, and opens their minds ...
Crossway Books
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C.S. Lewis & Narnia for Dummies
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Explains Lewis's arguments on God, absolutes, and pain The fun and easy way to explore C.S. Lewis's life, works, and the world of Narnia Curious about C.S. Lewis and "The C...
For Dummies
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Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
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Charting the makings of the Western literary imagination, Lerer explores the iconic books--from ancient to contemporary--that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young rea...
University of Chicago Press
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Classic American Children's Illustrators: 30 Postcards
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Children's picture books are a wonderful record of a culture's best hopes and finest imaginings. Here we present fifteen illustrators, each represented by two images. Among those w...
Darling & Company
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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Haw
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A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their child...
Three Rivers Press (CA)
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Exploring Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: An Unauthorized Adventure Through the Golden Compass, the Subtle Knife, and the Amber Spyglass
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"His Dark Materials" is one of the most popular, award-winning fantasies of all time, a bestselling trilogy hailed as "a modern classic" by "The New York Times."
Now, for the f...
St. Martin's Griffin
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Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature
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In this engaging and reflective essay, Jerry Griswold examines the unique qualities of childhood experience and their reappearance as frequent themes in children's literature. Surv...
Johns Hopkins University Press
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From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Book
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A librarian and authoritative reviewer provides practical guidelines to help other librarians, parents, teachers, children's literature students and general readers evaluate the st...
HarperTrophy
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Great Books for Boys
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Kathleen Odean, member of the Caldecott and Newbery Award Committees, has compiled and annotated a unique collection of more than six hundred books - picture books, novels, mysteri...
Ballantine Books
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Grownups' Guide to Children's Literature
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This guide and companion includes the most recent award-winning authors and illustrators, the awards they have won, and new awards established in the last few years. This volume al...
Continuum International Publishing Group
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Healing Stories: Picture Books for the Big & Small Changes in a Child's Life
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With over 500 hand-picked titles, Healing Stories recommends carefully selected books essential for any adult looking to help children cope with their growing pains through reading...
M. Evans and Company
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Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose
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Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide a...
Huntington Library Press
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Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
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Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture....
Houghton Mifflin Company
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