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Provides strategies for teachers and librarians on using picture books to teach literary devices to kindergarten through twelfth grade students; providing a summary of forty books, describing the devices they reinforce, and including curriculum tie-ins for each selection.

Provides short summaries of 100 hihg-rated children's books selected by Judy Freeman for 2008 and outlines short reading, writing, and illustrating activities for each title. Discusses how to fit each book into normal classroom curriculum and offers lists of related titles for further reading.

References over 900 picture books for three-to-eight-year-olds which can teach them about other countries.

Presents a comprehensive listing of the Newberry and Caldecott award winners from 1922 to 2005 along with listings to medal and honor books.

Contains an annotated listing of eight hundred book series for children in kindergarten through eighth grade, each identifying the author, publisher, grade level, and genre, and including a description of the characters, plots, and themes, as well as a list of titles in the series.

Provides library staff, teachers, parents, and students of children's literature with information on literature for youth including the history and impact of the literature, reference resources, organizations devoted to the literature, and a list of Internet websites and listservs.

Presents lists of more than 1,200 children's books that have earned well-known prizes such as the Caldecott and Newbery medals, international awards, and others saluting specific areas of achievement.

Presents a comprehensive fiction resource guide for middle and high school readers covering over eight hundred series along with annotations, character lists, grade levels, genre, and more.

Contains a series of alphabetically arranged essays that describe one hundred books that have been banned because of language, racial characterization, or depiction of other social differences that their challengers have viewed as harmful to readers.