children's literature, english

Profiles the lives and innovative work of the following popular authors: A. A. Milne, C. S. Lewis, E. B. White, Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Maurice Sendak, and Judy Blume.

A collection of essays on great children's literature that relates the lives of the authors to the works themselves.

A collection of poems interspersed with stories about fairies, elves, gnomes, and other magical creatures.

A collection of stories, poems, holiday tales, humor, fantasies, and retellings of best-loved classics, with one for each day of the year.

Provides bibliographical information about more than 750 books for children ages three to fourteen.

A guide to nearly 23,000 children's picture book titles grouped in over 1,200 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.

Seventeen essays examine the genre of children's literature, covering the genre's definition, its growth, its common themes, and controversy in the genre; also includes a chronology and a bibliography.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide descriptions of topics of interest to elementary-age children, each with the Dewey numbers specific to that topic; search terms to use when researching the topic; a selection of nonfiction, reference, and fiction books; a list of Web sites; and a list of multimedia materials.

Includes over four hundred entries, providing annotations for fiction and nonfiction multicultural resources which are ideal for use in preschool through sixth grade classrooms. Arranged by theme, including identity, family, friends, traditions, and more.