children's libraries

A teacher's guide to teaching children under the age of five by using storytime.

A handbook for storytime programs that covers such topics as pictures and objects in storytelling, puppetry, and creative drama.

A teacher's guide to understanding the benefits of library based after-school clubs.

Enhance your historical fiction collection - and its popularity with readers and value in the classroom - with this wide-ranging guide. After discussion of various aspects of the genre (its importance, history, criteria for evaluation, and methods of presentation), the author takes an in-depth look at 80 of the best historical fiction novels published for this age group in the last 10 to 15 years. For each title there is a brief introduction discussing setting, historical background, and point of view; a list of characters; a detailed plot summary; and ways to introduce the book to students, including important passages for reading or retelling. This versatile tool, written by a recognized expert in children's literature, can be used for readers' advisory, curricular support, title selection, and collection development.

A guide to storytelling with retellings of traditional folktales and suggestions for other tales to tell.

Presents guidance and tools for getting children ages five to twelve involved in poetry.

Provides a generous sampling of art and craft ideas, songs, and action rhymes, designed to help veteran librarians refresh and enliven ongoing programs, while providing novice storytime planners what they need to get started.

Provides educators and librarians with information, tips, and strategies for planning reading motivation programs.

A collection of storytime outlines that focus on fourteen countries and cultural groups around the world, each with an opening song, suggested book titles, a flannel board or puppet story with patterns and instructions, fingerplays, actions rhymes, games, an annotated listing of videos and filmstrips, and crafts.

Presents a selection of picture books, nursery rhymes, fingerplays, songs, games, and simple craft ideas to use for preschool storytimes, arranged alphabetically by theme, and including recommended resources, a bibliography, and a first-line index.