best books

Profiles Lee Falk, Terry Goodkind, Hal Roach, Connie Willis, and twenty-one other authors, comic artists, filmmakers, and artists of interest to middle and high school students, providing biographical, bibliographic, and critical information on each.

Profiles Chester Brown, Jim Davis, Tina Fey, John Knowles, and twenty-one other authors, comic artists, filmmakers, and artists of interest to middle and high school students, providing biographical, bibliographic, and critical information on each.

Lists and discusses one hundren and one must-read books for kids.

Lists and discusses one hundred and one must-read books for kids.

Profiles more than twenty authors, illustrators, artists, photographers, and filmmakers of interest to middle and high school students, such as Miguel de Cervantes, Kate Greenaway, and Dave Eggers, providing biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on each.

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.

Provides annotated bibliographies.

A guide to children's books for all ages, from picture books to young adult novels, arranged in categories.

"[A] comprehensive best-book guide for wordless (and nearly wordless) picture books"--Dust jacket.

The start of the twenty-first century has been a new golden age of young adult literature. In their literary quality, their variety, and their innovative nature, these books are not only the best of a splendid new millennium, they are-- compared with other decades-- the best of the best.