children's literature

Presents guidelines for evaluating quality in informational books, and features descriptions of 260 contemporary informational picture books for children from six months to fourteen years, grouped in eight categories including the natural world, numbers and arithmetic, children and families, and arts and crafts.

A guide for teachers and parents of children in grades 3 through 6 that offers suggestions for increasing children's interest in informational books about a wide variety of topics.

Offers twenty-six theme-based literature units for use in elementary classrooms--providing basic background information about each topic, providing a list of related themes, featuring suggestions for activities, and including annotated bibliographies.

Analyzes five children's books to see how they misrepresent Native peoples by constructing an image rather than a reality of Native life; looks at various picture books, adapted folktales, and novels to see how well they have retained cultural realities; features annotated reading lists; and examines the writing of Canadian Inuit author Michael Kusugak.

Provides 500 annotated descriptions of children's books, covering a range of topics and interests.

Provides headings for topics, literary and organizational forms, and names of individuals, corporate bodies, places, works, and so on, that might be needed to catalog a general collection used at least in part by children and readers or viewers interested in popular topics.

Annotated bibliography of survival theme books divided into three major categories: the individual, pairings and groupings, and views of the world.

Practical guide to inform children's librarians of current cataloging standards and practices.

Provides annotated bibliographies.