children's literature

"Twelve-year-old Charlie and his friends must stop nightmares from taking over their town before it's too late"--.

Presents teaching strategies and guidance to help educators incorporate high-quality literature into their classroom schedules, focusing on building a love of reading that will remain with students their entire lives.

Provides an overview of twenty-seven author's craft elements, such as alliteration, descriptive language, simile, and wordplay, each with lists of exemplary texts; includes study lessons; and contains an annotated bibliography of mentor texts.

Discusses how factors such as growing up as one of six brothers, a Catholic education, comic books, summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner all contributed toward making the author a comic writer.

Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a field trip to the ocean. When they explore the ocean food chain they discover the connection between Keesha's tuna fish sandwich and Arnold's soggy shoe covered in pond scum.

Presents a guide to writing children's books, including information on how to brainstorm ideas, rhyme and use humor, write a great story, proof read and edit, find an agent, and publish and promote the completed book.

Text and color photographs introduce readers to author Judy Blume.

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Shel Silverstein. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.