children's literature

" ... bring(s) together fourteen educators who use global children's literature to help students explore their own cultural identities. The book lays out why this kind of global curriculum is important and how to make space for it within district and state mandates. Built around a curriculum framework ... , the ideas and strategies in Teaching Globally will help teachers integrate a global focus into existing literacy and social studies curricula, evaluate global resources, guide students as they investigate cross-cultural issues, and create classroom activities with an intercultural perspective"--Amazon.com.

Explores the benefits adults can get out of rereading beloved American children's book classics, from fairy tales to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," exploring the backstories of each children's book writer and offering insights to how they created their stories and characters.

A comprehensive reference guide for children's writers that features interviews with published authors, illustrators, and industry insiders and essays which offer tips on how to break into the market and get a children's book or story published, as well as more than 500 listings of book publishers, magazines, agents, and other resources.

Presents selections from the writings of English author Roald Dahl, with 75 stories, rhymes, memoirs, letters, and poems arranged by theme.

Presents profiles of approximately forty authors and illustrators of books for young readers, most from the twentieth century, each with a photograph, reproductions of book covers, quotations, interesting facts, and suggested resources for further study. Arranged alphabetically from Joanna Cole to Jack Gantos.

Presents profiles of approximately forty authors and illustrators of books for young readers, most from the twentieth century, each with a photograph, reproductions of book covers, quotations, interesting facts, and suggested resources for further study. Arranged alphabetically from Barbara Park to Peter Sis.

Presents profiles of thirty-seven authors and illustrators of books for young readers, most from the twentieth century, each with a photograph, reproductions of book covers, quotations, interesting facts, and suggested resources for further study. Arranged alphabetically from Ursula Le Guin to Helen Oxenbury.

Presents profiles of thirty-seven authors and illustrators of books for young readers, most from the twentieth century, each with a photograph, reproductions of book covers, quotations, interesting facts, and suggested resources for further study. Arranged alphabetically from Carmen Lomas Garza to Edward Lear.