children's literature, american

A guide for parents, teachers, and librarians on the beat books for encouraging children to read.

Contains twenty-one educational activities that use the Internet to teach children in grades four through eight about Newbery Award-winning books.

Provides annotations of all the Newbery and Caldecott award books, cited for excellence in children's literature and illustration from 1922 to 1998.

"[This book theorizes] children's nonfiction as nonfictionfrom a literary perspective. [It also] explains how the genre speaks in unique ways to its young readers and how it invites them to the project of understanding. At the same time, it . . . lays out a series of techniques for analysis, which it then applies and nuances through extensive close readings and case studies of books published"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a narrative history and development of African-American children's literature from its origin to the present.

Presents a comprehensive bibliography of juvenile and young adult literature of the Great Depression era of the 1930s and includes both fiction and nonfiction, biographies, oral histories, memoirs, and photographs, and music.

Presents a subject index to the more than six hundred books that have been awarded either the Newbery Medal for writing excellence or the Caldecott Medal for quality of illustrations, arranged alphabetically by subject heading, each with author, title, and date of award; and includes author/illustrator and title indexes.

Provides annotations of all the Newbery and Caldecott award books, cited for excellence in children's literature and illustration from 1922 to 2000.