children's literature, american

Presents brief profiles of more than 150 books for children and young adults by Native Americans, and also lists anthologies, resources on Native Americans, and Web sites of Native American storytellers.

Includes over four hundred entries, providing annotations for fiction and nonfiction multicultural resources which are ideal for use in preschool through sixth grade classrooms. Arranged by theme, including identity, family, friends, traditions, and more.

Offers strategies for librarians, teachers, and parents to help develop literacy in boys, and focuses on the particular genres that interest them such as adventure, science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries.

Teaches social studies using children's literature, and includes suggested activities and projects.

Presents ways to use wordless picture books in a variety of programs for grades K-6.

Poems, prose, photographs, and paintings explore the African-American experience as seen through art and literature by blacks or about black subjects.

Contains a collection of short stories, drawings, poems, and memoirs from well-known writers of "guy" fiction, written by boys, for boys. Includes pieces by Daniel Pinkwater, Neil Gaiman, Will Hobbs, Stephen King, Gary Paulsen, among other.

A collection of stories, songs, poems, and illustrations by celebrities which deal with such themes as family, friendship, love, thankfulness, and generosity as well as their opposites.

A collection of stories and poems about coming of age written by African-American authors.

Collects more than two hundred works of children's literature spanning the seventeenth through the twentieth century, including alphabets, primers and readers, fairy tales, animal fables, classical myths, legends, picture books, comics, plays, books of instruction, life writing, domestic fiction, verse, and Judeo-Christian, fantasy, science fiction, adventure, and school stories; and provides genre, author, and piece introductions.