bibliography

Presents booktalks designed to help teachers increase their middle grade students' interest in reading nonfiction books that are arranged thematically in seven categories, including American journeys, people to know, animals, science, playing with words, and monsters.

Discusses the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese comic and animation industries by looking at the different genres.

A genre guide to graphic novel reading interests that is designed to help librarians and teachers choose titles appropriate for children and tweens.

Profiles five hundred fiction and nonfiction books that will be interesting and motivating for boys, with entries organized by genre providing information on each book's plot, reading level, and author.

Presents descriptions of Japanese life in America before World War II, the evacuation, internment life, and legal challenges to the government's actions; primary documents; biographies of significant figures; a photographic essay; a chronology; and an annotated bibliography.

Provides annotations of all the Newbery and Caldecott award books, cited for excellence in children's literature and illustration from 1922 to 2001.

Presents annotated lists of fantasy titles, grouped by subgenre, with interest levels, and award indicators; and includes a discussion of fantasy, providing a historical overview and working definition of the genre.

Ninety story stretching ideas and activities books for children.

Contains 450 tips on ways to expand the impact of and interest in ninety popular children's picture books.

Provides lists of books by contemporary authors and illustrators, published since 1988, which are suitable for reading aloud to children.