Children's and young adult literature reference series

Enhance your historical fiction collection - and its popularity with readers and value in the classroom - with this wide-ranging guide. After discussion of various aspects of the genre (its importance, history, criteria for evaluation, and methods of presentation), the author takes an in-depth look at 80 of the best historical fiction novels published for this age group in the last 10 to 15 years. For each title there is a brief introduction discussing setting, historical background, and point of view; a list of characters; a detailed plot summary; and ways to introduce the book to students, including important passages for reading or retelling. This versatile tool, written by a recognized expert in children's literature, can be used for readers' advisory, curricular support, title selection, and collection development.

A selection guide to help librarians, teachers, and patrons identify the best of the many books published each year for readers in middle school and junior high.

Presents a comprehensive research and reference guide on over one thousand publications, and contains a wide variety of information on children's and young adult literature, authors, and illustrators.

A comprehensive guide to over three hundred classic folk and fairy tales retold in picture books for children, with annotations discussing settings, themes, and comparisons with the original.

Presents a comprehensive fiction resource guide for middle and high school readers covering over eight hundred series along with annotations, character lists, grade levels, genre, and more.

Presents a guide to over seventy-five fantasy novels and anthologies, and provides reading levels, brief annotations, review citations, and related titles by the same author.

A guide to 13,755 children's picture books, including both fiction and nonfiction titles, grouped in 1,215 subjects, with title and illustrator indexes.

Presents an annotated bibliography of over 2,000 suggested book titles for children ages kindergarten through grade six, including picture books, fiction, poetry, and folklore, providing advice on reading aloud, storytelling, classroom and library activities, and more.