children's libraries

Presents tips, techniques, and strategies that teach early childhood literacy development, recommends best books, and features rhymes and songs.

Provides an introduction to participation stories for teachers, librarians, and other storytellers, discusses types of audience participation, describes audience management skills, features twenty-five adapted stories from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, Norway, Spain, and West Africa appropriate for children from kindergarten through sixth grade, each with a list of tell-along techniques, and includes warm-up and settle-down activities.

Contains forty original programs designed to help students improve their reading skills; includes full descriptions of each program, its appropriate age level, program length, audience limit, preparation instructions, and patterns and instructions for related crafts.

Provides information about authors and illustrators of picture books and their books to enable teachers or librarians to utilize when planning activities.

Presents fifteen lesson plans designed to help preschool and primary school teachers plan fun, educational story programs for their classrooms.

Offers teachers practical advice on how they can entice reluctant readers, with tips for finding interesting reading materials, helping students relate to stories, and introducing them to different genres.

Demonstrates techniques for preparing a booktalk, speaking informally, and choosing the right excerpt to read aloud.