EN 3315 A: Children's Literature

This guide is organized by age group--from board books to YA novels and all the gradations in between. Each entry features evaluations by a team of international critics complete with beautifully reproduced artwork from the featured title. The beloved classics are here, but the guide also takes a global perspective and includes the increasingly diverse contributions from African American and Latino authors and illustrators--not to mention important books from around the world.

This new edition of this classic guide to children's books includes more than 25,000 in-print titles recommended for children in grades PreK-6. The thematic organization, concise annotations, and complete bibliographic data plus review citations make this volume equally useful for reader's advisory, research, and collection development. Books in series and award winners are noted.

Covering over 14,000 titles published mainly from late 1999 through 2003, most of which have been recommended in at least two sources, this thematic work offers a state-of-the-art reading guide and selection tool for young teen fiction and nonfiction reading material. The entries provide annotations with lively but succinct plot summaries, along with indications of ISBN, book length, price, reading level, and review citations. Award-winning and series titles are also noted. Grades 6-9.

This reference work lists nearly 2000 children's books. Each entry is cross-referenced with several other titles similar in style or theme. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author name and include: title, publisher and publication date, series name and number, name and description of characters, time and geographic setting, review citations, a brief plot summary, the age range for the book's audience, other titles by the author and an annotated list of similar books by other authors.