Popular Picks for Young Readers

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Diane Foote, Association for Library Service to Child, Diane Foote, ALSC

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Featuring contributions by active librarians from around the country, this guide offers a goldmine of quality books for children, spotlighting more than 500 titles published within the last four years. Ranging from books for new-borns through readers to age 14, the selected books encompass a wide variety of formats and themes to reflect the diversity of contemporary society. Popular Picks for Young Readers is equally useful for readers' advisory and collection development, and includesHigh-quality, well-reviewed books that are popular with kidsOnly original titles, eliminating derivative works such as those based on a movie or licensed charactersPicture books, graphic novels, poetry, informational books, fiction, and moreThorough annotations, with summary, author, and publication informationMultiple indexes for easy searching by title, author, type of book, genre, award-winners, and subject matterWith selections geared towards every child's interest and reading level, this guide will help librarians, teachers, caregivers and others connect young readers to books they're sure to love.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-03-13
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagAmerican Library Association
ISBN9780838936054

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Diane Foote is assistant dean at Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science in River Forest, Illinois, and is currently serving as fiscal officer and a member of the board of directors for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). She was a member of the 2010 John Newbery Award Selection Committee and the 2011 and 2012 Coretta Scott King Book Award Juries, and co-chaired the ALSC Preconference Planning Committee for the 2013 event that celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Caldecott Medal. She is a former executive director of ALSC and a former associate editor of Book Links magazine.For more than eight decades, librarians from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) have intensely scrutinized the children's books published each year, selecting the winning and honour books for the Newbery and Caldecott Awards. In addition, the ALSC division of the ALA is committed to creating a nation of readers, starting with the youngest. ALSC supports all those providing library services to children, including youth librarians, teachers, families, literature experts, publishers, and child advocates.