Brenna Friesner is children’s services librarian for the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Ohio.

A valuable tool for extending readers’ experiences, Friesner’s guide introduces a succinct, lyrical genre that employs the power of poetry…. [T]he handbook encompasses an array of choices, settings, and characters…. By citing appealing works…she provides librarians and educators with titles to awaken readers to a fictional subgenre certain to intrigue the adventuresome. A chapter on poetry in the curriculum informs teachers, librarians, and homeschooling parents of booklists augmented beyond the standard canon. Meticulously outlined and indexed, this work belongs on the professional shelves of school and public libraries and in the curriculum advisories of education courses.

Brenna Friesner is children’s services librarian for the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Ohio.

A valuable tool for extending readers’ experiences, Friesner’s guide introduces a succinct, lyrical genre that employs the power of poetry…. [T]he handbook encompasses an array of choices, settings, and characters…. By citing appealing works…she provides librarians and educators with titles to awaken readers to a fictional subgenre certain to intrigue the adventuresome. A chapter on poetry in the curriculum informs teachers, librarians, and homeschooling parents of booklists augmented beyond the standard canon. Meticulously outlined and indexed, this work belongs on the professional shelves of school and public libraries and in the curriculum advisories of education courses.

Brenna Friesner is children’s services librarian for the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Ohio.

A valuable tool for extending readers’ experiences, Friesner’s guide introduces a succinct, lyrical genre that employs the power of poetry…. [T]he handbook encompasses an array of choices, settings, and characters…. By citing appealing works…she provides librarians and educators with titles to awaken readers to a fictional subgenre certain to intrigue the adventuresome. A chapter on poetry in the curriculum informs teachers, librarians, and homeschooling parents of booklists augmented beyond the standard canon. Meticulously outlined and indexed, this work belongs on the professional shelves of school and public libraries and in the curriculum advisories of education courses.