By Anita Silvey

Summarizes the canon of contemporary children's literature in a practical guide essential for anyone choosing a book for children or working with them.

By Alberto Manguel

From Atlantis to Xanadu, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 lands invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own.

By Lewis/Mayes

Here is the most useful, candid, and convenient guide to children's literature ever published, featuring in-depth reviews, concise ratings, tips for finding the perfect book for your child, and mountains of essential hints and sound advice to help you pass along the gift of reading to the next generation.

By Esme Codell

She's been called "a brilliant educator," "articulate, brave, creative, and determined," "the kind of teacher children never forget." Now the best-selling author of Educating Esme has created an indispensable resource that will empower even the busiest parents and the most unengaged children to include literature in their lives. She proves that reading is more than a skill. It's an adventure.

By Jim Trelease

The classic handbook on reading aloud to children - revised and updated for 2007.

For more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research, The Read-Aloud Handbook offers proven techniques and strategies—and the reasoning behind them—for helping children discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.

By Dilys Evans

Not long ago, the concept of children's book illustration as Fine Art was new to many people. Then Dilys Evans founded the Original Art Exhibition - an annual show in New York dedicated to the idea that children's book illustration was as much an art form as anything hanging in a museum. Soon she was advising award committees, curating other exhibitions, and teaching people around the country about the power of visual storytelling.

After requests from people across the children's book industry - librarians, editors, art directors, reviewers, even artists themselves - she has created this invaluable overview for everyone interested in illustrated children's books.

By Leonard S. Marcus

What should children read? As the preeminent children's literature authority, Leonard S. Marcus, shows incisively, that's the three-hundred-year-old question that sparked the creation of a rambunctious children's book publishing scene in Colonial times. And it's the urgent issue that went on to fuel the transformation of twentieth-century children's book publishing from a genteel backwater to big business

From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hat to The Chocolate War, Marcus offers a richly informed, witty appraisal of the pivotal books that transformed children's book publishing, and brings alive the revealing synergy between books like these and the national mood of their times.