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 Jim Trelease

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 Anita Silvey

From classics to new favorites, 100 Best Books for Children "points parents in the right direction [to] 100 titles no child should miss" (Booklist). With thirty-five years of experience at the heart of children's publishing, Anita Silvey is better equipped than anyone else to help parents make the right reading choices, given the enormous range of children's books available today. From board books to title for older readers, Silvey narrows the field to 100 "best books," organizing them by age and providing descriptive essays and plot summaries, along with fascinating insights into the story behind the story that only an insider will know. Essential and inspiring, 100 Best Books for Children is a perfect handbook for parents who want to help their child develop a passion for reading that will last a lifetime.

By Anita Silvey

If you are looking for a book to give to a teenage reader, here's the reference you've been waiting for. Anita Silvey, one of the nation's leading authorities on books for young people, has interviewed teenage readers all over the country and immersed herself in young-adult books, with an emphasis on books published in the past five years. The result is this invaluable and very readable guide for parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, reading groups, and of course, teens themselves.

By Julia Eccleshare

Whether you are a parent seeking to instill a love of reading in your child, an educator or counselor looking for inspiration, or a young reader with a voracious appetite, this guide to the best writing for children and young adults covers the spectrum of children's literature. It's organized by age group - from board books to YA novels and all the gradations in between. 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 illustrations - not to mention important books from around the world.

By Anita Silvey

Here in one captivating and inspiring volume more than 100 leaders from the arts, sciences, politics, business and other fields recall a children's book they loved, and its impact on their lives. Insightful, funny, inspiring, and unexpected, the contributions illuminate the lives of a fascinating range of people and introduce readers to a selection of the best books for young readers. Each is accompanied by an excerpt and illustrations from the selected book and an informative background essay by distinguished children's book authority Anita Silvey.

By Roger Sutton & Martha V. Parravano

Roger Sutton, editor in chief of The Horn Book Magazine and executive editor, Martha V. Parravano write as book lovers addressing book lovers. They offer thoughtful essays that consider how books are read to and by young people and have invited leading artists and other children's literature experts such as Maurice Sendak, Katherine Paterson, Margaret Mahy, and Jon Scieszka to discuss the genres they know best. The result is like spending a pleasant afternoon in a room filled with expert readers to guide you through shelves of books you have not yet had a chance to browse. Here is a true readers' companion to the vast literature that stretches from wordless board books to complex and daring young adult novels.

By Roger Sutton & Martha V. Parravano

Join familiar voices -- Jon Scieszka, Maurice Sendak, Katherine Paterson, and noted reviewers, among many others -- as they discuss, debate, and recommend books for children of all ages. Compiled by the editors of The Horn Book Magazine, the most respected review journal of books for young readers, A Family of Readers is an invaluable guide for enriching the reading lives of your children.