The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children - Softcover

9780812916881: The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children
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In this newly revised edition of her successful guide, the children's books editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES recommends more than 1,700 new and classic books for every age group.

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The Classic Guide That Helps You Select the Books the Child You Know Will Love
In this third, fully revised and updated edition of The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children, the children's book editor of "The New York Times Book Review personally selects and recommends books for children of every age.
The most comprehensive and authoritative book of its kind has been completely updated for the new millennium. It contains hundreds of new entries, many expanded descriptions, and notations of additional companion and related titles -- more than l,700 in all. The best-loved classics of the twentieth century are included, as well as a thoughtful selection of outstanding titles from the last decade.
Six sections are organized according to reading level: Wordless, Picture, Story, Early Reading, Middle Reading, and Young Adult. In addition to a summary of the book, each entry provides the essential bibliographic information you need to find a book in your local library or bookstore, including
title
author and/or illustrator
hardcover and/or paperback publisher and publication year
major awards
related titles
The unique and most popular feature of the guide is its system of special indexes -- more than sixty in all. They make it easy for parents and grandparents, teachers and librarians, even children themselves, to match the right book to the right child. Browse through the indexes and find titles for every interest and mood: picture books about cats, mice, or dinosaurs for babies; funny books to read aloud to toddlers; series about family life or school or fantasy adventures for a middle-grade child; books on divorce or death; andcoming-of-age novels just right for someone starting junior high school. There are also indexes for books about minorities and religion, an age-appropriate reading-level index, and much more.
Lavishly decorated with more than three hundred illustrations from representative titles, the guide also features extra-wide margins for notes on which of your children liked which book, at what age, and why. Thus the guide becomes a family reading record as well as an invaluable resource you'll use again and again.
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In this revised and updated version of The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children, the children's book editor of The New York Times personally selects and recommends children's books for every age group. This single most comprehensive and authoritative book of its kind, completely updated for the 1990s, has over a hundred new listings, many expanded descriptions, and additional companion and related titles--over 1700 titles in all. Only the most well-loved and established classics (likely to remain in print for years to come) are included.

One of the outstanding features of this book is its special indexes--over 55 in all--that make it easy for parents and grandparents to match the right book to the right child. You may browse for titles organized according to almost every conceivable topic: from picture books about cats or mice, or dinosaur books for babies; to funny books to read aloud to toddlers; to series about family life or school, or fantasy-adventures for a middle-grade child; to books on divorce or death; to a coming-of-age novel that might be right for someone going into junior high school. There are indexes to books about minorities, religion, and age-appropriate reading level.

Packed with expert advice and beautifully organized and designed, the revised and updated edition of The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children is an invaluable resource and a classic in its field.

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  • PublisherTmes Books
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 0812916883
  • ISBN 13 9780812916881
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages421
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