Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)

Freeman, Judy

ISBN 10: 159158163X / ISBN 13: 9781591581635

Published by Libraries Unlimited, 2006

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• Title: Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159158163X
• ISBN 13: 9781591581635
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 by librarian and children's literature troubadour Judy Freeman is here at last. The largest and most comprehensive book of its kind ever written, it's an indispensable treasure trove of 1,700 child-tested favorite read-aloud titles, published since 1995. Everything here―the text chapters (About Children's Books and Ways to Use Them), the Annotated Read-Aloud Lists for preschool through grade 6, the professional books bibliography, and the indexes―is 100 percent new!

This is the definitive source for the best recent picture books, fiction, poetry, folklore, biography, and nonfiction books to share with children. The extensively annotated bibliography incorporates thousands of innovative and inspirational ideas for booktalking, book discussion, creative drama, storytelling, poetry, writing, library skills, and other literature-based teaching.

Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 by librarian and children's literature troubadour Judy Freeman is here at last. The largest and most comprehensive book of its kind ever written, it's an indispensable treasure trove of 1,700 child-tested favorite read-aloud titles, published since 1995. Everything here―the text chapters (About Children's Books and Ways to Use Them), the Annotated Read-Aloud Lists for preschool through grade 6, the professional books bibliography, and the indexes―is 100% new! This is the definitive source for the best recent picture books, fiction, poetry, folklore, biography, and nonfiction books to share with children. The extensively annotated bibliography incorporates thousands of innovative and inspirational ideas for booktalking, book discussion, creative drama, storytelling, poetry, writing, library skills, and other literature-based teaching.

Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide is the latest all-new volume in the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, which includes Books Kids Will Sit Still For: A Read-Aloud Guide, Second Edition and More Books Kids Will Sit Still For: A Read-Aloud Guide.

The three books together constitute a tour of the best of children's literature and how to use it, with a total of more than 5,000 invaluable annotations of exemplary children's books.

About the Author

Judy Freeman is a well-known consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature and storytelling, and a visiting lecturer at the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York, NY. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the United States and the world for teachers, librarians, parents, and children, and is a national seminar presenter for BER (Bureau of Education and Research). Freeman served as a member of the Newbery Committee to select the Newbery Award book for the year 2000 and was on the Sibert Committee for 2008. Her published works include Libraries Unlimited's Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama; Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6; the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series; and the yearly The Winners Handbook, reviewing her top 100 children's books of the past year. Judy's latest and most exciting project is writing children's book reviews and other content for author James Patterson's new website for parents, librarians, and teachers, www.READKIDDOREAD.com. Her website is at www.JudyReadsBooks.com.