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Black Books Galore's Guide to Great African American Children's Books
by Donna Rand  Publisher Comments This is a great resource that fills a tremendous need. It should be on parents' shelves at home as well as in every school. --Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. Harvard Medical School These are exciting times for African American children's literature. Never...
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Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922
by Gillian Avery Publisher Comments In Behold the Child, Gillian Avery offers an engaging account of children's literature in America from colonial times to the early twentieth century. Exploring a variety of social, cultural, and practical forces, Avery shows how the literature of the old...
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Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories
by William Kilpatrick Publisher Comments Here is a family guide to classic novels, contemporary fiction, myths and legends, science fiction and fantasy, folktales, Bible stories, picture books, biographies, holiday stories, and many other books that celebrate virtues and values. There are more...
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100 Books for Girls to Grow on
by Shireen Dodson Publisher Comments Alan and Naomi by Myron Levoy The specter of the Nazi Holocaust shadows the lives of two 12-year-olds living in New York City in 1944. Alan just wants life to be ordinary, yet his existence is changed forever when a young, Jewish French girl, traumatized...
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Presenting Phyllis R Naylor CL (Twayne's Young Adult Authors)
by Lois Thomas Stover Publisher Comments This groundbreaking series examines the life and work of a bestselling young adult novelist, helping both teachers and readers of young adult literature to understand many of their favorite authors.<P>Each title in this unique series provides: <...
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Growing Up with Dick and Jane: Learning and Living the American Dream
by Carole Kismaric Publisher Comments They're back! Growing Up with Dick and Jane reunites us with two old friends, Dick and Jane, who, for forty years, taught so many of us to read. Here's the all American brother and sister team. Look! It's Dick, in his striped polo shirts and shorts...
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Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie, & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
by Jane Yolen Publisher Comments Our children are growing up without their birthright: the myths, fairy tales, fantasies and folklore that are their proper legacy....
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Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature
by Selma G Lanes Publisher Comments A writer & CRITIC with a broad grasp of her subject, an acute eye for talent (and occasionally genius), and a sure prose style, Selma Lanes is our grande dame of children's literature. She wrote the definitive book on Maurice Sendak. She has...
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Required Reading for All Teenagers: Or at Least for One Who Is Very Important to Me!
by Douglas Pagels Publisher Comments Ideal for sharing between friends, or from a parent to their young adult, this beautiful gift book expresses love and encouragement to today's teens. Full color....
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Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literature
by Anne H Lundin Publisher Comments Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse...
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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
by Francis Spufford Publisher Comments In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his...
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Read Well, Think Well: Build Your Child's Reading, Comprehension, and Critical-Thinking Skills
by Hal W Lanse Publisher Comments Millions of children struggle with reading-and even more struggle to understand exactly what they're reading. Read Well, Think Well will help you to teach your children to build the essential reading and comprehension skills they need to succeed in today'...
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Spirited Minds: African American Books for Our Sons and Our Brothers
by Archie Givens Publisher Comments For African American boys and the people who teach and love them, a guide to books that will create pride and a desire to learn. Spirited Minds is a unique resource containing lively, informative descriptions of more than one hundred outstanding works of...
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Reading Lives: Reconstructing Childhood, Books, and Schools in Britain, 1870-1920
by Gretchen Galbraith Publisher Comments Drawing on a variety of disciplines, this study examines the social, political and cultural forces that redefined childhood in Britain between 1860 and 1920 as well as the relationship of childhood to struggles over class, gender and race....
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Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon
by Leonard S. Marcus Publisher Comments Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moonand dozens of other children's classics, all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she knew of a child's need for security,...
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Really Good Books for Kids: A Guide for Catechists and Parents
by Janaan Manternach Publisher Comments Locating worthwhile books for kids can be a challenge in our contemporary culture. How can a teacher, catechist, or parent find reading material these days that reflects moral values and/or teaches something about God? In Really Good Books For Kids...
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Valerie & Walter's Best Books for Children: A Lively, Opinionated Guide
by Valeriem Lewis Publisher Comments With wit, candor, and boundless enthusiasm, Valerie V. Lewis and Walter M. Mayes have selected more than 2,000 wonderful books for children from birth to age 12. Here is the most useful, candid, and convenient guide to children's literature ever...
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For the Love of Reading: Books to Build Lifelong Readers
by David Bouchard Publisher Comments In For the Love of Reading, David Bouchard has teamed up with literacy experts Anne Letain, Sally Bender and Lucie Poulin-Mackey to give lists of books to inspire us and our children. Whether you are a parent, a teacher, an administrator, an auntie, a...
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Exploring Harry Potter
by Elizabeth D Schafer Publisher Comments If you are reading, teaching, or patenting Harry Potter fans, this indispensable guidebook takes you behind the Potter legend, into the life of its author J. K. Rowling, and gives young readers many more hours of enjoyment beyond reading the novels...
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Children's Literature: An Anthology 1801-1902 (Blackwell Anthologies)
by Peter Hunt Publisher Comments Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels....
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