More Books Kids Will Sit Still For: A Read-Aloud Guide

by Judy Freeman

Overview

Based on the author's day-to-day experience as a school librarian and storyteller, More Books Kids Will Sit Still For offers 1,400 of the most engaging hand-picked titles and is guaranteed to keeps kids on the edge of their seats. From picture books and fiction, folk and fairy tales to poetry, biography, and nonfiction, each annotated entry provides a brief plot summary, curriculum tie-ins, related titles, and subject designations.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780835237314
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/1995
Pages:	868
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.75(d)
Age Range:	5 - 11 Years

About the Author

JUDY FREEMAN (www.JudyReadsBooks.com) 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 City. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the U.S. 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. Freeman's Library Unlimited books include Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and 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.

Editorial Reviews

For librarians and elementary-level teachers, a New Jersey school librarian recommends about 1,400 picture books and works of poetry, folklore, fiction, and nonfiction to read aloud to children in preschool through sixth grade. Each entry summarizes the plot, gives recommended age levels, and suggests related titles and literature extension activities. Indexed by title, author, illustrator, and subject. This reference is the third in a series. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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