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Children's Books:

• Featured Books (Teaching guides with reviews, activities, related books and links.)
• Book Reviews listed by Title, Author or Grade Level:

Curriculum Areas and Children's Literature:

• Language Arts
  • Language Arts Professional Books
  • Reading
    • Reading Aloud grades PreK - 9
    • Emergent Readers
    • Guided Reading and Good Literature
    • Looking Critically at Picture Books with Students.
    • Parallel Reading, Adults and Students.
  • Literature
    • Biographies and Memoirs
    • Folk and Fairy Tales, Tongue-in-Cheek Versions.
    • Quests
    • Mythology (Greek and Roman)
    • Mysteries
    • Picture Books, Looking Critically for older kids.
    • Characters: Bullies in Literature
    • Characters: Fools and Tricksters.
    • Characters: Kids Reading and Learning to Read
    • Poetry
  • Writing
• Math
• US History
• World History
• Social Studies, Geography & Cultures
  • Biographies and Memoirs
  • Buildings and Architecture
  • Deserts
  • Families
  • Work and Careers
  • Native Americans
  • Appalachia
  • Martin Luther King Day
  • Oceans
  • Rivers
  • States
  • Time-Travel Fantasies and History
  • Cities and Towns
• Science
  • Deserts
  • Flight
  • Nutrition Book Hunt
  • Oceans
  • Time
  • Weather
  • Wind
• Art
  • Architecture and Buildings

Other Subjects and Themes in Children's Literature:

• Appalachia
• Biographies
• Buildings
• Bullies
• Cities and Towns
• Color
• Families
• Farms
• Flight
• Food
• Fools and Tricksters
• Geology
• The Great Depression
• Local History and Family Stories
• Memoirs
• Native Americans
• Oceans
• Poetry
• Quests
• Quilts
• Reading, Characters as Readers
• Rivers
• Slavery
• Schools and Teachers
• States
• Time
• Trains
• Wind
• Women's History
• Work and Careers

Children's Book Authors and Illustrators

• Featured Authors and Illustrators
  • Anno, Mitsumasa
  • Avi
  • Baylor, Byrd
  • Byars, Betsy
  • Cooney, Barbara
  • Carle, Eric
  • Dr. Seuss
  • Fritz, Jean
  • Goodman, Susan
  • Hamilton, Virginia
  • Henkes, Kevin
  • Hutchins, Pat
  • Lasky, Kathryn
  • Lobel, Arnold
  • Lowry, Lois
  • Naylor, Phyllis
  • Paterson, Katherine
  • Peck, Richard
  • Simon, Seymour
  • Stevenson, James

Professional Topics:

• Language Arts Professional Books
• Reading
• Writing
• Whole Language
• Children's Literature
  • Professional Books by Carol Otis Hurst
  • Free Children's Literature Newsletter
  • Looking Critically at Picture Books with Students.
  • Picture Books in the Classroom, PreK-9
  • Mythology (Greek and Roman)

• See Also Curriculum Areas above.

Parenting Resources

• Reading With Your Child at Home
• Raising Readers: Helping Your Child to Literacy

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• Archive of Past Issues
• General Information
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Our Books:

• Professional Children's Literature Books
• Children's Fiction Titles

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