Sharing the Journey: Literature for Young Children

Sharing the Journey: Literature for Young Children
Author: David Yellin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 847
Release: 2017-05-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351812963

This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children's literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on infants through the third grade, Sharing the Journey contains descriptive book annotations, instructive commentary, and creative teaching activities tailored for those important years. Extensive book lists throughout will help readers build a library of quality children's literature. Books representing other cultures are included to help celebrate diversity as well as cultural connection. Genre chapters include poetry, fantasy, and realistic and historical fiction. A chapter on informational books demonstrates how young children can be introduced to, and learn to enjoy, nonfiction.

Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults

Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults
Author: Isabel Schon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1987
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780810820043

Like its predecessors, this book serves as a guide to any adult interested in selecting books in Spanish for children in preschool through high school. Most of the books included in the guide have been published since 1984 and come from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, the U.S., Uruguay, and Venezuela. The author has identified books that highlight the lifestyle, folklore, history, fiction, poetry, theater, and classical literature of Hispanic cultures as expressed by Hispanic authors and has also included nonfiction and bilingual books and Spanish translations of popular fiction and nonfiction. With appendices and indexes.

Adventuring with Books

Adventuring with Books
Author: National Council of Teachers of English. Committee on the Elementary School Booklist
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1985
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780814100769

Contains an annotated booklist of 1700 new children's books selected by the Committee on the Elementary School Booklist of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles

Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles
Author: Monika Beisner
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1987
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780374453176

One hundred one riddles include old favorites and new puzzles. Full-page, color illustrations provide clues.

A to Zoo

A to Zoo
Author: Carolyn W. Lima
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1832
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Presents a guide to nearly 27,000 children's oicture book titles grouped in over 1,200 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.

SRA Open Court Reading

SRA Open Court Reading
Author: Marilyn Jager Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2002
Genre: Language arts (Elementary)
ISBN: 9780075696889

Contains materials designed to aid students in understanding the stories and lessons in Level 5 of the SRA Open Court reading series. Blackline masters in the decodable books allow students to apply their knowledge of phonics elements to read simple texts.