Presents brief annotations of 28 highly recommended children's picture books. (SR)

Provides brief descriptions of 27 children's books that teachers may use in approaching literary study and organizing literature units. Groups the books around literary elements, structures, devices, and genres. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 25 children's books that focus on heroes and heroines: ancient, traditional, and modern; real-life and fictional; and prominent and not prominent. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 19 children's picture books and 9 chapter books considered by the authors to be too wonderful to miss. (SR)

Provides brief descriptions of 27 picture books and chapter books for children, from many genres, which all feature characters on journeys, often momentous ones. (SR)

Presents annotations of 26 humorous children's picture books and chapter books. (RS)

Reviews 21 new books and provides a list of previously published books that teachers will find helpful in introducing young children (between 4 and 8 years old) to earlier eras. (PRA)

Presents student-written reviews of 28 children's books. (RS)

Presents brief descriptions and estimations of impact on middle school students of 23 illustrated books and chapter books. Notes that the books discuss a wide variety of issues important to middle school students. (RS)

Offers brief annotations of 26 picture books and chapter books that all deal with special relationships between and among people, or connecting people to nature and/or animals. (SR)

Offers brief annotations of 23 children's books in which characters read, talk about their reading, or in which the act of reading is important to the story line. (SR)

Highlights 27 books that invite children to write. Organizes them into four types: the predictable story, stories that reflect significant childhood experiences, stories with novel structure or content, and open-ended stories. (SR)

Offers annotations of 26 illustrated books and chapter books for children and adolescents that the writers of this column consider too good to miss. (SR)

Presents annotations of 26 picture books and chapter books in a number of different formats/genres that impart information but are not necessarily nonfiction. (RS)

Discusses 24 picture and chapter books (published in 1991 or 1992) that feature strong or interesting male and female characters. Notes that all have the potential to spark readers to think about what it means to them to be a boy or girl (or a man or a woman) in a particular culture. (RS)