(Hardback)

Students can learn more about their favorite authors and find plenty of reading materials they'll enjoy with this affordable biographical work and ready-reference.

(Hardback)

Fascinating profiles of 100 of the most beloved and celebrated picture book authors and illustrators are accompanied by photos, reading lists, and lists of related information sources (such as Web pages).

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

(Paperback)

Bring favorite authors and children together in your classroom with these three acclaimed books. Each book includes biographical information, a photo page, booklists, and numerous activities designed to build reading skills by stimulating reading fun.

(Paperback)

Step into the kitchen and stir up a batch of storybook treats with literary recipes based on the books and lives of 50 of your favorite children's authors and illustrators, including Eric Carle, Mary Casanova, Keiko Kasza, Steven Kellogg, Yuyi Morales, Janet Stevens, and Jane Yolen and 40 others.

(Paperback)

Focuses on 50 popular children's authors, including Berthe Amoss, Betsy Byars, Jean Fritz, Johanna Hurwitz, and others, with recipes contributed by the authors or based on their books. This book also helps you learn some fascinating facts about each author - and read the stories behind the recipes.

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Fifteen units focus on authors who speak about their ethnic heritage through their books and those who write or illustrate multicultural materials. Activities that reinforce the multicultural theme and bibliographies of related books and films are also featured.

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Each of the 17 chapters focuses on a specific trait or virtue and identifies dozens of picture books, novels, biographies, and nonfiction titles that illustrate the trait and can be used as springboards to discussions.

(Paperback)

Each of these volumes explores five popular genres and shows how they can be used to promote learning in the library and classroom. After introductory discussions of each genre, McElmeel recommends books, gives lists of related titles, and provides a variety of ideas for genre-related activities that complement classroom thematic units.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

(Paperback)

From Mendel to Normandy: Curriculum and Connectionsfor Tweens and Teens is an invaluable resource with many suggestions and with space for recording connecting ideas and strategies to infuse literacy into every area of the curriculumin classrooms and librarieswith older readers.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Categories include: bulletin boards, curriculum connections, promoting reading, teaching library skills, managing the library, public relations, using technology in the classroom, and "technology talk" (a section focusing on the "management" of technology more than its use of instruction).

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Share your colleagues' experience in this "professional workshop in a book" - attracting patrons to your library, using computers in the curriculum, curriculum collaboration, managing the library, library skills, public relations, reading motivation, and using volunteers.