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

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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.

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Drawing on her years of experience as librarian and storyteller, Freeman offers practical suggestions for numerous literature-based activities to enrich the language arts curriculum.-School Library Journal
Liberally sprinkled with titles, chock full of ideas and supplemented with high-quality bibliographies ... librarians will find helpful and few children will be able to resist.-Booklist
What distinguishes this volume and its previous companion work from other similar compilations are the refreshing, enticing annotations. Their originality and citations to additional related works leave no doubt that Freeman has read and probably used each title in a read-aloud, workshop, or booktalk session. Her "50 Ways to Recognize a Read-Aloud" constitutes an almost guaranteed basis for acquisitions that are certain to be borrowed by users of any age.Librarians, teachers, and parents who work with children should consider this a mandatory purchase. It succeeds in furnishing not only a list of new materials, but even more important, the methods and programs to bring literature to life.-ARBA
"Drawing on her years of experience as librarian and storyteller, Freeman offers practical suggestions for numerous literature-based activities to enrich the language arts curriculum."-School Library Journal
"Liberally sprinkled with titles, chock full of ideas and supplemented with high-quality bibliographies ... librarians will find helpful and few children will be able to resist."-Booklist
"What distinguishes this volume and its previous companion work from other similar compilations are the refreshing, enticing annotations. Their originality and citations to additional related works leave no doubt that Freeman has read and probably used each title in a read-aloud, workshop, or booktalk session. Her "50 Ways to Recognize a Read-Aloud" constitutes an almost guaranteed basis for acquisitions that are certain to be borrowed by users of any age.Librarians, teachers, and parents who work with children should consider this a mandatory purchase. It succeeds in furnishing not only a list of new materials, but even more important, the methods and programs to bring literature to life."-ARBA

Author Bio

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.