My Name in Books: A Guide to Character Names in Children's Literature

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Because youngsters delight in reading about characters with the same first names as their own, this guide is a great way to motivate them to read! It helps users locate books by character names. The approximately 2,000 entries have publication information, type of book (fiction, picture book, biography), number of pages, and a brief annotation. The books listed are found in most children's library collections, and many are award winners (e.g., Boston Globe-Horn Book, Jane Addams, Coretta Scott King, Caldecott, Newbery, state readers' choices) or are listed in Children's Catalog or Elementary School Library Collection.

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Creative school and children's librarians will find many practical uses for this in programming, in summer reading programs, and in literacy programs.-Wilson Library Bulletin
Reasonably good readers in the primary grades can use it themselves. The annotations are short and clear, and the spacious format could hardly be easier to navigate.-CRRT Bulletin
Useful to identify titles when only the characters' names are known as well as to locate books for children which contain characters with their names or those of their friends.-Elementary School Library Collection
"Creative school and children's librarians will find many practical uses for this in programming, in summer reading programs, and in literacy programs."-Wilson Library Bulletin
"Reasonably good readers in the primary grades can use it themselves. The annotations are short and clear, and the spacious format could hardly be easier to navigate."-CRRT Bulletin
"Useful to identify titles when only the characters' names are known as well as to locate books for children which contain characters with their names or those of their friends."-Elementary School Library Collection

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