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Lists of Recommended Books via the Web
- Horn Book - Recommended BooksPromoting good books for children and young adults is the heart of the Horn Book’s editorial mission. Listed here are annotated booklists of recommended, mostly recently published titles.
- Horn Book - Children's Classics (pdf)The Horn Book's most popular booklist, prepared by Mary Burns, has achieved it own classic status as essential reading for all new parents, teachers, and librarians.
- Children's Picture Book DatabaseAn academic website which gives teachers, librarians, parents, and students a place for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects.
- NEA's Read Across America BooklistsAmong the lists are: Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children, 50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know, and Kids' Top 100 Books
- Children's Book CouncilThe Children's Book Council produces a number of reading lists for young people.
Selected Reference Books
A to Zoo by ISBN: 1591582326Publication Date: 2005-12-01This best-selling standard reference resource offers you up-to-date information on fiction and nonfiction picture books for children. Comprehensive and easy to use, it consists of a subject guide, a bibliographic guide, and title and illustrator indexes. This 7th edition adds more than 4,000 titles published since 2001. An introduction discusses the history and amazing growth of English-language picture books. A to Zoo is used both in reader's advisory and collection building.
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by ISBN: 9780192115829Publication Date: 1984-07-19Dig into almost 2,000 entries in this bulging resource, where Anne of Green Gables rubs elbows with the Lord of the Rings, Mother Goose with Punch and Judy, Hans Christian Andersen with Christina Rossetti, and Maurice Sendak with Kate Greenaway. It's thorough -- and indispensable for teachers, librarians, and parents.
