Resources

This page contains links to other sites for further assistance in selecting books to read.

Children's Book Awards -- List of Children's Book Awards 

A Middle School Teacher's Guide for Selecting Picture Books


Children's Picture Book Database -- Site offers you:
  • abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books;
  • search capabilities for over 950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe each book;
  • weblinks for keywords so you can integrate your up-to-date content knowledge with our picture book resources.

Carol Hurst's Literature Site -- A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. 

Tips on Selecting Books for Children



Tips for choosing Multicultural Books

Teacher's First Reading Suggestions -- Reading lets students create their own adventures. The teacher-editors have selected titles that have shown continuing appeal, whether for school or recreation. New titles are added all the time, so check back here frequently.

www.amazon.com - great source of reviews for all kinds of books.

Barnes and Noble -  great source of reviews for all kinds of books.

Borders Book Store - great source of reviews for all kinds of books.

Titlewave -- Excellent source of full text reviews from numerous publications. Free registration required. Worth the effort. 

Kids Bookshelf Website -- website with book reviews and author spotlights.


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