ALSC's Popular Picks for Young Readers - Softcover

Foote, Diane; Association For Library Service To Children

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838936059 ISBN 13: 9780838936054

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2014

Synopsis

Featuring contributions by working librarians from around the country, this guide offers a goldmine of quality books for children, spotlighting more than 500 titles published within the last four years. Ranging from books for newborns through readers to age 14, the selected books encompass a wide variety of formats and themes to reflect the diversity of contemporary society. Popular Picks for Young Readers is equally useful for readers' advisory and collection development, and includes

• High-quality, well-reviewed books that are also popular with kids
• Only original titles, eliminating derivative works such as those based on a movie or licensed characters
• Picture books, graphic novels, poetry, informational books, fiction, and more
• Thorough annotations, with summary, author, and publication information
• Multiple indexes for easy searching by title, author, type of book, genre, award-winners, and subject matter

With selections geared towards every child's interest and reading level, this guide will help librarians, teachers, caregivers and others connect young readers to books they're sure to love.

About this title

About the Author:

Diane Foote is assistant dean at Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science in River Forest, Illinois, and is currently serving as fiscal officer and a member of the board of directors for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). She was a member of the 2010 John Newbery Award Selection Committee and the 2011 and 2012 Coretta Scott King Book Award Juries, and co-chaired the ALSC Preconference Planning Committee for the 2013 event that celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Caldecott Medal. She is a former executive director of ALSC and a former associate editor of Book Links magazine.

For more than eight decades, librarians from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) have intensely scrutinized the children's books published each year, selecting the winning and honour books for the Newbery and Caldecott Awards. In addition, the ALSC division of the ALA is committed to creating a nation of readers, starting with the youngest. ALSC supports all those providing library services to children, including youth librarians, teachers, families, literature experts, publishers, and child advocates.

Review:

"Very useful ... This bibliography will be a valuable addition to the professional collections in both school and public libraries where is can be used for both reading guidance and collection development." --American Reference Books Annual

"If it seems like a bunch of enthusiastic children's librarians handed you stacks of well-organized and annotated bibliographies filled with their favorite recent books for kids, well, they just did ... Grab this volume now; stock your shelves with these fun, quality titles; and get ready to press them into the hands of your young readers." --Booklist

"Convenient as a tool for collection-building as well as to recommend titles to young readers to discover and enjoy, this guide to contemporary children's titles is a good resource for children's librarians and teachers alike." --Catholic Library World

About this edition

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0838936059
• ISBN 13: 9780838936054
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216