More treats! More author profiles! More fun! This companion to McElmeel's Authors in the Kitchen focuses on another 50 popular children's authors, including Berthe Amoss, Betsy Byars, Jean Fritz, Johanna Hurwitz, and others, with delectable recipes contributed by the authors or based on their books.You'll learn fascinating facts about each author and read the stories behind the recipes. Biographical details, author photos, book lists, and reading connections make this a perfect resource for library, classroom, and home. If you love children's books and food, you'll love this book. It's a delicious way to learn about children's authors and literature, and a great gift for children's literature lovers!You'll learn fascinating facts about each author and read the stories behind the recipes. Biographical details, author photos, book lists, and reading connections make this a perfect resource for library, classroom, and home. If you love children's books and food, you'll love this book. It's a delicious way to learn about children's authors and literature, and a great gift for children's literature lovers! Grades K-6.

Product Description: Step into the kitchen and stir up a batch of storybook treats with literary recipes based on the books and lives of 50 of your favorite children's authors and illustrators, including Eric Carle, Mary Casanova, Keiko Kasza, Steven Kellogg, Yuyi Morales, Janet Stevens, and Jane Yolen and 40 others...read more

Profiles forty-five children's authors and illustrators, with photos, biographical sketches, bibliographies of their works, and lists of resources.

Product Description: Now a national priority, character education is being implemented by schools and other public and private organizations across the United States. Whether you are establishing a character education program or looking for an effective way to teach your children the importance of values and good character, this book, loaded with nearly 300 resources, can help...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Each letter of the alphabet represents a theme which is used to tie together different literatures and library resources (view table of contents)

Build excitement about reading with successful author/illustrator visits and "virtual visit" celebrations! Here's step-by-step help in organizing actual visits or "virtual" celebrations―including lively curricular activities. You'll find new models to help you gather community support, plus new ways to obtain funding and involve co-sponsors. All the necessary steps are covered: the choice of person, timing, place, equipment…getting the books, resource booklets, and videos…helping teachers publicize the event to students (including activities tied to various content areas)…and holding "proxy visits", events celebrating author/illustrator works, "Read-ins," or visits by e-mail. A number of reproducible forms help make any event flow smoothly―also aided by all the updated contact and related information in the resource section.• Expanded with more ideas, guides, and updated resource information, including websites and new books • Gives many examples of curriculum-related activities and ways to use the event to promote literacy• Presents alternatives to on-site visits, author-focused celebrations, and virtual visits• Promote enhanced literacy through an exciting celebration of books and the authors and illustrators who create them! You'll build a love of reading, show connections between books (developing higher order thinking skills), and promote reading comprehension as young readers grow in authentic response to their reading. (view table of contents)

Collects over 400 tips drawn from the pages of 'Library Talk' magazine, compiling ideas and suggestions for bulletin boards, displays, curriculum connections, reading, library skills, management, public relations, and technology.

Presents 100 entries on children's English language authors and illustrators, providing biographical sketches of each author illustrator. (view table of contents)

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A compilation of over 800 ideas and suggestions in nine categories provides ways to attract patrons to the information center, integrate computers into a curriculum, manage the library, enhance skills, and improve public relations.

Lists and describes Web sites dedicated to a myriad of holidays and special events, noting each site's age level and suggesting curriculum tie-ins for such events as National Inventors Day, Earth Day, and Chinese New Year.

A guide based on a 1997 survey of popular children's book authors provides biographical sketches and selected bibliographies for such writers as Beverly Cleary, Lois Lawry, Lewis Carroll, Mary Downing Hahn, and C.S. Lewis.

Offers a history of the Internet and how it works, discusses graphic browsers, e-mail, and file transfers, and provides information on training faculty and staff, and more

Includes chapters for folklore, contemporary fiction, fantasy, biographies, and tales from around the world, and suggests classroom and library activities to accompany them

Includes chapters for folklore, contemporary fiction, fantasy, biographies, and tales from around the world, and suggests classroom and library activities to accompany them

Provides advice on selecting nonfiction, discusses using nonfiction for reading aloud, and recommends titles and related works in a variety of subject areas, from 'Adoption' to 'Wounds and injuries,' as well as biographies of people from Sojourner Truth to Helen Keller

Product Description: In this accessible handbook, McElmeel brings together recent books (published since 1988) that she recommends for reading aloud to children. The section on books for younger children briefly describes 56 picture books, while the second, much fuller section includes 109 longer books...read more

Product Description: Bring poetry into every child's daily experience with activities based on the verses of such traditional and contemporary poets as Robert Louis Stevenson, Shel Silverstein, Karla Kuskin, and John Ciardi. Activities for sparking an interest in and an enjoyment of poetry promote listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills...read more

Offers profiles of nine authors and illustrators of children's books

Examines how different cultures are presented in children's literature, and introduces authors who incorporate this topic into their works

Product Description: Book by McElmeel, Sharron L.

Offers profiles and posters of a dozen children's authors, and suggests activies dealing with each author's books