Product Description: Book clubs are sprouting up all over, and so are book club guides―but not all book club guides are equal. Many focus on a specific type of book club, or they take a generic approach of one size fits all; and most do not take into account the special needs of librarians and educators working with young readers...read more

Product Description: Paul Lachlan Peck, M. Ed., the editor of Classic Children's Literature for Your Home Library: 550 Years of Delightful Reading (1450-2000), is an inveterate bibliophile apart from being an ordained minister and family counselor. Here he has put together a wonderful list of books covering 550 years of children's literature...read more

Product Description: Anyone with the privilege of reading to young children will appreciate this useful guide and the summaries, commentaries, and talking points it provides for twenty-five modern classics of children's literature. Miriam Johnson brings her experience as a former classroom teacher, school librarian, parent, and grandparent to this book aimed at anyone who has the privilege to read to youngsters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Encouraging kids to talk about their favorite books is a powerful learning tool that can motivate and inspire. Books Your Kids Will Talk About! helps educators and parents navigate the world of children's literature. This comprehensive, multicultural, annotated booklist is organized around themes germane to a children's world...read more

Examining nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels, this volume offers a look at the motivation, conflict, relationships, and development of both major and minor characters

Entries for plays, poetry collections, science books, and more provide a form and content analysis as well as such information as author, type of work, brief plot summary, and list of principle characters

Entries for plays, poetry collections, science books, and more provide a form and content analysis as well as such information as author, type of work, brief plot summary, and list of principle characters

Entries for plays, poetry collections, science books, and more provide a form and content analysis as well as such information as author, type of work, brief plot summary, and list of principle characters

Product Description: Now with greater emphasis on book talking, discussion, and other extension activities, Primaryplots 2 is your first step toward introducing young readers to the joy of books. Designed to assist in the selection of quality children's literature for public library programs and in elementary school libraries and classrooms, this edition profiles 150 picture books published between 1988 and 1992, ranging from alphabet and counting books to poetry and concept books...read more

Provides information about, plot summaries of, and theme discussions for 480 titles geared toward children ages 10-18, including such works as 'Animal Farm,' 'Go Ask Alice,' 'Old Yeller,' and 'Lord of the Flies'

A guide to preparing book talks with children ages 4-8, which presents plot analyses and book talk material, and suggests a variety of titles to use covering different themes

Offers brief discussions about children's books dealing with family life, friendship, values, problems, nature, adult roles, and the outside world

Product Description: Book by Gillespie, John T.

A guide to preparing book talks for young people, ages nine to sixteen. Presents plot analysis, thematic material, book talk material, and additional suggestions on a variety of titles for each of eight themes of goals of adolescent reading.