Informational picture books for children

✍ Scribed by Cianciolo, Patricia J.

• Publisher: American Library Association
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presents guidelines for evaluating quality in informational books, and features descriptions of 260 contemporary informational picture books for children from six months to fourteen years, grouped in eight categories including the natural world, numbers and arithmetic, children and families, and arts and crafts.

✦ Table of Contents

Informational picture books: definitions, selection criteria, and trends --
The natural world --
Numbers and arithmetic --
The physical world --
Finding new worlds --
Children and families --
Peoples and cultures --
Language --
Arts and crafts.

✦ Subjects

Children’s literature, English -- Book reviews;Picture books for children -- United States -- Book reviews;LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading;Children’s literature, English;Picture books for children;United States