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Title: The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children (New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children) by Eden Ross Lipson ISBN: 0812930185 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2
Rating: 4
Summary: very helpful, but not perfect
Comment: This is a wonderful tool for parents trying to guide their children's early reading intelligently. The organization of the book and the descriptions of each book are generally helpful, though information about age level and number of pages should have been included. Organizing categories in the main listing are vaguely defined (wordless books, picture books, story books, early reading books, middle reading books and young adult books), making the indexes the better access point. These indexes are sufficient to help you find a relevant book. There is: a title list; an author list; an illustrator list; an age appropriate list (which might have based a better organization for the main listing); a read-aloud list; and a subject list of 53 headings, including Adoption, Adventure, Alphabet, Bedtime, Divorce, Horses and Nature.
The author renders a valuable service in examining multiple editions of popular books, for example you might find that one particular treatment of the Mother Goose tales is rather musical and illustrated with pen and ink drawings, while another is more colorfully animated and textually simplified for very young readers.
Unless you really know children's literature, a book like this is an invaluable tool. Similar but more directed resources are Great Books for Boys and Great Books for Girls by Kathleen Odean, which is organized into reading levels and then genre, and includes age level but not page count. Jim Trelease's The Read-Aloud Handbook is a very good, somewhat evangelical, resource organized by genre with age level and page count included in the description.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Books for Children
Comment: This is a great book with tons of books listed. But, it could be better... The book descriptions are very terse (usually only one or two sentences). .... A couple other things missing that I would have liked to see is the number of pages in each book and approximate reading level (ex. low-4th grade). That would make this guide more useful when picking a book for a book report. Overall the quantity and quality of the books listed and the index in the back that cross-references the books based on subject interests makes this book an invaluable resource.
Rating: 3
Summary: updated, sure, but revised?
Comment: This book may have been updated, but I don't know about the "revised" part. I was disappointed to find that this edition contained the same and similar inaccuracies as the prior editions. For example, _Weetzie Bat_ is a wonderful book. But its sequels are, in order, _Witch Baby_, _Cherokee Bat and the Goat *Guys*_ (not Boys!), _Missing Angel Juan_, and _Baby Be-bop_. I expect better things from the New York Times children's book editor--not sloppy errors.
I'm glad this book exists, and it does contain much valuable information, and it is well-organized. But perfect it is not.
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Title: The Read-Aloud Handbook (Read-Aloud Handbook, 5th Ed) by Jim Trelease ISBN: 0141001615 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Great Books for Boys: More Than 600 Books for Boys 2 to 14 by Kathleen Odean ISBN: 0345420837 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Recommended Books for Girls Ages 3-14 by Kathleen Odean ISBN: 0345450213 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Great Books About Things Kids Love: More Than 750 Recommended Books for Children 3 to 14 by Kathleen Odean ISBN: 0345441311 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Hey! Listen to This: Stories to Read Aloud by Jim Trelease ISBN: 0140146539 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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