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READING PROMOTION AND LITERACY

Libraries, Literacy, The Picture
and African Book Almanac
American Youth Picture Books and

Research and Practice Activities to Celebrate
365 Familiar and
SANDRA HUGHES-HASSELL,
PAULETTA BROWN BRACY, AND Unusual Holidays
CASEY H. RAWSON, EDITORS
NANCY J. POLETTE
This important book is a call to The book would make
action for the library community “ a great addition to any
October 2016, 250pp, 7x10 to address the literacy and life November 2015, 187pp, 8 1/2x11 children’s librarian or
Print: 978-1-4408-3872-9 outcome gaps impacting African Print: 978-1-4408-4276-4 elementary educator’s
$50.00, £39.00, €46.00 American youth. It provides $40.00, £31.00, €37.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-3873-6 eBook: 978-1-4408-4277-1 reference shelf and
strategies that enable school could be useful for those
and public librarians to transform their services, programs, and home-schooling or caring for children at home as
”
collections to be more responsive to the literacy strengths, well.
experiences, and needs of African American youth.
—ProtoView, December 17, 2015
FEATURES
This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you
• Clarifies the role of public and school librarians in meeting celebrate special days throughout the year—even “holidays”
the literacy needs of African American youth
you’ve never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and
• Brings together research findings on the literacy strengths activities that could inspire your students to become life-long
and needs of African American youth and best practices readers.
for librarians seeking to improve their services to this
population FEATURES
• Provides specific examples of successful programs for • Includes more than 365 recommended picture books selected
working with African American youth that can be adapted by for their genuine worth as well as for their diversity
other school or public libraries

Celebrating Cuentos
Read, Rhyme, Promoting Latino
and Romp Children’s Literature and

Early Literacy Skills and Literacy in Classrooms
Activities for Librarians, and Libraries
Teachers, and Parents JAMIE CAMPBELL NAIDOO, EDITOR

HEATHER MCNEIL
More effectively meet the diverse
Designed to promote literacy literacy needs of the growing Latino
in young children and to population by learning how to
empower parents, educators, November 2010, 381pp, evaluate and select quality Latino
June 2012, 226pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 and librarians, this guide is 6 1/8x9 1/4 children’s literature.
Print: 978-1-59884-956-1 Print: 978-1-59158-904-4
$45.00, £35.00, €41.00 filled with simple strategies, $55.00, £43.00, €50.00
eBook: 978-1-59884-957-8 creative activities, and detailed eBook: 978-1-59158-905-1
instructions that help make
reading fun. FEATURES

FEATURES • Details specific practical strategies for incorporating Latino
children’s literature into literacy and library programs
• Includes research that highlights the importance of encouraging
early literacy skills • Contains interviews with notable award-winning Latino authors
and illustrators
• Shares personal anecdotes from parents, teachers, and
librarians about the power of books • Offers the latest research in the area of Latino children’s
literature and literacy

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