Informational Picture Books for Children

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Summary: Informational Picture Books for Children
Review: Designed to assist teachers, librarians and parents select children's books that are factual in nature, this book fills a gap by providing a wide bibliographic scope, thoroughly annotated, of the current literature available. Cianciolo chose 250 recently published (1994-1999) picture books for preschool through middle school children for her evaluations. Her guidelines for selection of these books by both aesthetic and literary merit are useful when evaluating other titles in this genre. She includes a variety of subject areas, from biographies, numbers and arithmetic to arts and crafts. An excellent contribution to be included in anyone's library where selection of quality children's materials is paramount.