The volume guides early childhood teachers and childcare professionals in recognizing high-quality children's literature and effectively using it to support emerging literacy development in preschool and primary-age children. The text exposes the literary merits of early childhood literature, and also explains how to use children's literature as a teaching tool, offering developmentally appropriate strategies for sharing literature with young children....

Students connect with Americans of the past through quality works of fiction, nonfiction, biography, folktale, and legend. American history ceases to be remote and unfamiliar and becomes the story of real individuals--colonists, pioneers, Native Americans, immigrants--with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This book is an excellent support for a literature-based history or social studies curriculum. This book closely integrates American history...