"Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realizing the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...

A collection of stories, poems, holiday tales, humor, fantasies, and retellings of best-loved classics, with one for each day of the year.

It's back and it's bigger than ever, full of everything a children's librarian needs for reader's advisory and collection building. Provides thorough subject access to children's picture books, covering more than 13,000 titles.

Presents a listing of over 11,000 fiction and non-fiction books, for teens in grades seven through ten, that have been favorably reviewed by leading review sources, each with a brief summary; covering sixty-eight subject areas.

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze.