The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children

Informationen zum Autor EDEN ROSS LIPSON has been the children's book editor for The New York Times Book Review for more than fifteen years. She has raised four children and lives in New York City. Klappentext The Classic Guide That Helps You Select the Books the Child You Know Will Love In this third, fully revised and updated edition of The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children , the children's book editor of The New York Times Book Review personally selects and recommends books for children of every age. The most comprehensive and authoritative book of its kind has been completely updated for the new millennium. It contains hundreds of new entries, many expanded descriptions, and notations of additional companion and related titles -- more than l,700 in all. The best-loved classics of the twentieth century are included, as well as a thoughtful selection of outstanding titles from the last decade. Six sections are organized according to reading level: Wordless, Picture, Story, Early Reading, Middle Reading, and Young Adult. In addition to a summary of the book, each entry provides the essential bibliographic information you need to find a book in your local library or bookstore, including title author and/or illustrator hardcover and/or paperback publisher and publication year major awards related titles The unique and most popular feature of the guide is its system of special indexes -- more than sixty in all. They make it easy for parents and grandparents, teachers and librarians, even children themselves, to match the right book to the right child. Browse through the indexes and find titles for every interest and mood: picture books about cats, mice, or dinosaurs for babies; funny books to read aloud to toddlers; series about family life or school or fantasy adventures for a middle-grade child; books on divorce or death; and coming-of-age novels just right for someone starting junior high school. There are also indexes for books about minorities and religion, an age-appropriate reading-level index, and much more. Lavishly decorated with more than three hundred illustrations from representative titles, the guide also features extra-wide margins for notes on which of your children liked which book, at what age, and why. Thus the guide becomes a family reading record as well as an invaluable resource you'll use again and again.This book is for people who care about honest-to-goodness children and who want to instill in them a love of reading. It is for adults who understand that reading is the key to the future--indeed, to the preservation of civilization--but who also read for their own entertainment and hope their children will, too. In other words, as I said a dozen years ago when the first New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children was finished, "This book is for the converted." That much hasn't changed, but a great deal else has. The youngsters I knew best back then are nearly all grown now, and within the breadth of their memories, the childhood experience changed as surely as it did when the radio and then television first entered the home. I wrote that edition on the first computer in our house, a large contraption that occupied the space of honor in the living room, just the way those other newfangled machines had in earlier times. The new world--for children as well as adults--is filled with batteries and magical electronics, with computers, cell phones, beepers, interactive activities and games, and elaborate merchandise tie-ins. It is also a world in which many American children lead far more restricted lives than their parents did. They move about less freely; they have less unstructured time; they are bombarded by commercial entertainment. One of the pleasures of being a parent--grand, god, surrogate, or just Mom and Dad--is helping ...

Autorentext
EDEN ROSS LIPSON has been the children's book editor for The New York Times Book Review for more than fifteen years. She has raised four children and lives in New York City.

Klappentext
The Classic Guide That Helps You Select the Books the Child You Know Will Love

In this third, fully revised and updated edition of The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children, the children's book editor of The New York Times Book Review personally selects and recommends books for children of every age.

The most comprehensive and authoritative book of its kind has been completely updated for the new millennium. It contains hundreds of new entries, many expanded descriptions, and notations of additional companion and related titles -- more than l,700 in all. The best-loved classics of the twentieth century are included, as well as a thoughtful selection of outstanding titles from the last decade.

Six sections are organized according to reading level: Wordless, Picture, Story, Early Reading, Middle Reading, and Young Adult. In addition to a summary of the book, each entry provides the essential bibliographic information you need to find a book in your local library or bookstore, including
title
author and/or illustrator
hardcover and/or paperback publisher and publication year
major awards
related titles

The unique and most popular feature of the guide is its system of special indexes -- more than sixty in all. They make it easy for parents and grandparents, teachers and librarians, even children themselves, to match the right book to the right child. Browse through the indexes and find titles for every interest and mood: picture books about cats, mice, or dinosaurs for babies; funny books to read aloud to toddlers; series about family life or school or fantasy adventures for a middle-grade child; books on divorce or death; and coming-of-age novels just right for someone starting junior high school. There are also indexes for books about minorities and religion, an age-appropriate reading-level index, and much more.

Lavishly decorated with more than three hundred illustrations from representative titles, the guide also features extra-wide margins for notes on which of your children liked which book, at what age, and why. Thus the guide becomes a family reading record as well as an invaluable resource you'll use again and again.

Leseprobe
This book is for people who care about honest-to-goodness children and who want to instill in them a love of reading. It is for adults who understand that reading is the key to the future--indeed, to the preservation of civilization--but who also read for their own entertainment and hope their children will, too.

In other words, as I said a dozen years ago when the first New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children was finished, "This book is for the converted."

That much hasn't changed, but a great deal else has.

The youngsters I knew best back then are nearly all grown now, and within the breadth of their memories, the childhood experience changed as surely as it did when the radio and then television first entered the home. I wrote that edition on the first computer in our house, a large contraption that occupied the space of honor in the living room, just the way those other newfangled machines had in earlier times.

The new world--for children as well as adults--is filled with batteries and magical electronics, with computers, cell phones, beepers, interactive activities and games, and elaborate merchandise tie-ins. It is also a world in which many American children lead far more restricted lives than their parents did. They move about less freely; they have less unstructured time; they are bombarded by commercial entertainment.

One of the pleasures of being a parent--grand, god, surrogate, or just Mom and Dad--is helping to choose books. They are wonderful gifts. They cost more or less the same as old-fashioned…

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