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Explains the benefits of using picture books to h promote reading and critical thinking in students in grades four through twelve.

Presents 538 unabridged reviews of reference books and CD-ROMs published in the U.S. and Canada during 1998, along with English-language titles from other countries; grouped in more than thirty topics, with author/title and subject indexes.

Provides biographical information, a selection of critical essays, and complete bibliographies for twelve women writers of English children's literature, including Louisa May Alcott, Ursula Le Guin, Beatrix Potter, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Contains over 450 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about more than two hundred years of Black literature, featuring biographies of writers from around the world; literary work synopses; and essays on themes, topics, literary movements, and terms and genres.

Profiles more than five hundred titles designed to help students cope with the challenges of growing up, with complete annotations for each title listing publishing information, topics covered, and cultural background.

Recommends books for children, from preschool picture books to young adult fiction.

Annotated books help children understand themselves and others.