Introduction
Welcome to our Top 100 Children’s Book blog. Here you can browse titles for children age 0 – 8 by category and find a plethora of information about each book. Each post features a book summary, comprehensive review, and additional information including pictures, awards, author/illustrator links, and application ideas.
We used a variety of sources to find book recommendations and suggestions for selection criteria and guidelines for reviewing. The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) provided criteria for the many awards the organization sponsors including Newbery, Caldecott, Sibert, and Giesel. ALSC was also a valuable resource for book lists. The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern Californian (ACLNC) offered book recommendations, programming ideas, general review guidelines plus diversity awareness review guidelines. Additional review guidelines and general information about children’s literature were found in Kathleen T. Horning’s book From cover to cover: Evaluating and reviewing children’s books and Donna E. Norton’s Through the eyes of a child: An introduction to children’s literature. Titlewave.com provided bibliographical information. Information about authors and illustrators, interviews, and reviews were harvested from the Internet.
When reviewing books, we addressed the success of the storyline and the fusion of text and illustration. We described the appearance including font and art medium and style. We also made an effort to describe the race, culture, skin color, and sexual orientation of characters if applicable in an effort to raise awareness of diversity in children’s literature.
We created the following rubric for consideration in the selection of materials.
We used a variety of sources to find book recommendations and suggestions for selection criteria and guidelines for reviewing. The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) provided criteria for the many awards the organization sponsors including Newbery, Caldecott, Sibert, and Giesel. ALSC was also a valuable resource for book lists. The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern Californian (ACLNC) offered book recommendations, programming ideas, general review guidelines plus diversity awareness review guidelines. Additional review guidelines and general information about children’s literature were found in Kathleen T. Horning’s book From cover to cover: Evaluating and reviewing children’s books and Donna E. Norton’s Through the eyes of a child: An introduction to children’s literature. Titlewave.com provided bibliographical information. Information about authors and illustrators, interviews, and reviews were harvested from the Internet.
When reviewing books, we addressed the success of the storyline and the fusion of text and illustration. We described the appearance including font and art medium and style. We also made an effort to describe the race, culture, skin color, and sexual orientation of characters if applicable in an effort to raise awareness of diversity in children’s literature.
We created the following rubric for consideration in the selection of materials.
Visitors to the site may browse books by title or by category. The categories, which represent the scope of children’s literature, make searching for specific topics easy. Titles were each assigned to at least one category, though a few span more than one. For example, some books are both graphic novels and wordless books; many classic titles also fall under picture books or easy readers.
We hope you enjoy exploring our Top 100 Books for Children blog.
We hope you enjoy exploring our Top 100 Books for Children blog.