This one-session course offers a terrific opportunity to concentrate on excellent new books that can help provide such an environment. The newly published books for the youngest to be discussed by three children's literature experts include board books for babies and toddlers, concept books, first picture stories, and first read-alouds. Chosen from the American Library Association book awards and distinctions announced nationally less than two weeks earlier, the books reviewed will include the preschool books named by the Year 2001 Randolph Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Awards Committees and the Notable Children's Books Committee. Books selected by the 2001 CCBC Charlotte Zolotow Award Committee also will be discussed. This popular course is completely new every winter.
Participants receive lists of all books discussed.
Register by January 15 to get materials before the class. Here is a popular annual opportunity to find out about excellent recently published books for elementary school aged children. Books honored by the brand-new Robert F. Sibert Award for outstanding nonfiction will be discussed. The Year 2001 John Newbery, Mildred Batchelder, and Coretta Scott King Award winners and honor books will be featured along with selected Notable Children's Books, all announced at the American Library Association conference less than one month earlier. As time allows, selected books in the new, unpublished CCBC Choices 2001 will be discussed.