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Children’s Literature Gems: Choosing and Using Them in Your Library Career


With Betsy Bird’s strong passion for children’s books and the profession, she will help readers and colleagues:

 

  • Build and manage their children’s collection.
  • Strike a balance between award winners and classics.
  • Arrange the children’s section to best showcase and display books.
  • Review the basics of storytime, storytelling and booktalking.
  • Add the 100 children’s books that belong in every library.

 

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CHILDREN’S LITERATURE GEMS: CHOOSING AND USING THEM IN YOUR LIBRARY CAREER
By Betsy Bird


PRAISE

“Master the huge array of quality children’s books from the past and the present with this must-have resource from children’s librarian Elizabeth Bird.”
—Amazon

ISBN-13: 9780838909959 / 136 pages
ISBN-10: 0838909957

    Ages: 14–up
    Publisher: ALA Editions
    Author’s agent: Stephen Barbara, InkWell Management

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