From Poe's tales of mystery and imagination to P.D. James's A Taste for Death, Keating delivers a highly-readable evaluation of the 100 authors and their masterpieces. This collection is a must for all devoted mystery readers.

Peter Boxall offers reviews, author biographies, plot and character assessments and historical information on those books he considers the most important, compelling, or simply the best fiction ever written.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, k, p, e, i, t.

In this newly revised edition of her successful guide, the children's books editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES recommends more than 1,700 new and classic books for every age group.

Includes 450 lesson plans for use with 90 titles. 450 all new teaching ideas using 90 more of the most popular children's books. 18 different curriculum units have been created, including Classics; Cats, Dogs, and Other Pets; Transportation ...

Designed to help both pre-service and in-service teachers recognize high quality and developmentally appropriate children's books to share with PreK-3 children, the major goal of this volume is to show how to use children's literature to ...

Devoted to those practitioners of the art of short fiction, this new 2nd edition offers thorough coverage of approximately 375 authors and 400 of their works.