This sourcebook provides brief biographies of 65 popular children's nonfiction authors. Each profile focuses on how authors go about writing information books by giving a firsthand account of the challenges and rewards of nonfiction writing. Each biography provides a selected bibliography of the author's work, a photo, and a message to the student…

This bibliography is comprised of 54 annotations of library resource materials in the following areas: (1) "Locating Titles on a Theme/Literary Genre"; (2) "Identifying Titles for Reading Aloud"; (3) "Learning to Express Yourself: Puppetry, Reader's Theater, Storytelling"; (4) "Locating Information about Authors…

In the last decade the phenomenal growth of bilingual/bicultural programs for Spanish-speaking people has been accompanied by a critical need for learning materials which provide current, historically accurate, nonracist and nonstereotypic information on the contributions, heritage and current status of the various Spanish-speaking groups.…