Presents annotations and suggestions for curriculum use for 24 newly published trade books for children and adolescents that teachers find to be exceptional in curriculum use. Groups books into primary, intermediate, and advanced levels. (SR)

Offers annotations of 58 children's books about celebrations, ranging from large groups of people gathering for a day of festivities to special moments in a child's everyday life. (SR)

Describes what happened in an English-as-a-Second-Language classroom when the students were allowed to choose their own reading materials. (eight references) (GLR)

Discusses the interests and tastes secondary students have for nonfiction. Presents ways to incorporate nonfiction into read-aloud activities. Discusses 18 nonfiction books suitable for use in secondary read-aloud programs. (RS)

This article is for teachers who wish to introduce their advanced language students to literature but have not yet found an appropriate text. Five major reasons for choosing Georg Buchner's 1837 drama Woyzeck are given: the drama's brevity, uncomplicated language, contemporary relevance and the timelessness of its themes. (LET)

Reflects upon teachers' experiences in using core literature pieces to develop units of study. Raises concerns related to the weakly connected instructional activities generated in the planning of units focused on these teacher-selected literature works. Challenges educators to consider a process for developing conceptually related literature…

Identifies and annotates 111 outstanding tradebooks published for children and adolescents that children themselves recommend. Groups books by reading levels: all ages, younger readers, middle grades, and older readers. (MG)

Discusses the problem of censorship and offers 10 suggestions for educators who advocate the use of authentic texts in their classrooms. (MG)

Surveys 55 elementary teachers to determine whether experienced teachers exhibit the same attitudes in book selection for classroom use as those with less experience. Finds that teachers' selection of literature is a complicated, dense-layered activity which involves a multiplicity of factors. Finds an unconscious gender and racial bias in…

Contains a 30-item annotated bibliography of tradebooks which teachers' have identified as outstanding for kindergarten through grade 8 students and that teachers find to be exceptional in curriculum use. (MG)

Offers brief annotations of 68 children's picture books which all deal, in one way or another, with games and playing. (SR)

Examines the concepts of multicultural and multiethnic literatures and considers how educators can develop guidelines for selecting these materials for classroom use. Suggests how the discord surrounding these concepts can be alleviated. (HB)

Presents brief annotations of 26 picture books and chapter books especially liked by this column's editors but which have not fit into any of this year's earlier columns. (RS)

Presents elementary school teachers with 13 ideas on how to achieve a balanced "diet" in their primary and intermediate reading and writing programs using 5 different genres--artistic, personal, narrative, expository, and procedural. (BB)

Examines findings from a study of six elementary school cohorts designed to explore each cohort's attitudes toward reading, reading sources, and places at home where they read. Results indicate that the differences between boys and girls became progressively fewer as the age group increased. Implications for reading policy and practice are…