1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

by Eccleshare, Julia

• ISBN13: 9780789318763
• ISBN10: 0789318768
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-27
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

This is the best and most authoritative guide to classic and contemporary children's literature today. It is the latest in the best-selling 1001 series, and its informative reviews are the key to differentiating the "must-read" books from all the rest in the realm of children's books. Whether you are a parent seeking to instill a love of reading in your child, an educator or counselor looking for inspiration, or a young reader with a voracious appetite, this guide to the best writing for children and young adults covers the spectrum of children's literature. It is organized by age group - from board books to YA novels and all the gradations in between. Each entry features evaluations by a team of international critics complete with beautifully reproduced artwork from the featured title. The beloved classics are here, but the guide also takes a global perspective and includes the increasingly diverse contributions from African American and Latino authors and illustrators - not to mention important books from around the world.

Author Biography

Julia Eccleshare is a writer, broadcaster, and lecturer as well as Children's Books Editor of The Guardian. She has been an editor at Penguin/Puffin Books and at Hamish Hamilton and an editorial advisor to many other publishers including Cambridge University Press and Puffin Modern Classics. She has chaired the Nestlé Smarties Book Awards since 2001, and has served as a judge for the Branford Boase First Novel Prize and for the Whitbread Children's Book Prize. In 2000 she won the Eleanor Farjohn Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books. In addition to numerous anthologies, her books include, Treasure Islands: The Woman's Hour Guide to Children's Reading, A Guide to the Harry Potter Novels, Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers and, with Nicholas Tucker, The Rough Guide to Teenage Books. She lives in London.

Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful illustrators and children's authors. His first drawings were published in Punch when he was 16. He has illustrated over 300 books and taught at the Royal College of Art, where he was head of the Illustration Department until 1986. He has won many awards and prizes, and was appointed the first Children's Laureate in 1999. In 2005 he was made a Commander of the British Empire, on of Britain’s highest awards.