More Exciting, Funny, Scary, Short, Different, and Sad Books Kids Like About Animals, Science, Sports, Families, Song and Other Things

by Carroll, Frances Laverne; Meacham, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780838905852
• ISBN10: 0838905854
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-05-01
• Publisher: Amer Library Assn

Summary

Whether you're looking for innovative programming specialized literature resources, or suggestions on motivating young patrons to read, ALA Editions has something for you. With these authoritative selections, you can: -- Expand outreach to children with special needs and hard-to-reach public segments -- Create multicultural collections and programming -- Entertain children with top-notch programming material Annotates books selected in response to the most frequently made but sometimes vague requests librarians field from children. Subject categories include fiction and nonfiction books that are "skinny" and "gross", books on how to save the earth, and books where kids eat something "icky".

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
I Want a Twisted Folktale	1	(3)
I Like Stories with Computers in Them	4	(2)
Do You Have Any Books about Climbing a Tree?	6	(2)
Got Any Good Science Books? With Lots of Pictures?	8	(2)
Do You Have Any Books like The Baby-Sitters Club?	10	(3)
Where Can I Find Books about the People of Asia?	13	(5)
Do You Have Any Scary Books?
Funny and a Little Scary	15	(1)
Scary	16	(2)
I Want to Be Really Scared	18	(4)
Where Are the Dinosaur Books?	22	(4)
Do You Have Any Books about Birthdays?	26	(2)
I Only Want One That You Like	28	(3)
I Want a Story like Cinderella	31	(2)
Do You Have Any Books about Aliens?	33	(2)
Do You Have Any Pop-up Books?	35	(2)
I Want a Book about Kids Who Want to Write	37	(2)
I Want a Book about Ghosts or Ghosts and Kids	39	(3)
Do You Have Any Books about Indians?	42	(2)
I Need a Tall Tale	44	(15)
Where Are the Animal Books?
Animals	46	(2)
Bears	48	(1)
Cats	49	(2)
Cats and Kittens	51	(2)
Dragons	53	(2)
Pigs, Pigs, Pigs	55	(1)
Unicorns	56	(3)
I Like Trick Books	59	(3)
Do You Have Any Books like Shel Silverstein's?	62	(2)
I Want a Gross Book	64	(2)
Do You Have Any Books on How to Save the Earth?	66	(12)
I Want a Skinny Book
About Somebody Famous, Not Real Long	68	(2)
Good, Short Newbery Books	70	(1)
Short Ones	71	(2)
Short, Thin, About Anything	73	(1)
Skinny	74	(2)
Thin Classic	76	(2)
I Want a Book Where Disasters Happen	78	(2)
I Need to Do a Science Project	80	(2)
Where Are the Books with People and Things Hiding in the Pictures?	82	(2)
I Want a Book Where Kids Eat Something Icky	84	(8)
I Want a Funny Story
About School	86	(2)
Funny	88	(1)
Jokes	89	(1)
Super Funny	90	(2)
I Want a Book about Little People	92	(2)
I Don't Like to Read, But I Have to Do a Book Report	94	(2)
I Want That Story about How, in the End, They All Become Real	96	(2)
Do You Have Books on the Holocaust?	98	(17)
I Want a Book about Kids
At Home	100	(3)
In School	103	(3)
In Trouble	106	(2)
In Worse Trouble	108	(1)
Like Me	109	(3)
On Their Own	112	(3)
Do You Have Any Sports Books?	115	(10)
I Want a Story with History in It
About Colonial-Type Stuff	118	(1)
History in it	119	(2)
In Another Time	121	(2)
That Happened a Long Time Ago	123	(2)
I Need to Read an Autobibliography---You Know, a Book about a Person	125	(3)
I Want That Book about Things and People with Wings	128	(7)
I'd Like to Read a Chapter Book
Chapter Books	130	(2)
Real Chapter Books	132	(3)
I Want a Book about Boys and Girls	135	(14)
I Like Books That
Make Me Happy and Sad	138	(2)
Play With Words	140	(2)
Where Are the Books about
Ballet Dancers	142	(1)
Spaceships and Stuff	143	(1)
Summer Vacations	144	(2)
Trains	146	(3)
I Want an Adventure Story about a Modern Child Which Is Not a Mystery or a Fantasy or a Ghost Story or a Science Fiction Story or a War Story or Anything to Do with Sports	149	(2)
Do You Have Any Make-Believe Books?	151	(4)
I Have to Read a Biography at Least 150 Pages Long	155	(2)
I Want an Adventure Story Where the People Survive Danger	157	(2)
Do You Have Any Books Where the Toys Come Alive?	159	(2)
How Do You Draw Things?	161	(2)
I Want a Good Mystery to Solve	163	(3)
Where Are the Time Travel Books?	166	(2)
I Saw It. Do You Have the Book?	168	(3)
I Want Something Fun to Do!	171	(2)
I Need That One about When the Weather's All Messed Up	173	(2)
Do You Have That Book That Our Teacher Read to Us Last Week?	175	(4)
Author-Title Index	179	(12)
Subject Index	191