What Makes a Children's Book a Classic? - Classic Picture Books
Your Preschooler Will Love - Explore: Children's Book Titles and
Games About Adventure - Uri Shulevitz: Biography and Book
Recommendations - Questions Parents Ask About Young Children's
Reading Behaviors - Arnold Lobel: A Children's Author Who Got it
Right - Magazines for Children Ask any adult what authors they
most loved as a child, and odds are you'll hear the same names
over and over again: Beatrix Potter. Dr. Seuss. Maurice Sendak.
Laura Ingalls Wilder. In fact, the odds are good your child has
a few of these authors' works on his or her shelf right now. Why
is it that some books become timeless favorites, destined to be
read and re-read, while others get set aside after the first
cursory glance? And how can parents predict what kids will love?
Well, first of all, it's not as impossible a task as you might
think. Picking winners is far from random. According to Philip
Nel, Director of the Program in Children's Literature at Kansas
State Univ