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From picture books to chapter books, YA fiction and nonfiction, Nancy Pearl has developed more thematic lists of books to enjoy. The Book Lust audience is committed to reading, and here is a smart and entertaining tool for picking the best books for kids. Divided into three sections - Easy Books, Middle-Grade Readers, and Young Adult - Nancy Pearl makes wonderful reading connections by theme, setting, voice, and ideas. For horse lovers, she reminds us of the mainstays in the category (Black Beauty, Misty of Chincoteague, etc.) but then in a creative twist connects Mr. Revere and I to the list. In a list called Chapter One, she answers the proverbial question- which chapters books are the most compelling for kids who are now ready to move beyond picture books. And who says picture books aren't deep? Recommended Folk Tales sort out many of life's dilemmas and issues of good and bad; a selection of picture books on Death and Dying introduces this topic with sensitivity; and You've Got a Friend offers up books for early readers that show the complexities and the pleasures of relating to others. Parents, teachers, and librarians are often puzzled by the unending choices for reading material for young people. It starts when the kids are toddler and doesn't end until high-school graduation. What's good, what's trash, what's going to hold their interest? Nancy Pearl, America's favorite librarian, points the way in Book Crush.
Author Notes
Nancy Pearl is heard regularly on NPR's Morning Edition and is the recipient of the Women's National Book Association Award. She is retired from the Seattle Public Library but remains a popular speaker on books and reading. She lives in Seattle.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
The well-known adult readers' advisory expert attempts to extend her range into the world of youth. Immediately, quibbles arise. Why list only a few "Dragon Tales" for the middle readers, leaving out the dynamite series by Susan Fletcher, Jane Yolen, and Laurence Yep? Why isn't Ji-li Jiang's Red Scarf Girl listed in the section on memoirs for teens? Since Pearl mostly lists sequels when she mentions a title, did she really think that the sequel to Daniel Pinkwater's The Hoboken Chicken Emergency didn't deserve to be included? Why not point out the offensive qualities of Lynne Reid Banks's "The Indian in the Cupboard" series when you issue a caveat in your introduction about books published before 1960 having some offensive aspects for Native Americans? Why not include Jessica Haas and K. M. Peyton novels in the section on horses for middle readers along with old classics? Why are the teen "Queens of Fantasy" Mercedes Lackey and Tamora Pierce here, but not Anne McCaffrey? Why include M. T. Anderson's Feed in the section for middle readers? Many of the titles are old and out of print, which will ensure interlibrary loan in many locations. Among youth services professionals this volume will start lots of arguments and should be soon filled with sticky notes. Knowledgeable readers won't need it, but for those new to the field or who have a hard time thinking in readers' advisory categories, it could prove useful to get the juices flowing.-Carol A. Edwards, Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Pearl's latest offering is filled with more than 1,000 titles for kids of all ages, from babies to teens, and organized in three broad sections: Youngest Readers, Middle-Grade Readers, Ages 8-12, and Teen Readers, Ages 13-18. Each section is subdivided into a series of essays, which, just as in Pearl's Book Lust (2003), are organized in alphabetical order, from Adventure, Ahoy! to Witch Trials Salem and Beyond. Pearl's distinctive voice and style are evident in each brief, but engaging essay. A single, thorough index in the back of the book provides access for users looking for specific titles or authors. Aimed primarily at parents, librarians, and other adults looking for books for children, Book Crush is highly recommended for public libraries. Buy at least two copies, one for the librarians and one to circulate, as this will be in high demand with patrons and staff.--Moyer, Jessica Copyright 2007 Booklist
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. v |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Part I Youngest Readers | p. 1 |
| Ahh, Those Adorable Anthropomorphic Animals | p. 3 |
| B Is for Babies | p. 7 |
| Bedtime Stories | p. 9 |
| Boo! Halloween Books to Treasure | p. 11 |
| Books, Books, Books | p. 12 |
| The Cats Meow | p. 14 |
| Chapter 1 Good Books for the Youngest Readers | p. 18 |
| Christmas Is Coming | p. 20 |
| D Is for Dinosaurs | p. 22 |
| Death and Dying | p. 23 |
| A Dog's Life | p. 25 |
| Easy as 1,2,3: Counting Books | p. 27 |
| Fairy Tales (Fractured or Not) | p. 28 |
| Folk Tales | p. 33 |
| Girls Rule | p. 36 |
| Grandmas and Grandpas | p. 38 |
| Grin and Bear It! | p. 40 |
| Just for Fun | p. 42 |
| Latkes, Dreidels, and Lights | p. 46 |
| Let Me Introduce You To... | p. 47 |
| Many Cultures, Many Voices | p. 49 |
| Meet Mother Goose | p. 51 |
| Mind Your P's & Q's | p. 53 |
| Music to My Ears | p. 54 |
| Noodlehead Stories | p. 55 |
| One Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words | p. 57 |
| Picture Perfect | p. 58 |
| Quack Away | p. 60 |
| Reality Check | p. 62 |
| Rebels with a Cause | p. 64 |
| Rhyming Read-Alouds for the Very Young | p. 67 |
| School Daze | p. 68 |
| Simple as ABC | p. 71 |
| Stop Bugging Me: Insects Galore | p. 73 |
| Tall Tales | p. 75 |
| Thanks for Thanksgiving | p. 77 |
| Trickster Tales | p. 78 |
| Weather or Not | p. 80 |
| You've Got a Friend | p. 82 |
| Part II Middle-Grade Readers, Ages 8-12 | p. 85 |
| Adventure Ahoy! | p. 87 |
| All in the Family | p. 89 |
| Animal Tales | p. 92 |
| Author! Author! | p. 94 |
| Autobiographies | p. 95 |
| Before and After Harry (Potter, of Course) | p. 97 |
| Biographical Fiction | p. 99 |
| Boys Will Be Boys | p. 102 |
| Coming of Age | p. 105 |
| D@%! the Torpedoes, Full Steam Ahead | p. 107 |
| Dragon Tales | p. 110 |
| Dewey Love Nonfiction? Dewey Ever! | p. 111 |
| Doggone It, She Said Ho(a)rsely | p. 128 |
| Dolls and Dollhouses | p. 130 |
| Double Trouble | p. 134 |
| Friends Make the World Go Round | p. 135 |
| G and T's: Gifted and Talented | p. 137 |
| Girl Power! | p. 137 |
| Gone But Not Forgotten | p. 140 |
| Good Sports | p. 141 |
| Goosebumps | p. 145 |
| Greek Myths | p. 147 |
| Guaranteed to Grab You | p. 148 |
| Hickory, Dickory, Dock | p. 150 |
| "I" Books | p. 152 |
| In the Footsteps of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys | p. 154 |
| The Kids Next Door | p. 157 |
| Kids to the Rescue | p. 158 |
| King Arthur | p. 160 |
| Let's Talk About It | p. 163 |
| LOL: Laugh Out Loud | p. 164 |
| Melting Pots and Salad Bowls | p. 167 |
| Myths, Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales | p. 168 |
| Not a Dry Eye in the House | p. 171 |
| O Pioneers! | p. 173 |
| One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures (Or Something Like That) | p. 175 |
| Orphans Abounding | p. 176 |
| Other Times, Other Places | p. 178 |
| The Pleasures of Poetry | p. 180 |
| Real People You Ought to Know | p. 183 |
| Relativity | p. 185 |
| Science Fiction: Future Possibilities | p. 188 |
| Slavery and the Civil War | p. 189 |
| The Witch Trials-Salem and Beyond | p. 191 |
| Part III Teen Readers, Ages 13-18 | p. 193 |
| After Sam Spade and Kinsey Millhone | p. 195 |
| Always Short and Sometimes (But Usually Not) Sweet | p. 196 |
| Chicklet Lit: For Girls Only | p. 198 |
| Cry Me a River | p. 201 |
| Dragooned by Dragons | p. 202 |
| Fantastic Fantasies | p. 204 |
| Getting to Know Me: Memoirs | p. 205 |
| Ghosts I Have Loved | p. 208 |
| Girls Kick Butt | p. 209 |
| GLBTQ | p. 211 |
| Growing Up Is (Sometimes) Hard to Do | p. 213 |
| Heartbreak Hotel | p. 215 |
| Historical Fiction | p. 216 |
| Immigrants and Refugees | p. 220 |
| It Might as Well Be Greek | p. 221 |
| It's a Guy Thing | p. 223 |
| Kung Fu, the Samurai Code, and Ninja Stealth | p. 225 |
| May I Have This Dance? | p. 227 |
| Moving Up | p. 229 |
| Not Your Parents' Comic Books | p. 230 |
| One-Word Wonders | p. 233 |
| Our Love Is Here to Stay-Or Not | p. 236 |
| Page-Turning Pleasures | p. 237 |
| Play the Game | p. 239 |
| Poems as Novels and Novels as Poems | p. 240 |
| Queens of Fantasy | p. 242 |
| Shape Shifters | p. 244 |
| Sink Your Teeth into These | p. 245 |
| Slowly Unraveling | p. 247 |
| Smells Like Teen Nostalgia | p. 248 |
| Tam Lin | p. 251 |
| This Is My Life | p. 253 |
| Up All Night | p. 256 |
| Utopia-Not! | p. 258 |
| What'd I Do to Deserve This Biography? | p. 260 |
| Index | p. 263 |
