100 Best Books for Children

Author - Anita Silvey ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Houghton Mifflin was reviewed on 30-Jul-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book 100 Best Books for Children by Houghton Mifflin. Book arrived on time, and was in very good condition.¤

2) Hardcover Book 100 Best Books for Children by Houghton Mifflin. Anita Silvey has done a good job dedicating her efforts to cataloguing some of the best available fiction for children and young adults. With the words "classic" and "great" being meaninglessly slung around with little quality to back them other than a healthy ambition for profit and fame, it´s important to appreciate those qualified to review fiction and give it the benefit of cultural value. This is a labor of love put together with generations of the future in mind to honor the age-old concept of legacy and offer great reading from authentic authors.¤

3) Hardcover Book 100 Best Books for Children by Houghton Mifflin. This book makes a fun gift for new parents, who sometimes need to be reminded about the classics from their childhood, as well to learn about the books published since they were kids. Like anyone who is passionate about children´s literature, I have my own opinions about the books that should be listed in the top 100 and I disagree with some of the author´s selections. But, I think the real value of this book is the short essays about the background behind the classic children´s books we know and love. I didn´t know, for example, that Ezra Jack Keats´s "The Snowy Day" was controversial when it was published for his use of an African-American protagonist. So, my recommendation of this book is based less on its function as a list and more as interesting background for people interested in children´s lit.¤

4) Hardcover Book 100 Best Books for Children by Houghton Mifflin. Silvey´s book gives lots of wonderful books, lots and lots of books, but little concept of why (on an objective standard) she chose these books. For example why choose Roald Dahl´s BFG rather than his more renowned CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY? Why did she exclude WHOSE MOUSE AM I, the MISS PICKERELL books, ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN? Where are the Scott Corbett, Bruce Coville, and Jay Williams classics? How can one compile a "Best" list of children´s books without HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS or any Judy Blume book? Very few books on her list come from African-American (bell hooks, Irene Smalls), Asian American (Taro Yashima), or Latino American (Harriet Rohmer) authors.

Hopefully when she updates this book she will make it more multi-cultural, historically respectful, and more objectively evaluated. Should you buy it? Absolutely! It possesses some EXCELLENT books, but you should not make it your only book of this type.¤

5) Hardcover Book 100 Best Books for Children by Houghton Mifflin. Yes, the list of books may seem unimaginative, and yes, she may not have your favorite book on the list (FYI, The Big Orange Splot is the best picture book ever written, and it is not in there) BUT it is still a useful book. I shared it with a young kindergarten teacher I know; she had never heard of Ferdinand or some of the other older books.
Obviously, this is not the one essential book to take to your desert island, but I find it useful as a parent/teacher/librarian to go along with my Jim Trelease books, Esme Codell´s How to Get Your Child to Love Reading, and other resources.¤

6) Hardcover Book 100 Best Books for Children by Houghton Mifflin. By selecting only 100 "best books" Anita Silvey distinguishes her guide from all the others and makes it possible to give young readers their literary heritage in the childhood years.
The books we hear or read when we are children stay with us all our lives. If we miss them when we are young, we´ll miss them forever: no Hungry Caterpillar, no Winn-Dixie, no Roll of Thunder. As adults we remember a few familiar favorites, but no one but an expert like Anita Silvey, with her thirty-five years at the heart of children´s book publishing, could put together an authoritative list like this one. Parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, and bookstore clerks will feel completely comfortable recommending these books for any child, from infancy to almost-teens. Silvey includes, in addition to the 100 best, extensive lists of books to meet special needs and interests as well as classics, selected by age, to round out this extraordinarily useful work.
In addition to giving an age range and the plot of each book, Silvey relates the fascinating, often hilarious story behind the story, something only an insider in the field of children´s publishing could tell. 100 Best Books for Children is as much fun to read as it is helpful.¤

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