More Books Kids Will Sit Still For: A Read-Aloud Guide - Perfect for Storytime, Classroom Reading & Bedtime Stories

I stumbled into a later volume of this series (Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)) while working my way through books about books for children at the library. We read to the toddler daughter daily and I am always looking for new picture books to try. I was amazed and delighted by volume 3 and promptly went looking for the previous two volumes which older books. I still can't believe that the ex-library copy I bought looks like it was never cracked open.Freeman begins this volume with about 100 pages mostly about building elementary school library programs. I'm a parent, not a librarian, so this was less applicable to me (though at times still quite interesting). I bought the book, however, for the annotated bibliography of read alouds. The fiction section is divided into overlapping sections based on suggested age, an organization that's more useful to me than having all fiction lumped together. Although the recommended age for the preschool section (61 titles) is 3-4, some of the books there are already favorites of my 19-month-old daughter and we look forward to trying others. It's wonderful to have additional title suggestions. Most of us think to look for more books by an author and we also look for more books by illustrators that we like (sometimes discovering new authors that way) but themed suggestions are always appreciated.I'm delighted to have discovered this resourse. It's going on my shelf next to Trelease and Odean.