JUDY FREEMAN (www.JudyReadsBooks.com) is a well-known consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature and storytelling, and a visiting lecturer at the School of Information, and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York City. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the U.S. and the world for teachers, librarians, parents, and children, and is a national seminar presenter for BER (Bureau of Education and Research). Freeman served as a member of the Newbery Committee to select the Newbery Award book for the year 2000 and was on the Sibert Committee for 2008. Freeman's Library Unlimited books include Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6, the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, and the yearly The Winners Handbook, reviewing her top 100 children's books of the past year. Judy's latest and most exciting project is writing children's book reviews and other content for author James Patterson's new website for parents, librarians, and teachers, www.READKIDDOREAD.com.
?Drawing on her years of experience as librarian and storyteller,
Freeman offers practical suggestions for numerous literature-based
activities to enrich the language arts curriculum.?-School Library
Journal
?Liberally sprinkled with titles, chock full of ideas and
supplemented with high-quality bibliographies...librarians will
find helpful and few children will be able to resist.?-Booklist
?What distinguishes this volume and its previous companion work
from other similar compilations are the refreshing, enticing
annotations. Their originality and citations to additional related
works leave no doubt that Freeman has read and probably used each
title in a read-aloud, workshop, or booktalk session. Her '50 Ways
to Recognize a Read-Aloud' constitutes an almost guaranteed basis
for acquisitions that are certain to be borrowed by users of any
age. Librarians, teachers, and parents who work with children
should consider this a mandatory purchase. It succeeds in
furnishing not only a list of new materials, but even more
important, the methods and programs to bring literature to
life.?-ARBA
"Drawing on her years of experience as librarian and storyteller,
Freeman offers practical suggestions for numerous literature-based
activities to enrich the language arts curriculum."-School Library
Journal
"Liberally sprinkled with titles, chock full of ideas and
supplemented with high-quality bibliographies...librarians will
find helpful and few children will be able to resist."-Booklist
"What distinguishes this volume and its previous companion work
from other similar compilations are the refreshing, enticing
annotations. Their originality and citations to additional related
works leave no doubt that Freeman has read and probably used each
title in a read-aloud, workshop, or booktalk session. Her '50 Ways
to Recognize a Read-Aloud' constitutes an almost guaranteed basis
for acquisitions that are certain to be borrowed by users of any
age. Librarians, teachers, and parents who work with children
should consider this a mandatory purchase. It succeeds in
furnishing not only a list of new materials, but even more
important, the methods and programs to bring literature to
life."-ARBA
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