We read more than children's books here at BTSB! Though we don't sell the titles below, we do recommend them for your examination. Perhaps you would share with us your favorite books related to education, libraries or other topics of professional interest.

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The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E.B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic, by Michael Sims. Published by Walker Books, 2011. 320 pages.

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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains Nicholas Carr Published by W.W. Norton & Co Year: 2010 Pages: 280	What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read With Your Child and All the Best Times to Read Them Pam Allyn Published by Avery Trade Year: 2009 Pages: 336
A Family of Readers: The Book Lover’s Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Literature Roger Sutton and Martha Parravano Published by Candlewick Press Year: 2010 Pages: 368	The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing But the Seuss: a Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel Charles D. Cohen Published by Random House Year: 2004 Pages: 361
Waiting for "Superman" Davis Guggenheim Published by Paramount Vantage Year: 2010	Innovation & Imagination: The Story of Weston Woods John Cech Published by Scholastic Press Year: 2009 Pages: 175
Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy Leonard S. Marcus Published by Candlewick Press Year: 2009 Pages: 224	Twenty-first-century Kids, Twenty-first-century Librarians Virginia A. Walter Published by American Library Association Year: 2010 Pages: 104
Born Digital John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Published by Basic Books Year: 2008 Pages: 375	Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book Anita Silvey Published by Roaring Brook Press Year: 2009 Pages: 240
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books Kathleen T. Horning Published by HarperCollins Year: Revised Edition, 2010 Pages: 240	Minders of Make Believe Leonard S. Marcus Published by Houghton Mifflin Year: 2008 Pages: 402
Show & Tell Dilys Evans Published by Chronicle Books LLC Year: 2008 Pages: 143	Golden Legacy Leonard Marcus Published by Golden Books, Inc. Year: 2007 Pages: 245
Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade Linda Perlstein Published by Henry Holt Year: 2007 Pages: 302	Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939 Jacalyn Eddy Published by University of Wisconsin Press Year: 2006 Pages: 211
Library: An Unquiet History Mathew Battles Published by W.W. Norton & Co. Year: 2003 Pages: 227	Less is More: a Practical Guide to Weeding School Library Collections Donna J. Baumbach and Linda L. Miller Published by American Library Association Year: 2006 Pages: 194
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her Melanie Rehak Published by Harcourt Year: 2005 Pages: 364	Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About our Schools And Why It Isn't So. Jay P. Greene Published by Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Year: 2005 Pages: 267
Teacher Man Frank McCourt Published by Scribner Year: 2005 Pages: 258	The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators Anita Silvey (editor) Published by Houghton Mifflin Year: 2002 Pages: 542
Controversial Issues in School Librarianship: Divergent Perspectives Nancy Everhart Published by Linworth Year: 2003 Pages: 150	Why Read? Mark Edmundson Published by Bloomsbury Press Year: 2004 Pages: 143
Battling Corruption in America's Public Schools Lydia G. Segal Published by Northeastern University Press Year: 2004 Pages: 257	The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn Diane Ravitch Published by Knopf Year: 2003 Pages: 272
Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future Jason Epstein Published by W. W. Norton & Company Year: 2002 Pages: 204	Libraries in the Ancient World Lionel Casson Published by Yale University Press Year: 2001 Pages: 177
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever Mem Fox. Illustrated by Judy Horacek Published by Harcourt, Inc. Year: 2001 Pages: 156	Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Nicholson Baker Published by Random House Year: 2001 Pages: 270
Holiday House: the First Sixty-Five Years Russell Freedman and Barbara Elleman Published by Holiday House Year: 1985, revised edition 2000 Pages: 247	Tomie de Paola: His Art & His Stories Barbara Elleman Published by G.P. Putnam Sons Year: 1999 Pages: 189
Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope Jonathan Kozol Published by Crown Publishers Year: 2000 Pages: 375	Cataloging Correctly for Kids: An Introduction to the Tools. Fifth Edition. Sheila S. Intner, Joanna F. Fountain and Jean Weihs, editors Published by The American Library Association Year: 2010 Pages: 136
High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections Clifford Stoll, a Computer Contrarian Published by Doubleday Year: 1999 Pages: 214	Dear Genius: the Letters of Ursula Nordstrom Leonard S. Marcus (collector and editor) Published by HarperCollins Year: 1998 Pages: 406
Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey Wayne A. Wiegand Published by the American Library Association Year: 1996 Pages: 403	Among Schoolchildren Tracy Kidder Published by Houghton Mifflin Year: 1989 Pages: 331