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 Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, by Amanda Ripley. Published by Simon & Schuster, 2013. 320 pages. |
Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits Donalyn Miller with Susan Kelley Published by Jossey-Bass Year: 2013 Pages: 304 | Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library Joseph Janes Published by The Scarecrow Press Year: 2013 Pages: 161 |
One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined Salman Khan Published by Hachette Book Group Year: 2012 Pages: 259 | Children's Book-a-Day Almanac Anita Silvey Published by Roaring Brook Press Year: 2012 Pages: 400 |
Picturing the World: Informational Picture Books for Children Kathleen T. Isaacs Published by ALA Editions Year: 2012 Pages: 216 | Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices Leonard S. Marcus Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Year: 2012 Pages: 384 |
How Children Succeed Paul Tough Published by Houghton Miffin Year: 2012 Pages: 197 | Show Me a Story: Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators Leonard S. Marcus Published by Candlewick Press Year: 2012 Pages: 293 |
Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back Robert Levine Published by Doubleday Year: 2011 Pages: 320 | The Death & Life of the Great American School System: How Testing & Choice are Undermining Education Diane Ravitch Published by Basic Books Year: 2010 Pages: 334 |
Robert McCloskey: A Private Life in Words and Pictures Jane McCloskey Published by Smith/Kerr Associates Year: 2011 Pages: 256 | The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic Michael Sims Published by Walker Books Year: 2011 Pages: 320 |
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 | 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 |
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