This brief affordable straightforward book-packed with rich resources-is a true compendium of information about children's literature and how to use children's literature in the classroom. It is designed to awaken reawaken and motivate students to share literature with children. In clear concise direct narrative using recommended book lists examples figures and tables in combination with prose this book conveys the body of knowledge about children's literature and about teaching literature to children. The Seventh Edition of this best-selling book adds a new co-author Kathy G. Short to the well-known author team of Carol Lynch-Brown and Carl M. Tomlinson.