Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Youngest readers: Ahh, those adorable anthropomorphic animals -- B is for babies -- Bedtime stories -- Boo! Halloween books to treasure -- Books, books, books -- Cat's meow -- Good books for the youngest readers -- Christmas is coming -- D is for dinosaurs -- Death and dying -- Dog's life -- Easy as 1,2,3: Counting books -- Fairy tales (fractured or not) -- Folk tales -- Girls rule -- Grandmas and grandpas -- Grin and bear it! -- Just for fun -- Latkes, dreidels, and lights -- Let me introduce you to ... -- Many cultures, many voices -- Meet Mother Goose -- Mind your Ps and Qs -- Music to my ears -- Noodlehead stories -- One picture is worth a thousand words -- Picture perfect -- Quack away -- Reality check -- Rebels with a cause -- Rhyming read-alouds for the very young -- School daze -- Simple as ABC -- Stop bugging me: Insects galore -- Tall tales -- Thanks for Thanksgiving -- Trickster tales -- Weather or not -- You've got a friend -- Part II: Middle-grade readers, ages 8-12: Adventure ahoy! -- All in the family -- Animal tales -- Author! Author! -- Autobiographies -- Before and after Harry (Potter, of course) -- Biographical fiction -- Boys will be boys -- Coming of age -- D@%! the torpedoes, full steam ahead -- Dragon tales -- Dewey love nonfiction? Dewey ever! -- Doggone it, she said ho(a)rsely -- Dolls and dollhouses -- Double trouble -- Friends make the world go round -- G and T: Gifted and talented -- Girl power! -- Gone but not forgotten -- Good sports -- Goosebumps -- Greek myths -- Guaranteed to grab you -- Hickory, dickory, dock -- "I" books -- In the footsteps of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys -- Kids next door -- Kids to the rescue -- King Arthur -- Let's talk about it -- LOL: Laugh out loud -- Melting pots and salad bowls -- Myths, legends, folk and fairy tales -- Not a dry eye in the house -- O pioneers! -- One word is worth a thousand pictures (or something like that) -- Orphans abounding -- Other times, other places -- Pleasures of poetry -- Real people you ought to know -- Relativity -- Science fiction: Future possibilities -- Slavery and the Civil War -- Witch trials--Salem and beyond -- Part III: Teen readers, ages 13-18: After Sam Spade and Kinsey Millhone -- Always short and sometimes (but usually not) sweet -- Chicklet lit: For girls only -- Cry me a river -- Dragooned by dragons -- Fantastic fantasies -- Getting to know me: Memoirs -- Ghosts I have loved -- Girls kick butt -- GLBTQ -- Growing up is (sometimes) hard to do -- Heartbreak hotel -- Historical fiction -- Immigrants and refugees -- It might as well be Greek -- It's a guy thing -- Kung Fu, the Samurai Code, and Ninja Stealth -- May I have this dance? -- Moving up -- Not your parents' comic books -- One-word wonders -- Our love is here to stay--or not -- Page-turning pleasures -- Play the game -- Poems as novels and novels as poems -- Queens of fantasy -- Shape shifters -- Sink your teeth into these -- Slowly unraveling -- Smells like teen nostalgia -- Tam Lin -- This is my life -- Up all night -- Utopia-not! -- What'd I do to deserve this biography? -- Index.