Exploring the Literature of Fact: Children's Nonfiction Trade Books in the Elementary Classroom Book

Not as valuable as some other librarian books. It is very interesting to see Edwards talking about how few adults read books at all - going back 50 years. Good information on book talks, etc. but I fear with ready access to video games and the online world in general, even such well-prepared exhortations would fall upon deaf ears. Also interesting to see how Edwards writes off library instruction for a good portion of the student population. Only the college-bound need it in her opinion. All others should instead get more attention in terms of readers' advisory. Some will likely see this as discriminatory.

Also, I see that the "young adult" label was in very common use going back at least to the 1950s. Some wet-behind-the-ears types want to rewrite history to say that it only came into the world with S. E. Hinton in 1967.