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The book was listed as one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. [13] As of 2013, it ranked 21st on a Goodreads list of "Best Children's Books." [14] The book is praised by many parents and school teachers, many of whom requested a trade edition of the book from the publisher. [8]
Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild. Miss Rumphius was inspired by a real-life ...
In the 2007 online "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" poll by the National Education Association, the book came in third. [8] It was 85th of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. [9] Scholastic Parent & Child magazine placed it #9 on its list of "100 Greatest Books for Kids" in 2012. [10] As of ...
In 2007, Head, Body, Legs was chosen as the "We Share a Story" book of the year, to be read in 23 countries on 6 continents. [20] After hearing the story, children in each country decorated and cut out body part pieces that will be brought together to make paper people with parts from different countries and sent back to the children’s schools.
In addition to writing children's literature, the authors Stan and Jan Berenstain also wrote three books that feature the Berenstain Bears: two parenting books, What Your Parents Never Told You About Being a Mom or Dad (1995) and The Berenstain Bears and the Bear Essentials (2005), and their autobiography, Down a Sunny Dirt Road (2002).
Both books are non-fiction children's picture books about real animals, with Christian, the Hugging Lion telling the story of Christian the lion. [13] In one challenge relating to the genre of the book, And Tango Makes Three was moved from the children's section to the adult non-fiction section in public libraries in Savannah and St. Joseph ...
It was one of the few picture books to place on the list. [20] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". [21] Five years later, a School Library Journal survey of readers named The Very Hungry Caterpillar as the second-best children's book. [5]
In 1994, Broderbund produced a supplementary set for teachers called the Living Books Framework, featuring integrated teaching material for each of the first four Living Books titles for $489.95 including the Living Books CD-ROMs; presented in a three-ring binder, they featured the original picture storybooks, several other books, and a tape of ...