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Picture Books

In Picture books at least half the content is illustrations, the pictures being at least as important as the text in conveying the book's message. Most Picture Books are short, usually 32 pages or less.
CLASSICS — Outstanding contributions to children's literature
POP-UP — Incorporates "paper engineering"

Fables are stories whose characters are usually animals, and that end in a moral meant to teach a lesson, such as Aesop's fable The Tortoise and the Hare. Folk Tales are stories that have been passed down within a culture through oral tellings and retellings, often by elders. The form in which they come to us is usually the consequence of their being collected and written down by scholars, the best example being the German stories, such as Hansel and Gretel collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century. Fairy Tales can be either Folk tales with fairies or other magical creaturesor events, such as Rumpelstiltskin, or other similar stories whose authorship is known, such as those written by Hans Christian Andersen or Oscar Wilde. Fables, Folk and Fairy Tales are found both in collections, often heavily illustrated, and individually in Picture Book format.
INDIVIDUAL STORIES
COLLECTIONS AND ANTHOLOGIES

Poetry that's as enjoyable as it is meaningful to young children.

Books whose limited vocabulary and simplified sentence structure allow children who are learning to read to practice with little or no help. Usually heavily illustrated, Beginning Readers come in a wide range of reading levels from simpple and repetetive word play of Hop on Pop to deeply moving, yet accessible stories of Cynthia Rylant's Henry and Mudge series.
ADVENTURE | MYSTERY | SCIENCE FICTION | FANTASY | HISTORICAL FICTION | SCARY STORIES | SPORTS FICTION | HUMOROUS FICTION | ANIMAL STORIES | CONTEMPORARY STORIES | ANTHOLOGIES

These books are the next step up from Beginning readers, forming a bridge to Chapter Books. Sometimes called Young Readers or junior chapter Books, these books are shorter, have shorter chapters, larger print and more illustrations than chapter books. They have simpler vocabulary and sentence structure and, themes and characters that appeal to 1st to 3rd graders.
ADVENTURE | MYSTERY | SCIENCE FICTION | FANTASY | HISTORICAL FICTION | SCARY STORIES | SPORTS FICTION | HUMOROUS FICTION | ANIMAL STORIES | CONTEMPORARY STORIES | ANTHOLOGIES

Chapter Books are full-length fictional works written for children, but usually without the limited vocabulary and simplified grammatical structure of beginning readers and beginning chapter books. Many classics of children's literature, such as Charlotte's Web or Beverly Cleary's Ramona books are chapter books.
ADVENTURE | MYSTERY | SCIENCE FICTION | FANTASY | HISTORICAL FICTION | SCARY STORIES | SPORTS FICTION | HUMOROUS FICTION | ANIMAL STORIES CONTEMPORARY STORIES | ANTHOLOGIES |

Books about real things, people, places, events, the arts, and things to do. This category includes most books normally classified in libraries as non-fiction.
SPORTS BIOGRAPHIES | HISTORY PEOPLE AND PLACES | SCIENCE AND NATURE | MUSIC AND THE ARTS | CRAFTS AND ACTIVITIES |

DICTIONARIES & THESAURUSES | ATLASES |
ENCYCLOPEDIAS & ALMANACS

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