This standard professional handbook offers comprehensive, thoroughly annotated lists of the best children's books of 2010, plus lesson plans, teacher's guides, stories, songs, and Internet resources. The WINNERS! Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman's Top-Rated Children's Books of 2010 is built around a list of the 100 best books of the year. Each entry includes a meaty and thoughtful annotation, a germ (a series of practical, pithy ideas for reading, writing, and illustrating prompts and other activities across the curriculum), a useful list of exemplary related titles, and subject designations to help you ascertain where the book might fit thematically into your curricular plan or program. Like all of the previous editions, this book provides scores of useful and fun ideas, activities, lessons, and ways to incorporate literature into every aspect of your day. From story hour to curriculum tie-ins, the many connections here include everything from strategies for comprehension to games, crafts, songs, creative drama, booktalking, and more. Judy Freeman is a well-known consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature and storytelling, and a visiting lecturer at the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York, NY. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the United States and the world for teachers, librarians, parents, and children, and is a national seminar presenter for BER (Bureau of Education and Research). Freeman served as a member of the Newbery Committee to select the Newbery Award book for the year 2000 and was on the Sibert Committee for 2008. Her published works include Libraries Unlimited's Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama ; Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6 ; the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series; and the yearly The Winners Handbook , reviewing her top 100 children's books of the past year. Judy's latest and most exciting project is writing children's book reviews and other content for author James Patterson's new website for parents, librarians, and teachers, www.READKIDDOREAD.com. Her website is at www.JudyReadsBooks.com. Used Book in Good Condition