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Have you ever stopped and really considered the importance that children’s books have on our lives, from childhood to adulthood? Who doesn’t remember the daunting tales of Dr. Seuss, Berenstain Bears, and Magic Tree House? These time honored stories provide an action plot filled with drama, popularity, and conflict while keeping a gentle undergrowth of awareness suited for the minds of these young readers. Whether you are reading to your children or they are reading for themselves, it is a great way to start off their scholastic adventure with a few memorable classics.

Randolph Caldecott Medal The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the most illustrious children’s picture book in America. These can include 3d “popup” books or regular story books with delicate images, usually filled with lots of colors and scenery. The 2008 winner of the Caldecott Medal is Brian Selznick with the release of his book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a story about a boy living in a French train station who strives to complete a mysterious invention left to him by his father. This story consists of over 500 pages of both text and images, neither of which can tell this story alone. Black and white pencil sketches show the silent films to which this book pays homage. It is a masterpiece and must be honored with such a fabulous award as the Caldecott Medal.

Crossing Stones is a coming-of-age story, a young adult novel by Helen Frost, an historical novel set in 1917 and also a verse novel, a novel written in verse.

A coming of age story about an African-American family in the 1960s and the impact that their mother's leaving the family and later becoming involved in the Black Panthers had on 11-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters.

Rapunzel's Revenge is a graphic novel for tweens and teens. Rapunzel's Revenge is a fractured fairy tale.

Learn about the Berenstain Bears Chrstian books and The Berenstain Bears movie. The Berenstain Bears children's books have delighted children for decades.

These children’s picture books will not only bring enjoyment to young children, but these children’s picture books would also make good Father’s Day gifts. Honor a beloved father on Father’s Day by giving him a children’s picture book that celebrates the bond between father and child.

The best illustrated children's books of 2009 range from a wordless picture book illustrated with watercolors and pencil to My People, a poetry book by Langston Hughes illustrated with magnificent photographs. Take a look at the cover art and get an idea of why I think My People and the other books on my list are the best illustrated children's books of 2009.

My best illustrated children's books of 2009 includes Duck! Rabbit! Take a look at the cover art of Duck Rabbit, read about the story and get an idea of why I think Duck! Rabbit!and the other books on my list are the best illustrated children's books of 2009.

Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series of books about middle school student Greg Heffley, also serve as the executive producer of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie. In this illustrated account of the making of the movie, Kinney provides a behind the scenes look at the casting and the making of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie and its relationship to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, the first book in the series

Here you will find information about the monthly calendars of children's books, which include kids' books about the seasons, holidays like Christmas, Passover and the Fourth of July, plus the birthdays of authors and illustrators of children's books.