Literacy and leveled reading -- for schools
Finding books and making lists of them:
Recommended books:
Series information:
Compare prices, new/used, around the world -- and buy them, if you want:
As promised, here the contact details of 2 of my regular suppliers:
Mavis Siregar
Book Bait
55 Seletar Hills Drive
Singapore 807070
Tel/Fax: 64810140
Mobile: 97464749
Email: mavissiregar@yahoo.com
Mr MC Tong
Teamway Enterprises Pte. Ltd.
102F, Pasir Panjang Road
#08-10, Citilink Warehouse Complex
Singapore 118530.
Tel: 62712164
Fax: 62718791
Mobile: 96864647
Email: teamway_enterprises@yahoo.com
They are both quite prompt and responsible. Mavis supplies most of my fictions and some non-fict titles. Mr Tong supplies most of my IB materials and also other materials. Mavis is now retired from NLB and does some bookselling now. She used to select for NLB – she was with NLB for over 30 years and is very experienced and good selector.
Local suppliers of magazines:
Recommendations
Annual:
- ALA
- Notable Trade Books for Young People -- National Council for the Social Studies
- Outstanding Science Trade Books for K-12 -- National Science Teachers Association
- Poetry books -- Children's Book Council
Summary:
- Graphic Novels for young people -- PDF -- Children's Book Council (2006)
Cynthia Leitich Smith's Multicultural Recommendations
General resources:
- Children's Book Council
- Publishers' catalogs online -- several major educational ones available from a webpage on School Library Journal (USA)
Suppliers:
- Titlewave is a (free) database of books suitable for school libraries.
- Amazon: USA
- Powells is a famous bookstore in the northwest which sells both new and used books in their stores.
- Bookcloseouts is a bargain bookseller which often has hardcover editions heavily discounted, especially when the paperback edition has just been published; particularly good for children’s books.
- Shen's Books -- specializing in multicultural books
Magazines:
Recommendations
Suppliers:
- List of school library suppliers by the Rotherham Borough
- Amazon: UK
- Letterbox Library, a non-profit workers co-operative dedicated to providing multicultural and non-sexist books for children.
Recommendations:
- Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge booklists - 2008 - The Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge booklists have been updated for 2008 Challenge. Additions have been made to the lists for Prep to Year 2, Year 3 and 4 and Year 5 and 6. There is now a list for Year 7 and 8, and a list for Year 9 and 10.
Suppliers:
- Gleebooks
- Austral Ed -- specializes in educational and children’s books related to the PYP and global awareness.
- Pegi Williams
Recommendations
Suppliers:
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Suppliers
Magazine vendors:
magazinecity.com -- from the US
Mags4Kidz -- in Singapore -- they offer all the Cobblestone Press magazines , e.g., Muse, Calliope, Cobblestone...