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ix Acknowledgments I continue to be grateful to have this opportunity to share my love of children’s literature through this book. This project is the fulfillment of a professional dream pulling together a lifetime of teaching and a multitude of favorite books and resources to help create and update this tool for librarians and future librarians. Once again, I am indebted to many others for their input, feedback, help and support. Thank you, dear friends: Motivating editors and fellow textbook writers: Blanche Woolls, Sharon Coatney, Rosemary Chance, and Rose Brock Talented authors and poets: Joyce Sidman, Pat Mora, Margriet Ruurs, Matt Cordell, J. Patrick Lewis, Erin Entrada Kelly, Kirby Larson, Grace Lin, Ashley Bryan, Seymour Simon, Denise Fleming, Janet Tashjian, Kristine O’Connell George, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Laurence Yep, T. A. Barron, and Janet Wong Kind colleagues and librarian contributors: Dean Schneider and Robin Smith, Horn Book, Marianne C. Wilson, Mary Ann Scheuer, Marc Aronson, Kiera Par- rott, Cynthia Alaniz, Emily Chasse, Hilary Haygood, Mia Steinkamp, Marlene Horsey, Marnie Cushing, Mary Burkey, Xelena Gonzalez, Zulema Bewley, Mary Buckalo, Tammy Korns, Susi Grissom, Barbara Kieran, and Elizabeth Murphy Loving and supportive friends and family: Susan Garner Janet Wong Lynn Akin Robert and Sophie Mergeler Ingrid Mergeler Alex Vardell and Melissa Stovall Emily Vardell and Brenda Linares and especially my endlessly patient husband, Russell Vardell Thank you, all! Sylvia