Presentation for Collection Management class on Selection Tools for purchasing children's series fiction. Presented in LIS 748, Spring 2011.

1. Selection tools for children's series Mary Jo Chrabasz LIS 748 01 Spring 2011

3. Edward Stratemeyer begins his "syndicate" in 1903, creating over 800 books for children under 13 different pen names and using a group of authors to write the titles

4. In the last decade of the 19 th century, an average of 403 books for children published per year. This average increases to 548 per year from 1900-1910 and by 1950 is up to an average of 1,113 books for children per year

6. Children look for adventure in their fiction

7. Contemporary settings are preferred to historical settings

8. Medal-winning books tend to have a more difficult style of writing, series books are more readable

9. Realistic plots – children like to read stories they could picture happening to them

11. School Library Journal http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com

12. Publisher's Weekly http://www.publishersweekly.com

13. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books http://bccb.lis.illinois.edu

14. Booklist http://www.booklistonline.com

16. Kids Reads http://www.kidsreads.com/series/index.asp

17. Children's books and reviews http://www.childrensbooksandreviews.com/

18. Scholastic Book Wizard http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/

19. NoveList K-8 Plus (subscription database)

21. Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com

22. Great Websites for Kids http://www.ala.org/greatsites (from ALSC)

23. Junior Genreflecting: A Guide to Good Reads and Series Fiction for Children by Bridget Dealy Volz, Cheryl Perkins Scheer, & Lynda Blackburn Welborn

24. Reading in Series: A Selection Guide to Books for Children edited by Catherine Barr

27. Little House on the Prairie series

28. Chronicles of Narnia

29. Nancy Drew

30. Hardy Boys

31. Babysitter's Club

32. Goosebumps

33. Wrinkle in Time series

34. Boxcar Children

36. Horrible Harry

37. Junie B. Jones

38. American Girls

39. Encyclopedia Brown

40. Arthur

41. Cam Jansen

42. Nate the Great

43. Judy Moody

45. Harry Potter

46. Guardians of Ga'Hoole

47. Percy Jackson

48. 39 Clues

49. Time Warp Trio

50. Charlie Bone

51. Geronimo Stilton

52. Series of Unfortunate Events

53. Resources Booklist online. http://booklistonline.com/ (accessed 4/27, 2011). Bulletin of the center for children's books. http://bccb.lis.illinois.edu/ (accessed 4/27, 2011). Children's books and reviews. http://www.childrensbooksandreviews.com/ (accessed 4/27, 2011). Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/ (accessed 4/27, 2011). The horn book, inc. http://hbook.com/ (accessed 4/27, 2011). Kidsreads.com - series books. http://kidsreads.com/series/index.asp (accessed 4/27, 2011). Kirkus book reviews. http://www.kirkusreviews.com/ (accessed 4/27, 2011). Publisher's weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/home/index.html (accessed 4/27, 2011). School library journal. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/ (accessed 4/27, 2011). Teacher book wizard. Scholastic. http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do (accessed 4/27, 2011). Great websites for kids. http://www.ala.org/greatsites (accessed 4/27, 2011). Book selection tools on the internet. http://fortsmithlibrary.org/irbooksel.html (accessed 4/27, 2011). World of reading. http://worldreading.org/ (accessed 4/27, 2011). Reading in series: A selection guide to books for children1999. . Ed. Catherine Barr. New Providence, New Jersey: R.R. Bowker. Deane, Paul. 1991. Mirrors of american culture: Children's fiction series in the twentieth century . Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc. Saltman, Judith. 1997. Groaning under the weight of series books. Emergency Librarian 24, no. 5: 23, http://ezproxy.dom.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lih&AN=9707034205&site=ehost-live&scope=site. Volz, Bridget Dealy, Cheryl Perkins Scheer, and Lynda Blackburn Welborn. 2000. Junior genreflecting: A guide to good reads and series fiction for children . Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc.