Join in a jubilant celebration of the Children's Choices project as the authors follow its 25-year evolution from a basic list of tested books for classroom use, to a rich literary resource sought after by educators, librarians, administrators, parents, caregivers, and everyone else who encourages children to read for pleasure. You'll learn how the development of the Choices project - a partnership between the Children's Book Council and the International Reading Association - has mirrored developments in children's literacy instruction and research. And you'll gain new insights into how to use these children's favorites in your classroom, with activity-based chapters that group sample titles by grade levels and reflect the authors' actual classroom observations. Find out how you can support the original goal set by the Children's Choices Project more than a quarter of a century ago: to bring children and books together.