•Ask the children's librarian at your local library and children's booksellers for good ideas and for book lists. Bring your child to story times.
•Sign up with an online bookseller to receive new children's book announcements or take advantage of notification services.
•Ask friends, family, neighbors, teachers, colleagues, other children, the person in line next to you at the children's museum, or anyone and everyone you meet for their favorite books or a title of a great new book.
•Read book reviews in newspapers, parenting magazines, and on many online bookseller Web sites.
•Watch for announcements each summer in the media, at bookstores, or ask in the library when the American Library Association announces it's yearly books awards.
Books and booklists to help you choose children's books:
•THE READ-ALOUD HANDBOOK, 5th Ed. by Jim Trelease, Penguin, 2001.
•THE FIELD GUIDE TO PARENTING by Shelley Butler & Deb Kratz, Chandler House Press, 2000. Look for the extensive booklist, The Field Guide Children's Book Shelf, in "Reading and Books," and suggestions of children's books by topic in each chapter.
•THE NEW YORK TIMES PARENT'S GUIDE TO THE BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN by Eden Ross Lipson, Three Rivers Press, 2000.
Help online for finding good children's books:
•"100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know" from the New York Public Library.
•"75 Authors and Illustrators Everyone Should Know" by Bernice E. Cullinan for the 75th Anniversary of Read Across America in 1994.
•Children's Book Council a prestigious authority on children's books and terrific reading resource for kids of all ages.
