The Picture Book Almanac: Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays

This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year—even "holidays" you've never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers.

• Includes more than 365 recommended picture books selected for their genuine worth as well as for their diversity

• Offers fun, quick, and easily completed activities coordinated to daily holidays throughout the year

• Provides a useful resource for anyone who works with young children in schools, public libraries, or in the home, for those new to picture books and experienced veterans alike

• Helps educators to stress the joy of reading and enable students to learn new and interesting things every day of the year