Professional reading

Being relatively new to the CYS community, I had always wondered what the other CYS people read, how did they get to be so smart? So I asked. I issued a posting to the ALIACYS e-list and the influx of emails shocked me. I found it interesting in the amount of overlap that formed the core collection. Thank you to every one who responded. The resulting was the following compilation of titles, periodicals and books.

Alexander Mills
ALIA CYSnsw Secretary
September 2006

Australian publications:

Reading magic: how your child can learn to read before school and other read-aloud miracles / Mem Fox; illustrations by Judy Horacek

Boys and books: building a culture of reading around our boys / James Moloney; with illustrations by Cathy Wilcox

The reading bug: and how you can help your child to catch it / Paul Jennings; illustrations by Andrew Weldon

Good Reading
An Australian independent monthly magazine targeting book lovers
http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/

Incite
A monthly news magazine for the library and information sector in Australia
http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/

Magpies: Talking About Books for Children
A bi-monthly magazine with reviews articles and interviews based on children's and YA literature
http://www.magpies.net.au/

Reading Time
The quarterly journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia
http://www.cbc.org.au/readtime.htm

SCAN
A quarterly journal produced by the NSW Department of Education and Training
http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/schoollibraries/scan/

The Literature Base
Published four times a year, and contains practical ideas for using books with children
http://www.magpies.net.au/

Viewpoint: On Books For Young Adults
University of Melbourne's quarterly publication dealing with YA literature
http://extranet.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/LLAE/viewpoint/index.shtml

Overseas publications:

Caroline Feller Bauer's new handbook for storytellers: with stories, poems, magic, and more / Caroline Feller Bauer; illustrations by Lynn Gates Bredeson

Children and books / Zena Sutherland & May Hill Arbuthnot

Bookbird
A refereed journal published quarterly by the International Board on Books for Young People
http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=276

Booklist
The American Library Association's Booklist is published 22 times a year
http://www.ala.org/booklist/

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
An American children's book review journal for school and public librarians
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/

Horn Book Magazine
A Bi-monthly guide to children's and YA literature
http://www.hbook.com/

Library Journal
Covers a broad range of issues
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/

Publishers' Weekly
http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/

School Library Journal http://slj.reviewsnews.com/

VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates
http://www.voya.com/

When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched.
But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
Henry Miller