Guide to Collective Biographies for Children and Young Adults

As a youth services librarian for 20 years Sue Barancik is well aware of what makes a good reference book – meeting researchers' needs and ease of use. In her Guide to Collective Biographies for Children and Young Adults she demonstrates her knowledge of both of these areas by crafting a book that is incredibly useful and easy to use. She explains in the preface that children are frequently required to gather biographical material on prominent figures for school projects and that this material is often best located in the collective biographies that can be found in many school and...