The great diversity of materials, services and philosophies that make children's librarianship a vibrant, innovative, professonal area of interest is reflected in these selections. Broad in coverage, this anthology/text includes subjects such as child development, the historical background of children's librarianship, selection tools, public relations, volunteers, and most other topics of interest to professional librarians, library-school students, teachers and school media specialists. In addition to several articles published here for the first time, the Reader also includes 19th century illustrations from St Nicholas Magazine.