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JUDY FREEMAN (
www.JudyReadsBooks.com), ReadKiddoRead reviewer, is a well-known consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature, storytelling, and all aspects of librarianship. She is a visiting lecturer at the School of Information, and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she teaches courses on children's literature and storytelling. Judy served as a member of the 2000 Newbery Committee and the 2008 Sibert Committee. Judy's book,
Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6 (Libraries Unlimited, 2007), won the 2009 Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Award. Her mega-books,
Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 (2006) and its popular companions
Books Kids Will Sit Still For: The Complete Read-Aloud Guide (1990), and
More Books Kids Will Sit Still For (1995), are indispensable resources for literature-based classrooms and libraries. Judy's latest edition of her yearly
The Winners! Handbook (Libraries Unlimited, 2010), reviewing her top 100 children's books of the past year, was published in Spring, 2010.