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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.