Literature For Young Children: Supporting Emergent Literacy, Ages 0-8, 6/e  is written for early childhood teachers and childcare professionals to help them learn to recognize high-quality children's literature and effectively use it to support emerging literacy development in preschool and primary-age children.  It not only exposes the literary merits of eary childhood literature, but also explains how to use children's literature as a teaching tool, offering a myriad of developmentally appropriate strategies for sharing literature with young children.