As a member of SCBWI I receive their bulletin and read it cover to cover. In the December/January issue they featured a column of "Needed Subjects." It lists requests by students, parents, teachers and librarians for books dealing with a particular subject. I put in a call to the Mt. Lebanon Library to get Katie McGuinley, the children's librarian, her suggestions for needed and most-requested subjects.
Picture Books:
Improving social skills such as sharing, friends, controlling temper and sibling rivalry, children confronting special needs such as being confined to a wheelchair
Nonfiction:
Endangered animals, gross animals and insects, environmental topics such as going "green" and recycling, also visits to the doctor and dentist
Biographies:
Presidents-current and past, sport stars, pop stars, women leaders in science such as Marie Curie and female writers such as Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jane Austin
Interesting list! Thanks for sharing, Judy.
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