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The Jewish ValuesFinder online at the AJL website is an excellent selection guide to Jewish juvenile literature. You can also find the 2008 edition in print: // The Jewish Values Finder // by Linda Silver, published by Neal Schuman and The Association of Jewish Libraries.

The AJL Bibliography Bank has a large collection of bibliographies on a wide variety of topics.

//AJL's Notable Children's Books of Jewish Content//. New York: AJL, 2001. (60 p.) Annotated lists of recommended books for 1985-2000, prepared by the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee. $10. For purchase, please contact the AJL Publications chair at publications@jewishlibraries.org . The Sydney Taylor Book Awards Committee has tagged its books for younger readers and its books for teen readers.

// Jewish Classics for Kids // by Linda Silver, published by AJL in 2006.

// [|Best Jewish Books for Children and Teens: A JPS Guide] // by Linda Silver. (JPS, 2010) Linda Silver has also contributed a list entitled to help determine which materials should be weeded and which books kept, based on their historic value. **Presentations:** Silver, Linda. Developing a Children's Collection. Presented at the 2003 AJL Convention. Ibid. Librarian's Guide for the Perplexed: Developing a Children's Collection. Presented at the 2005 AJL Convention.

Levine, Janice Resnick: Children's Hebrew Books, Videos and Websites -Where do I find them and what's new out there?- presented at the 2005 AJL Convention.  Levine, Janice Resnick: Children's Hebrew Books: What's Available, Where to Find Them, and How to Catalog Them --presented at the 2001 AJL Convention. Banks, Cheryl. Best Holocaust Videos for Children Presented at the 2001 AJL Convention. Estrin, Heidi. [|Is the Rainbow Fish Jewish? Secular Picture Books that Reinforce Jewish Concepts and Values] --presented at the 2002 AJL Convention. [|Judaic Software Database] This database, created by the Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago, can be searched by platform, distributor, title, and subject.