Signal 100, the final volume (256 pp.), combines the

The Signal Companion by Elaine Moss & Nancy Chambers. 1996. 160pp.  978 0 903355 48 3. Cross-referenced annotations for every article in Signal’s first 25 years make a unique survey of the subject of children’s literature.

Reading Talk by Aidan Chambers. 2001. 176pp.  978 0 903355 50 6. A collection of writings about youth literature, translation and the value of reading. Includes ‘The Future of the Book’ and ‘Anne Frank's Pen’. Also in Spanish.

Reading Otherways by Lissa Paul. 1998. 96pp. 978  0 903355 46 9. An invigorating approach to the discussion of children's books, based in a feminist’s close attention to texts, in collaboration with students.

Information & Book Learning by Margaret Meek. 1996. 128pp.  978 0 903355 49 0. A leading critic helps readers think about the nature of information books, how children gather and understand knowledge, the primacy of narrative.

How Texts Teach What Readers Learn by Margaret Meek. 1988. 48pp. 978  0 903355 23 0. Literature is indispensable to literacy: the case is made clearly and with unparalleled impact. A classic.

Signs of Childness in Children’s Books by Peter Hollindale. 1997. 140pp. 978  0 903355 44 5. Children need to create their own childhoods of the mind through encounters with imagined childhoods: how does this idea affect adult readings of children’s books? Also in Japanese.

Looking at Pictures in Picture Books by Jane Doonan. 1993. 96pp. 978  0 903355 40 7. All that’s needed to begin the ‘active contemplation’ of picture books, which can be central to the aesthetic development of children and adults alike. This book developed from a decade of Jane Doonan's contributions to Signal on contemporary picture-book artists. Now back in print (April 2008)

The Reading Environment: How adults help children enjoy books by Aidan Chambers. 1991. 96pp.  978 0 903355 36 0. A collection of practical comment and advice for the classroom.

Tell Me: Children, Reading & Talk by Aidan Chambers. 1993. 129 pp. 978  0 903355 42 1. Talking about books in the classroom: the processes explained and some ground rules outlined by experienced practitioners as a Framework, ‘questions that assist readers in speaking out their reading’. (Tell Me and Reading Environment published in US by Stenhouse; in Canada by Pembroke.Also in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Spanish and 2 Chinese translations; Tell Me in Japanese & Italian also.)

Booktalk: Occasional Writing on Literature & Children by Aidan Chambers. 1995 reissue. 192 pp. 978 0 903355 47 6. Collection of articles and essays (1976-85), first published by the Bodley Head. Also in Swedish. Includes the Children's Literature Association award-winning ‘The Reader in the Book’. [AC received the 1999 Carnegie Medal for Postcards from No Man's Land (Bodley Head); in 2002 the International Board on Books for Young People’s Hans Christian Andersen Medal for lifetime achievement.]

 978 0 903355 43 8. A teacher has to ‘read’ each child, each parent, with a skill made up of intuition and experience and an attitude of hope. This fictionalized diary of what starting school feels like, to four-year-olds and their mothers and fathers and their teachers, is ‘a beautiful book, suffused with humour and humanity’ (School Librarian).

Classics for Children & Young People A Signal Bookguide by Margery Fisher. 1986. 72pp. 978  0 903355 20 9. Exemplary annotations— essays in miniature — by a great critic, offer a historical introduction to the subject of children’s literature.

978 0 903355 38 4. A poet and teacher brings every aspect of his experience to the recommending of books and the exploring of ways to approach poetry in the classroom.

Traditional Tales A Signal Bookguide by Mary Steele. 1989. 72pp. 978  0 903355 29 2. A children's and youth librarian recommends 150+ titles.