Children's Literature
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Further Research
Help Beginning Your Research:
The Education Subject Guide
A list of resources available through the University of Arizona Library on subjects related to education.
Helpful Subject Headings:
Children's literature
Children's literature-book reviews
Children's literature-history and criticism
Children's literature-study and teaching
Children's literature-periodicals
Children's literature-bibliography-periodicals
For Articles on Literature:
Literature Resource Center
"Provides reference materials on authors of both fiction and nonfiction. Includes bibliographical and biographical information, literary criticism and contextual information. Access by author, title, genre, literary movement or theme. Includes primarily full text and excerpted text from major reference sources, scholarly journals, commissioned essays and interviews."
For Articles & News on Education:
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
The ERIC index covers the broad area of education. It includes two types of publications:
- Journal articles from over 750 education-related journals
- ERIC documents, materials that generally have not been published such as curriculum guides, research reports, research in progress and conference papers.
For a Wide Range of Articles & News:
EBSCOhost
"Covers a broad range of disciplines including general academic, business, social sciences, humanities, general sciences, education, and multi-cultural topics. Offers full text for 1,000 journals and indexing for 3,000 journals."
Coverage: 1980-present; full-text 1992-present.
Children's Literature Websites:
ALA Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids
Divided into categories for kids, teens, parents and families. Includes award winning children's book lists as well as recommended items in other formats. Developed by the American Library Association.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
"This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum themes and professional topics."
The Children's Literature Web Guide
Developed by David K. Brown, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources,
University of Calgary
"The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries and commercial enterprises involved in the book world."
K.E. Vandergrift's Special Interest Page
Includes information on such topics as :Linking Literature with Learning, A History of Children's Literature, Censorship and Copyright. Author is a professor at Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.
CCBC-net
CCBC-net is a listserv (subscription-based discussion by e-mail) devoted to children's literature; every month, a new topic is discussed. You can use this listserv two ways: browse the topics listed in the archives, or join the list and receive the discussion as it happens (warning: subscription will generate lots of e-mail). Past topics include evaluating Native American children's books, the Harry Potter phenomenon, and Caldecott arward.
Additional Reference Sources:
Children's Books in Print Z1037.A1 C482 (latest year in Main Ref; earlier years in stacks)
Holdings: 1974-1986; 1988-
A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's Picture Books Z1037 .L715 (latest edition in Main Ref; earlier editions in stacks)
Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print Z1037.A1 C483 (latest year in Main Ref; earlier years in stacks)
Holdings: 1979-
Something About the Author PN451.S6 Information Commons Reference
Holdings: Vol. 1-6, 8-
Children's Literature Review Z1037.A1C5 Information Commons Reference
Holdings: Vol. 1-
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