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Literature for Children & Young Adults

WEB GUIDES

The sites below are suggested starting points for research on children's books.

• Children's Book Council
  http://www.cbcbooks.org/
  A resource for everyone interested in children's books, brought to you by a consortium of publishers. Features include book and author showcases, bibliographies, links to author web sites, criteria for choosing books for different ages, a directory of member publishers, plus resources for budding writers and artists.
  
• Cooperative Children's Book Center
  http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/
  Provides annotated bibliographies of multicultural books and more, author interviews, and a directory of author and illustrator's web pages. See the "site index" for an organizational overview.
  
• Kay E. Vandergrift's Special Interest Page
  http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/
  Articles and bibliographies on children's literature by a professor at Rutgers University. See her valuable articles and book lists on many aspects of children's literature, including gender and multicultural concerns, fairy tales, and current world issues.
  
• Children's Literature Web Guide
  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
  A web guide for children's books, including links to authors and illustrator's websites.
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.childrenslit.com/home.htm
  This web site seeks to help teachers, librarians, and parents make appropriate literary choices for children. In addition to reviews, the site includes themed book lists, a monthly "meet the authors and illustrators" feature, and materials and ideas for teachers.

The following web sites are focused on a specific area within children's literature

• Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
  http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/search/
  A database of more than 5,000 picture books intended to be used as a bibliographic tool for designing literature-based thematic units for all disciplines, grades preschool to 3. Continually updated and complimented with informational links for teachers and librarians, the database is designed for searches by topics, concepts and skills, in all areas of the curriculum.
  
• Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
  http://www.csusm.edu/csb/
  A site that promotes literacy in English and Spanish, and seeks to inform current and future educational decision-makers about books centered around Latino people and culture. Two searchable databases make finding recommended books in Spanish, and books in English about Latinos very easy.
  
• Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
  http://www.dawcl.com/
  An interesting distraction and sometimes useful tool. This database will create a bibliography of award winning books for children based on your selected criteria, including age of reader, genre, historical period, gender of protagonist, and multicultural themes.

DATABASES

Ludcke Library Databases
Access the databases through the myLibrary tab in myLesley. Need help? Go to "Get Started."

• Global Books in Print with Reviews provides full text, unedited book reviews from the major children's literature journals, including The Horn Book, School Library Journaland Booklist. Also available from this database is the online version of A to Zoo: Subject Acess to Picture Books. See the title listing under "Children's Room."

• Contemporary Authors, available through Biography Resource Center, offers full-text author studies, including bios, bibliographies, critiques and citations to book reviews. More than 100,000 American and international authors of books for children and adults are included. The print version is available in the main Reference Collection on the first floor of the library.
  
• Wilson OmniFile is an interdisciplinary database with full-text articles from many important education journals and book review sources.
  
• Academic Search Premier and Expanded Academic ASAP are full-text databases with journals in education and other fields.

• ERIC is the authoritative education database, providing references to journal articles and ERIC documents. The only full-text items are ERIC digests, which are summary articles on many hot topics in education.

JOURNALS

* * * Want to know which of the Library's Databases index and contain full-text articles to the journals listed below? Consult this journal chart. Also included is a brief description of each journal, and its' availability at Ludcke and on the free web * * *

• The Alan Review
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/alan-review.html
  Published by Virginia Tech, this journal features scholarly, full-text articles on young adult literature.
  
• Book Links
  http://www.ala.org/BookLinks/
  Book Links is a journal for teachers, librarians and anyone interested in connecting children to high quality literature. The web site includes a sampling of articles, bibliographies, and author highlights from the current and previous issues.

• Booklist
  http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html
  Published by the American Library Association, Booklist online offers a selection of reviews for children and young adults, bibliographies (including editors' annual choices), interviews with authors, and more. Full indexes of book reviews are also available for each volume.
  
• The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
  http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/
  The print and online publications are maintained by the University of Illinois to help librarians select book purchases. The web site offers a small number of reviews (including the monthly "Big Picture") and bibliographies free of charge, in addition to selections from the print journal, including past and present award winners.
  
• Children's Literature in Education
  http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0045-6713
  This journal contains articles and interviews on noted children's authors, incisive critiques of classic and contemporary writing for young readers, and original articles describing successful classroom reading projects. Articles from the current year are available free on the website.
  
• The Horn Book and the Horn Book Guide
  http://www.hbook.com/
  The children's book magazine offers selected reviews and articles from the current issue, as well as lists of current and past articles, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners, and resources for parents, teachers, and librarians.
  
• Kirkus Reviews
  http://www.kirkusreviews.com/kirkusreviews/magazine/childrens.jsp
  Kirkus is a straight up review journal--no images, no articles, just reviews. The website offers a large number of reviews free of charge (aproximately 500 per month, including both grown up and children's titles).
  
• The Lion and the Unicorn
  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/
  The Lion and the Unicorn is a theme- and genre-centered international journal of literature for children with an academic outlook. The website offers full text access to volumes back to 1995.

• Riverbank Review 
  http://www.riverbankreview.com/index.html
  Riverbank's web site is a shortened version of the print review journal that debuted in 1998 (print copies back to Winter 2002-03 are available in the periodical stacks.) Available online are selected reviews, bibliographies and a complete list of the Riverbank's annual Books of Distinction Awards.

• School Library Journal
  http://slj.reviewsnews.com/
  Although reviews remain accessible only through the print publication and electronic databases, the SLJ site includes many useful articles, book, video, and web site picks of the week, bestseller lists, and much more.
  
• VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)
  http://www.voya.com/
  VOYA is dedicated to helping librarians who serve adolescents & teenagers. Includes book reviews, interviews, and many ideas on introducing books and services to kids, some of which are available online. VOYA is an excellent source for reviews by genre, including sciene fiction, fantasy and graphic novels. The journal also has a fair amount of writing by young adults.