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Jr. Authors & Illustrators Off-campus access requires ID
Biographies and pictures of children's book authors and illustrators published by H. W. Wilson.

Biography Resource Center Off-campus access requires ID
Children’s authors are included in this collection of biographies from Gale Group sources such as Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Contemporary Authors, and St. James Guide to Children’s Writers. Also includes full-text journal articles.

Teaching Books Off-campus access requires ID
Unique multimedia resource introducing authors and their works to young readers and teachers.

Index to Internet Sites: Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators
Lengthy list of authors & illustrators sites which include bibliographies, biographies, lesson plans, and criticisms.

Authors & Illustrators on the Web
More bibliographies, biographies, lesson plans, and criticisms.

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Award Winners

Caldecott

Coretta Scott King

Newbery

Printz

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
This database offers many ways to search--by specific awards, time period, setting, grade level, or by gender and ethnicity of the protagonists

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Books: Databases for Searching

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) Off-campus access requires ID
Offers 600,000 MARC records and more than 70,000 reviews of children's books and many search options.

Children's Core Collection (Grades Pre-6), Middle & Jr. High School Core Collection (Grades 5-9), and Sr. High School Core Collection (Grades 9-12), are recommended library collections for schools. They allow you to search for fiction and nonfiction juvenile books by author, title, subject, keywords, or Dewey Decimal Number, and provide annotations, selective reviews, suggested age levels, and MARC records. Off-campus access requires ID

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
This database offers many ways to search--by specific awards, time period, setting, grade level, or by gender and ethnicity of the protagonists.

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Magazine Articles

Full-text online magazine articles and pamphlets for school students can be found in these EBSCOhost databases: Off-campus access requires ID

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New Children's Books in the Library

2006-2007

2005-2006

2004-2005

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Other Useful Websites

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
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 areas, themes and professional topics.

Children's Literature Web Guide

ISLMC Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources

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