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Children's Literature

Last Updated: 16-Jan-2013

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This is a guide for those researching children's literature.

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Head of Cubberley Education Library, Curator for Education Resources, Subject Librarian for Psychology
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Subjects

Literary studies
Education

Related guides

Children's & Young Adult Books -- Awards
Children's Books -- Special Collections
Children's Books by Guided Reading Level

Around Stanford

Cubberley Education Library
Stanford Graduate School of Education

Background Information

Handbook of research on children's and young adult literature / edited by Shelby A. Wolf ... [et al.].
New York : Routledge, 2011.
Cubberley » Reference (Non-circulating) » PS121 .H22 2011
"Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children's literature."

Journals

Children's literature in education.
[New York, etc., APS Publications, etc.]
SAL3 » Stacks » Z1037 .A1 C5 V.39 2008
Children's literature review.
Detroit, Gale Research.
SAL3 » Stacks » PN1009 .A1 C5139 V.133 2008
The Horn book magazine.
Boston, The Horn Book Inc.
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » 71 18433
The Lion and the unicorn.
[Brooklyn, N.Y.]
SAL3 » Stacks » PN1009 .A1 L54 V.32 2008

Databases

Education Databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related Databases

Children's literature comprehensive database [electronic resource].
[New Haven, Conn.?] : Children's Literature
"an extensive array of information about children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media."
MLA international bibliography [electronic resource].
[New York] : H.W. Wilson, 1987-
The most important index to journals, books and dissertations in literature and language. Produced by the Modern Language Association.

Websites

Africa Access Review
Guide to children's literature on Africa. Reviews are written by univ. faculty, librarians, and teachers many of whom are in African studies or have lived in Africa. Use the Search to locate, for ex., Swahili culture. Has an Africana Book Buddies Club. Information on winners of the Children's Africana Book Awards (CABA). Edited by Brenda Randolph. [KF]
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
"The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards."
International Children's Digital Library
"The mission of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community – children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online."
Selections from the Curriculum Library's Historical Collection at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
"This digital collection consists of over 30 full-text, digitized children's books. The books were selected using the following criteria: publication date, rarity, uniqueness, size, and location of publication. All of the items in the digital collection were published before 1923, and are in the public domain. The oldest book in the digital collection, Dolly's ABC was published in 1854. Many of the items in the digital collection are quite rare, with only a few other holdings available."