Skip to Main Content

Children's Literature

Your Librarian

Email Me

Contact:

Main Library A208

(520) 626-3850

Subjects: Education, Literature

Search for book reviews

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Find information about children's books, authors, and illustrators.
Literature Criticism Online
Find full text entries for literary criticism reviews and analysis. You can limit your search to "Children's Literature Review Online" under Product/Series.
Gale platform Listen feature instructions

Horn Book Magazine
Features commentary, articles, book reviews of selected new titles, and other information related to children’s and young adult literature.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Each review gives you information on book's content, reading level, strengths and weaknesses, and quality of format, as well as suggestions for curricular use.
Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
VOYA is dedicated to the needs of young adult librarians, the advocacy of young adults, and the promotion of young adult literature and reading. 350 books are reviewed in each issue of VOYA.
Booklist
Booklist magazine delivers over 8,000 recommended-only reviews of books, audiobooks, reference sources, video, and DVD titles each year.

Author databases

Something About the Author
Find detailed biographies and autobiographies of authors and illustrators for children and young adults.
Gale platform Listen feature instructions
Literature Resource Center
Full-text of biographies, bibliographies, and literary criticism of authors from all time periods covering novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers from antiquity-present.
Gale platform Listen feature instructions