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Children's Literature

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Subjects: Education, Literature

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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
Find information about children's books, authors, and illustrators.
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Find full text entries for literary criticism reviews and analysis. You can limit your search to "Children's Literature Review Online" under Product/Series.
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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 This link opens in a new window
Find detailed biographies and autobiographies of authors and illustrators for children and young adults.
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Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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.
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