Databases for Children's Literature
Best Bets
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| Childrens Literature Comprehensive Database |
The reviews come from 36 review sources, including Children's Literature; The Horn Book Magazine; Kirkus; Media & Methods; and Parent's Guide. |
1993-present |
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| Literature Resource Center |
LRC is built upon Gale's three author resources: Contemporary Authors, offering biographical coverage of more than 120,000 modern writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism |
Current and retrospective |
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| TeachingBooks.net |
Contains instructional materials for K-12 fiction and nonfiction books. |
Varies |
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| Something About the Author |
Something About the Author Online covers the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. |
1971-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Childrens Core Collection |
The Children's Core Collection (formerly Children's Catalog) covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, graphic novels, and magazines recommended for readers in |
Latest edition (2009) |
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| ERIC |
Sources include journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. Each year approximately 30,000 new records are added. |
1966-present |
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| Literary Reference Center |
Contains full text for 31,098 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, nearly 140,000 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), |
Current |
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| Literature Criticism Online |
Provides access to scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. |
1400-present |
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| Middle and Junior High Core Collection |
For libraries serving readers in grades five through nine, Middle and Junior High Core Collection provides indispensable help with collection development and maintenance, |
1988-present |
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| Middle Search Plus |
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines, primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference boo |
1975-present |
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| Novelist K-8 Plus |
NoveList K-8 Plus is a comprehensive reading resource for fiction and nonfiction, and will help you integrate reading across the curriculum and support young readers. The |
1950's-present |
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| Senior High Core Collection |
The Senior High Core Collection provides a selective list of books, more than 40,500 entries for fiction and nonfiction works, recommended for young people in grades 9 through 12. |
1960-present |
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Even More
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Library Catalog |
Holdings for Appalachian State, UNC-A, and Western Carolina University. |
1400's-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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