ENG232.Childrens.Literature.Brown

=ENG 232: Children's Literature=
 * Professor Pat Brown**



This guide is designed to help you research children's literature topics. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
 * [|RCC Library Home Page]: Most materials found in this research guide are available at the library's home page.
 * William Hoag: Please contact me if you have any questions concerning this guide or research.

=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest. [|Tutorial for searching catalog and ordering books from Metro Boston Library Network (includes BPL)]

Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase

 * "Children's literature"
 * "Children's books"
 * "Children reading"

New Books
__Children's Literature Studies: cases and discussions__: Z1037.A1 S237 2006

__Feeling Like a Kid: childhood and children's literature__: PN1009.A1 G75 2006

__Multicultural Children's Literature: through the eyes of a child__: PS153.M56 N675 2005

General Children's Literature Reference
__Accross Cultures: a guide to multicultural literature for children,__ by Kathy East, Westport Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. Ref. Z1037 .E19 2007 __Best Books for Children__, by John Gillespie, Westport, Conn. : Bowker-Greenwood, 2002. Ref. Z1037 .G482 2002 __Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults__, by Barbra Thrash Murphy, New York : Routledge, 2007. Ref. PN1009.A1 M87 2007 __Children's Literature: a guide to information sources__, by Margret Denman-West, Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1998. Ref. PN1009.A1 D35 1998 __Children's Literature Review__, Detroit : Gale Research, 1976. Ref. PN1009 .S4 __Sensitive Issues: an annotated guide to children's literature__, K-6, by Timothy Rasinski, Phoenix : Oryx Press, 1992. Ref. Z1037 .R23 1992 __The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature__, New York : Oxford University Press, 1984. Ref. PN1008.5 .C37 1984

Handbooks
__The Children's and Young Adult Literature Handbook__, Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2005. Ref. Z1037.A1 G475 2005

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's first floor periodicals section for articles about childrens literature.
 * __Booklist__- Reviews
 * __Choice__- Reviews

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases.

[|Academic OneFile]
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Has over 15,000 articles mentioning "children's literature", 13,000 articles "children's books" and 1,000 articles mentioning "children reading". [|Tutorial]

[|Academic Search Premier]
Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including over 31,000 articles mentioning "children's literature", 9,700 articles mentioning "children's books" and 400 articles mentioning "children reading". [|Tutorial]

[|Contemporary Literary Criticism]
CDC is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Use to find information on children's literature authors.

[|Literary Reference Center]
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Has over 27,000 articles mentioning "children's literature", 40,000 articles mentioning "children's books" and 4,000 articles mentioning "children reading". [|Tutorial]

[|Literature Resource Center]
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

=Web sites= There are many good children's literature web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Lesley University] has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Altavista]
 * [|Google]

General Children's Literature

 * [|Children's Literature Navigator]
 * [|Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site]
 * [|Database of Award Winning Children's Literature]
 * [|The Children's Literature Web Guide]

Book Awards

 * [|Newbery Medal Award]
 * [|Cadecott Medal Award]
 * [|Hans Christian Anderson Medal Award]

=Citing Sources: Style Guides=

__[|APA Style Tutorial]__ [|Duke Library Guide to Assembling a List of Works Cited] [|Laguardia Community College Library MLA and APA citation style] [|The Owl at Purdue: APA Formatting and Style Guide] [|The Owl at Purdue: MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide]

=Basic Research Help= Please click the Ask a Librarian icon if you have any questions concerning these guides, need help finding material for your research or any general questions you might have.
 * Looking for books? Search our [|Online Catalog].
 * Looking for articles? Search our [|Databases].
 * Can't find what you are looking for? Use our [|InterLibrary Loan Form].

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Research guide updated on 02/09/2009 by Wiliam Hoag: whoag@rcc.mass.edu Updated on 12/21/09