Children's Literature

Books in Buley

Buley Library has a collection of children's books (both fiction and nonfiction) shelved on the third floor. The catalog is easily accessible at www.consuls.org. It's searchable by author, title, keyword and subject. Listed below are some directories to the children's books awards.

The Kerlan Awards in Children's Literature, 1975-2001(2001). . St. Paul, Minn.: Pogo Press.

PN497.K47 2001

Allen, M. N. (1996). One Hundred Years of Children's Books in America : Decade by Decade. New York: Facts On File. PS490 .A38 1996

Allen, R. (1998). Children's Book Prizes : An Evaluation and History of Major Awards for Children's Books in the English-Speaking World. Aldershot, Hants; Brookfield: England; Vt. : Ashgate.

Ref. Z1037.A2 A42 1998

Children's Book Council. Children's Books. Awards & Prizes. New York: Children's Book Council, inc.

Ref. Z1037.A2 W47a 1992

Peterson, L. K. (1982). Newbery and Caldecott Medal and Honor Books : An Annotated Bibliography. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. Ref. PN1009.A1 P4 1982

Westchester Library System. (1961). Children's Books: Awards and Prizes, 1960/1961. New York: Children's Book Council. Ref. Z1037.A2C5 1986

Journal Articles

Use the library online databases to retrieve critiques and reviews on related works. The following is a list of the databases you can try:

Academic Search Elite	Indexes/abstracts 3000+ scholarly journals in social sciences and humanities. Some articles are available in full text.
Digital Dissertations	Digital Dissertations provides more than 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage 1861-current.
Education Research Complete	Indexes and abstracts articles in the field of education with selected full-text.
Essay & General Literature Index	contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences.
Expanded Academic ASAP	Periodicals covering all academic concentrations
Gale's Literature Resource Center	Full-text author biographies, critical essays, and more drawn from several Gale resources
InfoTrac OneFile	Journal articles of general interest
LION: Literature Online	A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 136 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Literary Reference Center	information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time periods