LibGuides: Children's Literature: Relevant Journals & Databases

Databases

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Contains more than 500,000 professional reviews of children's books, multimedia and audio books (aggregated from 42 sources).

The database provides over 1.6 million entries including 650,000 national, state, and international award entries dating back to 1922. Includes teaching tools (lesson plans & teaching guides) and allows limiting by age or grade level. Truncation is done by selecting 'word variants' on search screen.
MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association. It has citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

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Project MUSE
A searchable collection of over 300 full text academic press journals covering literature, history, the arts, education, philosophy, political science and more.

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JSTOR
A searchable collection of over 600 full text journals, some dating back to the 19th century. Recent issues of most journals are embargoed.
Something About the Author
Includes Something About the Author, Main Series, and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series, with illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and illustrators.

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