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Library Catalog
Locating the Library's books and media

AUTHOR (or Illustrator) search:
Example: Carle, Eric

TITLE search:
Example: Green Eggs and Ham

KEYWORD search:
Example: alphabet (will help locate alphabet books)

*How to limit books to only juvenile books:
+ (additional options)
l (limit this search)
w (where the item is located)
j (juvenile)
f (find items with above limits)


Reference Books
  • Something about the Author (Ref PN 451 .S6)
    -Biographies of authors and illustrators. Lists of works published. Awards.
  • Children's Literature Review (Ref PN 1009 .A1 C5139)
    -Sources for book reviews, with summaries of the reviews.
  • The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators (Ref Z 1232 E85 2002)


  • Sources for Caldecott and Newbery Award Speeches
  • Horn Book Magazine publishes the award speeches (but not the honor speeches) each year,
    usually in August.
  • Caldecott Medal Books, 1938-1957, with the Artists' Acceptance Papers & Related Material
    Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine (Ref Z 1035 .A2 M49)
  • Newbery Medal Books, 1922-1955, with the Artists' Acceptance Papers & Related Material
    Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine (Ref Z 1035 .A13 M5)
  • Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books, 1956-1965, with Acceptance Papers, Biographies and
    Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine (Ref Z 1037 .A2 K5 1965)
  • Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books, 1966-1975, with Acceptance Papers, Biographies and
    Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine (Ref Z 1037 .A2 N48)


  • Sources from the Web:

  • Caldecott Medal Home Page
  • Newbery Medal Home Page
  • Coretta Scott King Award

  • *Many authors and illustrators have their own webpages. Use a search engine such as Google to help you find their webpages and other information about them.
    Example: The Official Eric Carle Web Site
    *There are also a number of websites that provide links to author/illustrator webpages.
    Example: Meet Authors and Illustrators (http://www.childrenslit.com)


    Periodical Indexes
    Locating journal and magazine articles and book reviews.

  • InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAP DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library
  • ERIC Database (Educator's Reference Desk)


  • Periodicals in Edens Library on Children's Literature and Language Arts

  • Book Links
  • Children's Literature in Education
    (avail. in print through 2000; all issues beginning 2001 are on microfilm only)
  • English Journal
  • Horn Book Magazine
    (also full-text on InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAP DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library , Feb. 1980 to present)
  • Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
    (also full-text on InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAP DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library , Sept. 2000 to present)
  • Journal of Literacy Research
  • Language Arts
  • Mailbox Book Bag
  • Multicultural Review
  • Primary Voices K-6
  • Reading Teacher
    (also full-text on InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAP DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library , Oct. 2000 to present)
  • Teaching Tolerance

  • Fall 2000/Leach
    Revised Fall 2002
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    Date: 6/13/06
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