Research Guides: TEEL 260: Children's Literature: General Information

How to use this Guide

Welcome. This guide is for TEEL 260 Children's Literature. It provides an overview of award-winning children's books found at Forsyth Library, how to find information in the library, Education Resources, and suggests Diverse and Anti-Racism children's books.

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Search Juvenile Literature
Link to search Juvenile Books, In Forsyth Library, On Second Floor or in New Books

Online Journals

Author, Illustrator, and Poet Databases

Something About the Author This link opens in a new window
Consisting of more than 225 volumes, 19,000 entries, and nearly 17,000 images, this resource examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. But if you need more than just biographical information you can cross-search this resource with Literature Criticism Online and obtain additional information about the author's works, era, genres, criticism and analysis.
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Reference e-books on a wide range of topics. Sources include dictionaries, encyclopedias, key concepts, key thinkers, handbooks, atlases, and more. Search by keyword or browse titles by topic.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews of nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods from around the world.
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Literary Reference Center contains full text plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticisms, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, author interviews, and classic texts.

Print Journals and Books

Essentials of Children's Literature by Carol Lynch-Brown; Carl M. Tomlinson
Call Number: PN1009 .A1 L96 2005
ISBN: 9780205420155
Publication Date: 2004-08-01
Criticism, Theory and Children's Literature by Peter Hunt
Call Number: PN1009 .A1 H76 1991
ISBN: 9780631162292
Publication Date: 1991-06-01
Festschrift by Perry Nodelman (Editor); Jill P. May (Editor)
Call Number: PN1009 .A1 T575 1985
ISBN: 9780937263037
Publication Date: 1983-04-01

E-Books

Children's Literature by Seth Lerer
ISBN: 9780226473024
Publication Date: 2009-04-01
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. "Children's Literature "charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from "Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland" to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are "to Harry Potter.
Children's Literature in the Classroom by Diane M. Barone
ISBN: 9781606239414
Publication Date: 2010-09-23
This authoritative and accessible guide provides a wealth of ideas for incorporating high-quality children's books of all kinds into K-6 classrooms.
Creativity and Children's Literature by Marianne Saccardi
ISBN: 9781610693561
Publication Date: 2014-07-31
Today's students need to be able to do more than score well on tests--they must be creative thinkers and problem solvers.
Educators Companion to Childrens Literature by Sharron L. McElmeel
ISBN: 9780313079399
Publication Date: 1996-08-15
Each of these volumes explores five popular genres and shows how they can be used to promote learning in the library and classroom.
Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature by Emer O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780810874961
Publication Date: 2010-10-01
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old).
Teaching Children's Literature
ISBN: 9781136449635
Publication Date: 2012-08-21
This groundbreaking text offers a fresh perspective on how to implement children's literature into and across the curriculum in ways that are both effective and purposeful.