Research Guides: Children's Literature: Books and Articles about Children's Literature

Author, Illustrator, and Poet Databases

Something About the Author
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.
Credo Reference E-Book Collection
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
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 Source
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.

Children's Lit and Math

Search for Children's Literature AND Mathematics

Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, 3-5
ISBN: 9781681403311
15 kid-friendly lessons convey how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics intersect in the real world.
Text Sets by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy (Editor); Rachael Fleischaker (Editor)
ISBN: 9789004368309
Each chapter provides an annotated text set with a specific theme, curricular goals, and instructional activities that suggest ways for students to interact with the texts.
Booktalks, Bookwalks, and Read-Alouds by Rosanne Blass
ISBN: 9781563088100
Encourage elementary and middle school readers to read quality titles pertaining to subjects from across the curriculum.
Literature-Based Teaching in the Content Areas by Carole A. Cox
ISBN: 9781412974936
Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides teachers with 40 strategies for using fiction and non-fiction trade books to teach in five key content areas: language arts and reading, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts.
More Science Through Children's Literature by John W. Butzow; Carol M. Butzow
ISBN: 9781563082665
Each chapter focuses on an individual book and includes vocabulary; concepts; applications; and a wide variety of activities, including hands-on and inquiry-based topics, games, puzzles, word searches, and more.

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.