InfoGuides: Foreign Language Juvenile Literature: Locate Websites, Awards, Databases

Internationally Focused Databases

ERIC This link opens in a new window
References to thousands of educational topics. Indexes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards, guidelines and more. ERIC documents (non-journal literature) are available full-text, 1993 to the present. View a tutorial on this database here.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Offers full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's university presses and scholarly societies. Tutorial for the Project MUSE database.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. Tutorial for the MLA International Bibliography database.

Websites

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
"This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."
Children's Book Council
The CBC partners with other national organizations on co-sponsored reading lists, educational programming, and literacy initiatives.
Children's Literature (Library of Congress)
"The Children's Literature Center serves those organizations and individuals who study, produce, collect, interpret, and disseminate children's books, films, television programs, or other forms of materials destined for children's information and recreational use, usually outside the classroom."
Children's Literature Association
"Encouraging high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children's literature"
Children's Picture Book Database
Provides a searchable database of picture books for designing literature-based thematic units.
International Children's Digital Library
TheICDL is committed to creating a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. The collection includes 3932 books in 54 languages.

Multicultural Awards

These awards recognize children's and young adult literature titles that portray an authentic image of a racial, ethnic or religious group; or promote social justice and peace. The criteria for some awards recognize the Author or Illustrator's racial or ethnic heritage.

Coretta Scott King Award
"promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream"
Hans Christian Andersen Award
"presented every two years by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important and lasting contribution to children's literature."
IBBY Honour List
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together.
Notable Books for a Global Society
"outstanding trade books for enhancing student understanding of people and cultures throughout the world"
Pura Belpré Award
"Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience"