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Juvenile/Children's Literature Databases

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
Search this database for reviews, records, and other related information about children's literature. Contains reviews supplied by over 38 review media. Search by subject, age level, genre and curriculum tools.
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Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education. Provides indexing for over 1,800 journals, as well as full-text for over 900 journals, 81 books, and numerous education-related conference papers. Tutorial for the Education Research Complete database.
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.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
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A valuable source for the latest in linguistics and its various sub-disciplines. Non-evaluative abstracts of articles from hundreds of serials published around the world, complemented with coverage of books, occasional papers, monographs, & more.
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Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
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Suggested Database Searches:
ERIC
Childrens literature
Reading materials
Picture books

Education Research Complete
Children’s literature
Children’s stories
Young adult literature

LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
Childrens literature
Reading Strategies
Reading instruction

Teacher Reference Center
Juvenile literature
Literature -- study & teaching (early childhood)
Reading (elementary)
Teaching methods AND Books & Reading

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Key Journals

Children's Literature
Publishes theoretically-based articles that address key issues in the field
from 1972 to present
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Publishes first-rate scholarship in children's literature studies.
from 01/01/1976 to present
Children's Literature in Education
A key source of articles on all aspects of children's literature
from 03/01/1970 to present
Journal of Children's Literature
Devoted to teaching and scholarship in the field of children's literature.
from 04/15/2002 to present
Lion and the Unicorn
An international theme- and genre-centered journal, is committed to a serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children.
from 1977 to present
Voices from the Middle
Publishes original contributions by middle level teachers, students, teacher educators, and researchers
from 02/01/1995 to present