FDU LibGuides: LITS 2400: Children's Literature : Welcome

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Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window Essays examining the lives and works of great writers; critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism imprint; entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, and authors; and almost 2,200 video clips.
Contemporary Literary Criticism This link opens in a new window Each volume profiles approximately four to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, philosophers or other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism reproduced from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.  Guide to Using Contemporary Literary Criticism 
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window Gale Literature allows you to simultaneously search the Gale eBooks, Literature Criticism, Literature Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and LitFinder resources.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed publications.  Guide to using Academic Search Premier
Access World News This link opens in a new window Ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, and more. Explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics.  Guide to Using Access World News
ERIC This link opens in a new window ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC contains more than 1.4 million records and links to more than 337,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window Gale Literature allows you to simultaneously search the Gale eBooks, Literature Criticism, Literature Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and LitFinder resources.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window Humanities International Complete covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. In addition to hundreds of full-text books, the database includes over 1,200 full-text journals. Over 1,100 additional journals are indexed.
JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new window The JSTOR journal archives provide full-text collections of core scholarly journals across a variety of disciplines from the arts to the sciences with a strong emphasis on the humanities.   Guide to Using JSTOR 
New York Times Online This link opens in a new window Access the New York Times starting with the first issue in 1851 through the latest news of today.  Guide to Using New York Times
The New York Times online requires you to create an account before you can access the site. You must use your FDU email address when registering. Access is good for one year. After which you will need to re-register. To re-register follow these instructions.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window A comprehensive research database covering sociology as well as related areas: It provides full text for some 890 journals dating back to 1908, as well as full text for over 850 books and monographs and over 16,800 conference papers. Indexing is provided for more than 4,000 journals, with abstracts for over 1,300 "core" journals dating back to 1895.

Open Access Journals

Online Resources

Book Recommendations, Reviews, and Book Lists
Children's Literature Awards

NoveList This link opens in a new window
NoveList is a database for promoting discovery of popular fiction and readable nonfiction. It provides reviews, annotations, Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.

Book Riot
Find the best books for your next read or book club, including new books in all genres.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media is an organization that reviews and provides ratings for media and technology with the goal of providing information to parents on their suitability for children.
NEA's Books by Theme
Use these lists from the National Education Association (NEA) to connect children and their families to diverse books, languages, and cultures and spread the joy of reading.
PBS's Booklists
Searching for book recommendations? Look no further! Welcome to our specially curated collections of books for any topic your family wants to explore: science, math, humor, holidays and more.

Batchelder Award
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is awarded to an American publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating in a country other than the United States and in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States during the preceding year.
Caldecott Medal
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Notable Children's Books
Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books.
Pura Belpré Award
This award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Sibert Informational Book Medal
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois.

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LITS 2400: Children's Literature : Welcome

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