 CHILDREN'S
& YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Finding Reviews of Children's and Young Adult Books
Selecting Children's and Young Adult Books by Age, Grade,
Genre, etc.
Lesson Plans for Specific Children's and Young
Adult Books
Authors and Illustrators
Other Children's Literature Web Sites
Children's & Young Adult Awards for Books,
Videos, Software & Recordings
Finding Reviews of Children's and Young Adult Books
Print Resources for Reviews
 Starred
items are especially recommended
Title:
Children's Literature Review
Location: EMC Reference 1st Floor North
Call Number: EMC Ref. Z 1037.A1 C5
Description: Excerpts from reviews on books for children and young people.
This excellent resource provides literary criticism, interviews with an
author and critiques of individual titles. There is a biography of every
author whose work is reviewed. To search this index go to the back of
the last volume in the set and find your author's name. You can also search
this multi-volume set by title.
Title: Book Review Digest
Location: Reference 1st Floor South
Call Number: Ref. Z 1219.C96
Description: Citations to and excerpts from reviews of children's books
Title: Book Review Index
Location: Reference 1st Floor South
Call Number: Ref. Z 1035.A1 B6
Description: Provides citations to reviews of children's books.
Title: Children's Book Review Index
Location: EMC Reference 1st Floor North
Call Number: EMC Ref. PN 1009.A1 C4
Description: Provides citations to reviews of children's books. Locate
the index that corresponds to your book's copyright date. Each index in
the series is clearly labeled by year on the spine. Locate the authors’
name or title of your book. You will find both a list of books that the
author wrote that year and a list of journal/newspapers where the book
is review. Please note that on the first several page of each index are
the title of the review sources and their abbreviations. For example,
SLJ is School Library Journal.
Online Databases with Reviews
Starred
items are especially recommended
Books
in Print
You can also access this from the library's Journal Article Databases A-Z.
Search tip: be sure to change the drop down menu next to the search box
from "Keyword" to "Title." Items in the results list that have a start
next to them include book reviews. Once you retrieve information about
the book, make sure you click on the tab labeled "title reviews" in order
to access the review.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
You can also access this from the library's Journal Article Databases A-Z. Masterfile
Premier
You can also access this from the library's Journal Article Databases A-Z.
Toward the bottom of the page, you will see a box headed "document type."
Within that box, scroll down until you come to "book review." Click on
"book review." Type the title of the book or author's name in the search
box.
Web Sites with Reviews
Starred
items are especially recommended
www.amazon.com
Good source of reviews for all kinds of books.
www.titlewave.com
Excellent source of full text reviews from numerous publications. Need
to register, but it's free. Well worth the effort.
www.ala.org/booklist (Booklist)
Provides reviews of recently published books.
Selecting Children's and Young Adult Books by Age, Grade, Genre, etc.
Barahona Center: Recommended Books in English About Latinos Database
This is a searchable database of over 700 books “intended to provide students in kindergarten through high school with an understanding of, and appreciation for, the people, history, art, and political, social, and economic problems” in Spanish speaking countries and cultures. You can customize your search by age, grade, setting, theme, etc.
Bowker's Children's Room (a subsection of Books in Print)
Find books by age or lexile level. An online version of the subject guide "A to Zoo" is also available here. Children's
Picture Book Database at Miami University
The database contains abstracts of over 5,000 picture books for children,
preschool to grade 3. One can search by using over 900 keywords (topics,
concepts and skills) to locate books with storylines adaptable to your
particular curriculum or program.
Database of Award Winning Children's
Literature
This database has over 7,000 annotated records of titles drawn from 78
children's literature awards. The purpose of the database is to
create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to
find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards.
Recommended Literature Search: Reading and Language Arts
Search this database of outstanding literature for children and adolescents
using specific criteria. This database is also valuable for assignments
requiring the identification of read-aloud books.
TeachersFirst.com
Recommended books listed by grade level. Titlewave.com
Titlewave enables users to create booklists on a particular topic by grade level. First, you'll need to login (it's free). Then click on the oblong button toward the top of the page that says “collection development.”
Lesson Plans for Specific Children's and Young Adult Books
CyberGuides: Teacher guides and student activities
Lesson plans for children's and young adult literature.
Children's Literature Index
The
Children's Literature Index
provides access to books and web sites that contain
useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults,
and the creators of those books.
Authors and Illustrators
Something About the Author
EMC Ref. PN 451.S6
This multi-volume set, housed in the EMC Reference Collection, should be your first choice for detailed information about authors and illustrators. Something About the Author is a set of over 140 volumes and includes not only well-known writers and artists but also less prominent individuals whose works are just coming to be recognized.
Meet Authors and Illustrators (via Childrenslit.com)
Extensive list of links to web sites providing biographical and other information about children's and YA authors.
Biographies Plus
This is an online database which is available to students, staff, and faculty at UW Oshkosh. Biographical information is available for 1,800 authors of children's literature.
Contemporary Authors
This is an online database which is available to students, staff, and faculty at UW Oshkosh. Provides biographies of a wide variety of authors, including some children's & young adult book authors.
TeachingBooks.net
Offers in-depth interviews with authors, comprehensive bibliographies of authors' works, and relevant links. This resource requires registration, which is free.
Author Biography and Autobiography Page
A list of books, compiled by Kay E. Vandergrift, about the lives of children's and YA authors.
Other Children's Literature Web Sites
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature
Site
A collection of reviews of books for children, ideas of ways to use them
in the classroom, and collection of books and activities about particular
subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
Children's Book Council (CBC)
The Children's Book Council (CBC) is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of children's books, and is the official sponsor of Young People's Poetry Week and Children's Book Week every year. Includes bibliographies, reading activities, articles on children's books, biographical information on children's and YA authors and illustrators.
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project
Large collection of illustrated antique books online.
Children's Literature Web
Guide: Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and
Young Adults
Includes children's lists of children's book awards, bibliographies, children's
literature organizations, resources for teachers, and book reviews.
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature
Features of this site include links to children's and YA authors' and illustrators' websites, bibliographies, and eBooks.
imaginary lands
A directory of links related to children's literature.
International Children's Digital Library
Online versions of children's books from throughout the world.
Kay E. Vandergrift's Special Interest Page
A wealth of information on children's and young adult literature. Includes information about multicultural issues in children's and YA literature, visual interpretive analysis page, a cyber library, and much more.
Picturing Books
A website about picture books.
TeachingBooks.net
Teaching resources, thematic booklists, links to hundreds of award lists, author information, etc. You'll need to register, but it's free.
Children's & Young Adult Awards for Books, Videos, Software & Recordings
Aesop Prize
"The Aesop Prize and Aesop Accolades are conferred annually by the Children's
Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society upon English language
books for children and young adults, both fiction and nonfiction."
Américas
Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
"The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction,
poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works
for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish
that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean,
or Latinos in the United States."
Andrew
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video
"The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video, supported
by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, was awarded for the first time
in 1991 to honor outstanding video productions for children released during
the previous year. The annual award is given to the video's producer by
the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of
ALA, through a Carnegie endowment."
Association
for Library Service to Children - Notable Books
"Each year ALSC identifies the best of the best in children's books, recordings,
videos, and computer software."
Association
for Library Service to Children - Notable Children's Recordings
"Each year ALSC identifies the best of the best in children's books, recordings,
videos, and computer software."
Association
for Library Service to Children - Notable Children's Videos
"Each year ALSC identifies the best of the best in children's books, recordings,
videos, and computer software."
Association
for Library Service to Children - Notable Computer Software for Children
"Each year ALSC identifies the best of the best in children's books, recordings,
videos, and computer software."
Bank Street College of Education Awards
Awards given to books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Ben Franklin Awards
"Named in honor of America's most cherished publisher/printer, the Benjamin
Franklin Award recognizes excellence in independent publishing. Publications,
grouped by genre are judged on editorial and design merit by top practitioners
in each field. The trophies are awarded to the best books in several categories"
Best Books for Young
Adults
Books selected must meet the "criteria of both good literary quality and
popular reading appeal for teens, ages 12 - 18." Sponsored by the Young
Adult Library Services Association.
Booklist Editors' Choice
Annual list of best books from Booklist. Boston Globe - Horn Book
Awards
"Awarded annually since 1967, the Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards for
Excellence in Children's Literature honor outstanding titles in three
categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book."
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Awards
Blue Ribbons are chosen annually by the Bulletin staff and represent what is believed to be the best of the previous year's literature for youth.
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."
Carter G. Woodson Award
"The National Council for Social Studies established the Carter G. Woodson
Book Awards for the most distinguished social science books appropriate
for children that depict ethnicity in the United States. The Award hopes
to encourage the writing and reading of outstanding books that depict
ethnic minorities and race relations sensitively and accurately."
Charlotte Zolotow
Award
"The Charlotte Zolotow Award is given annually to the author of the best
picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year.
Established in 1998, the award is named to honor the work of Charlotte
Zolotow, a distinguished children's book editor for 38 years with Harper
Junior Books, and author of more than 70 picture books . . . The award
is administered by the Cooperative Children's Book Center, a children's
literature library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison."
Children's Africana Book Awards
Awards focus specifically on books published in the United States about Africa. Coretta
Scott King Award
"The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott
King Task Force of the American Library's Association Social Responsibilities
Round Table. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent
whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciate of the
'American Dream.'"
Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla
Award
Recipients of this award must be writers or illustrators who were born
in Wisconsin, currently living in Wisconsin, or lived in Wisconsin for
a significant length of time.
Golden Archer Awards
(Above link goes to WEMTA homepage - go to "Awards/Grants" in the left menu and select "Golden Archer Awards". On the next page, click on "Winners" on the left navigation bar.) The Golden Archer Award is presented to authors of books nominated by students. Nominations are compiled by the WEMTA (Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association) Golden Archer Award Committee and sent back to all schools for the students to vote.
Golden Duck Awards for
Excellence in Children's Science Fiction Literature
"The Golden Duck Awards consist of three cash awards given annually in
the categories of Picture Book, Middle Grades (Eleanor Cameron Award),
and Young Adult (Hal Clement Award)."
The Golden Kite Award
"The Golden Kite Award is the only award presented to children's book
authors and artists by their fellow authors and artists. Four Golden Kite
Statuettes - for fiction, non-fiction, picture book text, and picture-illustration
- are awarded each year to the most outstanding children's books published
during that year and having been written or illustrated by members of
the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. An Honor Book
plaque in each category is awarded as well."
The Horn Book Fanfare List
Horn Book's annual choices for the best books of the previous year.
The Irma Simonton
Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature
"The Award goes to an outstanding book for young children - a book in
which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging
on the other to produce a singular whole."
Jane
Addams Children's Book Award
"The Jane Addams Children's Book Award has been presented annually since
1953 by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
and the Jane Addams Peace Association to the children's book of the preceding
year that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice
and world community."
Michael L. Printz Award
"The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary
excellence in young adult literature."
Mildred
L. Batchelder Award
Established in 1966, this is "awarded to an American publisher for a children's
book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published
in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated
into English and published in the United States."
National Science Teachers Association:
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
"The books that appear in these lists were selected as outstanding children's
science trade books. They were selected by a book review panel appointed
by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and assembled in cooperation
with the Children's Book Council (CBC). NSTA and CBC have cooperated on
this bibliographic project since 1973."
Newbery
Award
The Newbery Medal "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 in the English Language Arts
Sponsored by the Children's Literature Assembly, which promotes quality literature written for children and recognizes outstanding trade books as the Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts.
Notable Social Studies Books for Young People
These books are written primarily for children in grades K-8. The selection
committee looks for books that emphasize human relations, represent a
diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural
experiences, present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional
topic, are easily readable and of high literary quality, and have a pleasing
format and, when appropriate, illustrations that enrich the text.
Orbis Pictus Award
for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
"Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, has established
an annual award for promoting and recognizing excellence in the writing
of nonfiction for children. The name Orbis Pictus, commemorates the work
of Johannes Amos Comenius, Orbis Pictus-The World in Pictures (1657),
considered to be the first book actually planned for children."
Pura Belpré Award
"The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented 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."
Robert
F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
"The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the Association
for Library Service to Children in 2001, is awarded annually to the author
of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding
year."
Schneider Family Book Award
This award honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
School
Library Journal - Best Books
From the thousands of books reviewed in SLJ, the editors select those
that "represent the best of the year's picture books, fiction, and nonfiction."
Science Writing
Award
Award winning children's books in physics and astronomy issued by the
American Institute of Physics.
Scott O'Dell Award
for Historical Fiction
"The annual award of $5,000 goes to a meritorious book published in the
previous year for children or young adults."
Teachers' Choices (International Reading Association)
Each year since 1989 the International Reading Association's Teacher Choices project has identified outstanding trade books published for children and adolescents that teachers find to be exceptional in curriculum use.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Awards given to authors and illustrators of beginning books.
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