Children's and Young Adult Literature and Criticism: Article Databases

Indexes books, articles, and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.

Indexes published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database provides access to important and relevant information about Pre K-12 media of all types, including reviews from respected publications for those professionals who work with Pre K-12 media. The database also includes information about books, authors, and illustrators around the world.

Explore a stunning collection of rare books, games, ephemera, and artwork from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that reveals the socio-cultural history of these times. Showcasing innovative new publishing methods characteristic of the golden age of children’s literature, from mass-produced chapbooks to richly illustrated ‘book-beautifuls’, this resource examines the way in which new concepts were introduced to young readers, encouraging an engagement with the imagination which went on to fundamentally shape established notions of childhood.

Project MUSE provides full text, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Profiles influential writers via excerpted passages from selected criticism on contemporary authors. Includes resources on Children's Literature.

A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.

Profiles authors of children's and young adult literature of all genres and provides selected full-text or excerpted criticism reproduced from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

A non–profit service that archives over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.

WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world for books, music CDs, and videos. If you find something you want, our Documents on Demand office can order it for you.

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The OED is widely regarded as the most significant dictionary of the English language, offering the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words —past and present— from across the English-speaking world.