Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Education:
Children's Literature Resources
Children's literature resources are in Rutgers University Libraries and on the WWW. Both guides and actual collections are placed in
this section. Out-of-copyright collections, international collections, and guides to themes, publishers, authors and
lessons attached to specific resources make up the majority of the web-based resources.
RU Libraries = Available at the specified Rutgers University Library
RU Libraries-Specific = Available to Rutgers students, faculty, and staff.
WWW = World Wide Web resource, available to all. URLs are included for convenience.
RU Libraries Specific Resources
- Characters in Children's Literature
- ALEXANDER REF PN1009.A1J78 1997
- Characters in Young Adult Literature
- ALEXANDER REF PN1009.A1G47 1997
- Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
- ALEXANDER REF PN1008.5.I57 1996
- The Children's Literature Dictionary: Definitions, Resources, and Learning Activities
- ALEXANDER REF PN 1008.5.L38 2002
- Twentieth Century Children's Writers
- ALEXANDER REF PN 1009.A1T9 1995
Databases
Use ERIC for information on children's literature themes.
“Children's literature” is a descriptor in the ERIC Thesaurus. Other databases may be relevant depending upon
your question. It would be worth while to consult a Reference Librarian about your question to find which
databases to use.
Collections: Metropolitan New York area
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, College Avenue Campus. Zimmerli Museum: often exhibits children's book
illustrations. Currently, an exhibit called: Oh! Those Mice! features the original artwork for two children's
books featuring mice as characters.
Princeton University. The Cotsen Children's Library is a rich historical collection of 23,000 illustrated children's
books on deposit at Princeton University. Early editions of Perrault's fairy tales, Newbery family imprints, moveable
and novelty books, children's songbooks, Soviet Constructivist picture books, and a rich array of other printed books
dating from the 16th to 20th centuries are all in the collection. The Cotsen collection has literature in more than 40
languages, but primarily in the major Western European languages, Hebrew and Japanese. The collection is open to
researchers by appointment with the Curator.
- The Cotsen Gallery [Princeton]
- features an interactive exhibit for children to take delight in the literature written especially for them.
Take a virtual tour through the Collection Highlights.
- URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~cotsen/research/index.shtml
WWW Resources
- SCILS Professor Kay Vander Grift's Special Interests Page
- includes the History of Children's Literature, as well as a Social History of Children's Literature.
- URL: http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/
- Children's Literature Web Guide Ed Brown, University of Calgary
- includes Authors & Illustrators on the Web, Resources for Teachers, Best Books Lists, Best Books Lists,
as well as textbook publisher's sites and thematic sections.
- URL: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
- Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project
- URL: http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/index.htm
- Doucette Index. K-12 Literature Based Lesson Ideas
- Although the site refers to plans and ideas based in the books in
The Doucette Library of Teaching Resources,
it is likely that many of the books will be found in other libraries. The search interface includes a list
of the books indexed.
- URL: http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/
- Spy - Fi Archives: 40 Years of TV and Movie Spy Fiction
- URL: http://www.cia.gov/spy_fi/index.html
- Online e-books for young readers, from University of Virginia's E-Texts
- URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-young.html
Book Reviews
- Book Hive
- URL: http://www.bookhive.org/
- Book Muse
- URL: http://bookmuse.com/
- BookSpot
- URL: http://www.bookspot.com/reviews/
- Children's Literature - Electronic Journals and Book Reviews
- URL: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Edkbrown/journals.html
