Children's Literature Reference Sources

The following reference sources (available on the main floor) are good starting places for compiling background information.

Call Number Areas for Children's Literature are:

PN 840 - PN1008; PR 990; PZ; Z1037-Z1361;

General Listing of Library Resources about Children's Literature (Subject search in the Library Catalog Search) Type in your subject (examples below)

Sample Subject Headings to Locate Reference Sources ( Go to the catalog , copy and paste a term below and limit to Reference by clicking on the arrow next to "view entire selection" and then choose reference)

African American Juvenile Literature

Asian Americans Juvenile Literature
Children's Literature African American
Children's literature American
Children's literature bibliography (for books listing recommended children's books)
Childrens Literature English Bibliography
Children's literature English
Children's literature history and criticism
Children's literature Spanish
Hispanic Juvenile Literature
Latino Juvenile Literature
Minorities juvenile literature

Selected Dictionaires, Encyclopedias and Handbooks of Children's Literature

• 100 most popular children's authors : biographical sketches and bibliographies
  Ref PS490 .M39 1999
• 100 most popular picture book authors and illustrators : biographical sketches and
  bibliographies Ref PS490 .M395 2000
• American writers for children since 1960. Poets, illustrators, and nonfiction authors
  Ref PN451 .D5 v. 61 +
• Authors of books for young people Ref PN452 .W35 1971
• Children's book review index : Master cumulation, 1985-1994 Z1037.A1 C4754 1996 (4 vols)
  
• Children's books in print Ref. Z1037.C57
  Children's literature (a Handbook) Ref PR990 .H85 2001
• Children's literature review Ref PN1009.A1C5545 +
• Eighth book of junior authors and illustrators Ref PN1009.A1 E36 2000
• International companion encyclopedia of children's literature Ref PN1008.5 .I57 1996
  
• Many peoples, one land : a guide to new multicultural literature for children and young
  adults Ref Z1232 .H45 2001
• Master index to summaries of children's books Ref Z1037 .P46 1985 (2 vols)
• Promoting a global community through multicultural children's literature
  Ref Z5814.I5 S74 2001
• Quotation index to children's literature Ref PN6081 .Q593 2001  
• St. James guide to children's writers Ref PN1009.A1 T9 1999 +
• Seventh book of junior authors & illustrators Ref PN1009.A1 S3936 1996
• Something about the author Ref PN451.S6 (144 volumes)
• Twentieth-century children's writers Ref Twentieth-century children's writers (4th ed.)
• Writers for children : critical studies of major authors since the seventeenth century Ref PN1009.A1 W73 1988 +

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