Book Review Warning
Book review articles are essays that describe whether someone should purchase a book and are not appropriate for use in this course. Book reviews usually have these qualities
- The price and ISBN are included in the article
- There is some general indication of the quality of the book
- There is not a deep, scholarly analysis of the material; i.e. it is a short article
English Language & Literature Research Guide
Other English Language and Literature resources can be found on the English Language and Literature Research Guide.
Books About Your Text
Search for electronic or print children's literature scholarship in books about your chosen text in The Catalog.
- Search the All Fields row for the title of your text
- Search the Subject row for the word Criticism
Children's Literature Reference
These books have reliable, scholarly information about children's texts, authors, and concepts.
- Children's Literature ReviewA compilation of children's literature commentary from 1976-present. Click on the link above, *click on Browse All Topics* and then scroll down to the Children's Literature topics.
- The Oxford Companion to Children's LiteratureA fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature, this volume covers every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns.
- The Essential Guide To Children's Books and Their CreatorsThis volume features numerous essays on social and historical issues, thirty personal glimpses into craft by well-known writers, illustrators, and critics, and invaluable reading lists by category. This guide to children's books and their creators summarizes the canon of relatively contemporary children's literature. Limited to one user at a time.
Databases
Articles, including magazine articles, essays, and scholarly articles about children's literature, can be found in these recommended databases.
- Project MUSEProject Muse provides full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.
- JSTORProvides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences, and to over 6,500 books from more than 85 scholarly publishers worldwide.
- Google ScholarThe Google Scholar search engine that searches for scholarly documents on the World Wide Web, with the added feature of MGet It (labeled as "Availability at UMichigan") links from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor that connect you to the online and print versions held by the University Library.