Guides: Children's and Young Adult Literature: Useful Library Databases

Useful Library Databases

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database is the premier single-source, single-search provider of online information to help educators and librarians find just the right books to meet their educational and collection management requirements. CLCD provides professional reviews of children's books, multimedia and audio books as well as national, state, and international award entries dating back to 1922. Subscribers can search by keyword, author, title and subject; and filter by reading level, age, grade and interest level; and then view, sort and distribute the resulting information. In addition, CLCD includes Teaching Tools which shows links to hundreds of web sites with lesson plans and teaching guides.
Biography Reference Center
A comprehensive collection of more than 461,000 full-text biographies.

Something About the Author
Something About the Author Online provides online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's™ acclaimed and long-standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authorsand illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people.

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ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the world's largest and most widely used index to educational-related literature. Supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement and is administered by the U.S. National Library of Education (NLE) it contains over 1.5 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books. Many of these records contain links to the ERIC full-text documents.