Hale Library Resources:

• Links From Hale Library These are databases that your library fees pay for. Use them!
  • Under "Literature," try "Literature Resource Center" first, under "L".
  • Under "All Subjects," for book reviews published since 1980, try "Lexis-Nexis"
  • Under "All Subjects," for full-text articles and other references, use "Expanded Academic ASAP"
  • Under "Literature," for citations of scholarly work in children's literature, try the "MLA Bibliography."
• Library Databases that Index Full-Text Articles from Literature Journals:
  • Expanded Academic ASAP (Horn Book Magazine)
  • Project Muse (Children's Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, Marvels and Tales)
  • JSTOR (over 100 Education and Literature Journals)
• Problems accessing the materials from home? Check out the Library's Guidelines for access information.

• Hale Library (KSU) Subject Guide to Children's Literature Find print resources in Hale Library and reputable on-line resources here. The best and most easily accessible (on the second floor)
  • Children's Literature Review
  • Beacham's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
  • Leading Children's Literature Journals

Authoritative Internet Sources:

Sites Maintained by Scholars of Children's Literature

• Phil Nel's Children's Literature Links K-State's own Phil Nel runs a thorough and up-to-date site.
• Perry Nodelman's exhaustive bibliography of children's literature scholarship (warning: this page is HUGE and takes a long time to download. Use a fast connection.).
• Kay Vandergrift on Censorship and the Public School  Information every teacher should have about censorship. The rest of her website's cool, too. A real internet pioneer.
• Newbery Classroom Home Michael Joseph's site about children's literature.
• Children's Literature Web Guide An extensive site, not consistently updated, sponsored by the College of Education in Calgary, Alberta.

• Of interest: Roger Gibson's Recommended Books for 4th-6th grade. An excellent Manhattan, KS, 4-6th-grade teacher's most-used books.

Important Children's and Young Adult Book Awards

• The Newbery Medal Award for the most distinguished children's book published in America in a given year.
• The Caldecott Medal Award for the most distinguished picture book published in America in a given year.
• The Coretta Scott King Medal Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream."
  
• The Pura Belpre' Medal Award to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
• The Robert F. Sibert Medal Award for distinguished informational books
• The William Allen White Award Award given yearly by Kansas schoolchildren.
• The Boston Globe-Horn Book Magazine Awards First presented in 1967, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for excellence in literature for children and young adults are among the most prestigious honors in the field.
  
• The Printz Prize Award for the most distinguished young adult book published in America in a given year.

Online Journals

• The ALAN Review, an online journal, offers excellent criticism of contemporary Young Adult literature.
• The Horn Book Magazine, the pioneering journal about children's literature

Evaluating Web Sites

• How to Evaluate Internet Resources. If you choose to use other sites, be sure to evaluate them using the guidelines suggested at these sites.

How to Cite This Page:

(for more specific information, see MLA's website on the topic; see also the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library's very helpful site explaining how everything works using color-codes: http://www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm ):

According to guidelines in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (1999), a bibliographic citation follows this order:

1. Author surname, Author firstname.
2. Title (2a, "Title of Page." 2b, Title of Site).
3. Date page was published or last updated.
4. Name of institution associated with the site.
5. Date you accessed the site.
6. The URL of the site.

So, if you accessed Naomi Wood's Website on 28 September 2001, and it had last been updated on 1 December 2000, your citation would look like this:

 

Wood, Naomi. Naomi Wood's Website. 1 Dec. 2000.

Kansas State University. 28 Sept. 2001.

<http://www.ksu.edu/english/naomiw/>.

If you want to credit a particular page of the site (this one, for example), you do so like this:

Wood, Naomi. "Suggestions for Undergraduate Research in

Children's Literature." Naomi Wood's Website. 1 Dec. 2000.

Kansas State University. 28 Sept. 2001.

<http://www.ksu.edu/english/naomiw/classes/research.html>.

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