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| From the Preface: "A to Zoo can be used to obtain information about children's picture books in two ways: to learn the titles, authors, and illustrators of books on a particular subject, such as 'dragons' or 'weddings'; or to ascertain the subject (or subjects) when only the title, author and title, or illustrator and title are known." Now in its seventh edition, this is a standard reference source for picture books. Read the full annotation |
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| "[I]ntended as a comprehensive single-volume reference source describing the development and current trends in children's literature throughout the world" (Introduction). Read the full annotation |
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| Essay & General Literature Index is an index of essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Bibliographic information comes from more than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications. Subjects focus on the humanities and social sciences, with topics ranging from archeology, children's literature, and fiction to political science, religion, and women's studies. Read the full annotation |
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| Gale's Literary Index is a free index to more than 130 literary criticism and literary biography reference sets. Hekman owns many of these reference sets (up to 2008) in print in the Reference Collection; read the full annotation to see a list of the sets owned by the library (with call numbers). Online full-text access is also available for a number of these titles (selected coverage from 1998-current) through the database Literature Resource Center. Read the full annotation |
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| Humanities Abstracts contains abstracts (summaries) of feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. It indexes nearly 600 journals covering a variety of subjects in the humanities, including philosophy, film, folklore, religion, music, and the performing arts. Read the full annotation |
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| Offers more of a theoretical as well as international approach to children's literature, with essays on critical approaches, forms and genres, cultural contexts, and literatures of other countries. Read the full annotation |
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| A professor and long-time scholar of children's literature, Vandergrift has compiled a large web site devoted to its academic and critical study. Read the full annotation |
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| LRC is primarily a literature criticism database, comprised of the complete Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, selected coverage from ten Gale literature criticism series, many single set literary monographs, and a large periodical file of literature titles containing biographies, criticism, essays and more. Articles and entries are all full-text. (Note that Hekman Library also owns some of these literature resources in print; see Gale's Literary Index for an index to the print materials.) Read the full annotation |
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| The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books,
articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures,
folklore, and linguistics. MLA International Bibliography dates back
to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400
periodicals and 1,000 book publishers. Subscription to the MLA International Bibliography also includes access
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| SATA provides brief biographies of authors and illustrators of children's and young adult books; it also gives plot summaries of some of each author's best-loved works. Read the full annotation |
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