ENGL 355 - Literature for Children

Library Research Guide

Databases: Literary Research

Use these databases to find journal articles, criticism, and information about children's books.

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
The CLCD is a complete source of information about children’s books, audio recordings, and films. It includes reviews of children’s books and is all full-text searchable. In addition, you can see what awards books have won and read reviews from major publications like Booklist, Horn Book, and Kirkus.
Literature Online
LION is a database of academic journals covering literary and cultural studies.
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
MLA International Bibliography
This is the largest and most comprehensive database for literary criticism in all languages. The MLA also covers, to a lesser degree, subjects such as folklore, linguistics, and film studies.
Project Muse
Full-text database of over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Publishers include Johns Hopkins and other noted academic publishers. Titles include the most widely held and heavily used core titles. Subject include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics and others. Older issues can often be accessed through a link to JSTOR.

Instructions for using this database to find book reviews:

In the keywords box type the title of the work of interest inside quotation marks (e.g., "waste land")
Enter the date range of interest in the Publication Year area.
Click Search

Instructions for using this database to find book reviews:

Click the "Search for Articles" link
In the first box type the title of the work of interest inside quotation marks (e.g., "a farewell to arms")
In the second box type the last name of your author (e.g., hemingway)
Enter the date range of interest in the two boxes after the word "From:"
Click Search

Instructions for using this database to find book reviews:

Click the "Advanced Search" link
In the first box type the title of the work of interest inside quotation marks (e.g., "waste land")
In the second box type the last name of your author (e.g., eliot)
Enter the date range of interest in the "From" and "To" boxes
Click Search

Instructions for using this database to find book reviews:

Click the "Advanced Search" tab
In the first box type the title of the work of interest inside quotation marks (e.g., "waste land")
In the second box type the last name of your author (e.g., eliot)
Change the date range to "earliest to 1960"
Click Search
Change the sort by method to "Oldest First"