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Book Reviews and Children's Book Trade Lists:

►You can search for  "What Do I Read Next?" or "BOOKS and AUTHORS" in Gale to generate lists of children's trade books by award listing, genre, author, character.

 

Specific print recommendations:

Accessing the classics: great reads for adults, teens and English language learners.  Describes works of perennial and timely interest.    Z1035 .R825 2006

Caldecott Connections to Science / Shan Glandon, TEP LB1585.3 .G53 2000

Children's Catalog, 17th -- 19th editions, with annual supplements at: REF Z 1037 .C5443 provide subject classification to selected children's literature as keyed to the Dewey Decimal System.

Children's Literature: a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter, PN 1009 .A1 L44 2008

Contemporary Authors, REF Z 1224 .C6, vol. 1 - 225, reviews works of contemporary artists, including works on high school reading lists.

Dictionary of American Young Adult Fiction: Books of Recognized Merit, REF PS374 .Y57 H45 2004, is a bio-bibliographic sourcebook reviewing authors and books by name. Also provides a List of Books by Award designation.

Handbook for the Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1980-1989 can be found at: LB 1575.5 .U5 A46 1991

Masterworks of Children's Literature, Reference Stacks PN 1008.8 .C67

Newbery and Caldecott Awards: a subject index. REF Z1037 .A2 N456 2003

The Newbery and Caldecott awards : a guide to the medal and honor books can be found at: REF Z1037 .A2 N472 2003

Newbery and Caldecott medal books, 1966-1975 : with acceptance papers, biographies, and related material chiefly from the Horn book magazine: REF Z1037 .A2 N48 1975

Newbery and Caldecott medalists and honor book winners : bibliographies and resource material through 1977 : REF Z1037.A2 N5 1982

Oxford Companion to Children's Literature , REF PN 1088.5 .C37 1984, is an alphabetically arranged dictionary of primarily English and American children's books, authors, illustrators, characters by compilers Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard.

Book Lists, Reviews, and Teacher Aids

Children's Lit Review Journals

Print:

 See the CULTURE, CHILDREN'S BOOKS section

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Social Education also regularly reviews children's literature. 

eJournals:

Reading Research and Instruction

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