LIS 203: Intro to Children's Literature

The Enterprise PreK-12 comprehensive resource covers children’s literature books and media from beginning readers to young adults. It includes over 1.2 million titles and supporting content such as 600K professional reviews, 1.25K award sources representing 110K book awards, reading measurement programs, author links, lesson plans, and teaching guides. The Enterprise search engine offers 50 search filters and an 18 STEM terms search feature. It’s an excellent tool for selecting trade books, creating thematic reading lists, annotated bibliographies, interpreting reviews, and developing classroom collections.

Provides a comprehensive source to locate critical reviews of books and authors. It is a database that allows searching by author's name or title of a book to find critical information about that author or the title being searched. It is made up of a compilation of excerpts from reviews, criticism, and commentary on major authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. It is primarily critical, but does have overviews of the writer's work and a short biographical section about the author. If you are looking for book reviews from periodicals like School Library Journal, The Horn Book, or Booklist, this is the database to use.