Children's & Young Adult Literature Subject Guide
Literary Criticism & Book Reviews
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Literary Criticism
Full-text biographies, critical essays and reviews, poems, short stories and plays of more than 130,000 international authors. This database contains the full content of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and selections from Children's Literature Review, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and 11 other literary criticism series. Database has export features for Refworks, Endotes and Procite.
Children's Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People
PN 1009 .A1 C5139 (Ref)
Each volume of this international set includes excerpts from reviews and criticism (from both books and journals) of approximately 20-40 authors. Articles are extensive and users should use the index in the most recent volume to determine in which volume to locate a particular author or illustrator. The WMU Libraries own many of the books and journals whose reviews are excerpted in this multi-volume reference set.
Book Reviews
Provides reviews of general interest and some scholarly books published in the US since 1965. This doesn't have the excerpts from reviews that Book Review Digest provides, nor does it go back to 1905, but it does index many more periodicals.
Print: Z 1035 .A1 B6 (Ref)
Children's Book Review Index
Z 1037 .A1 C47x (Ref)
Provides citations to book reviews of children's books that are taken from the listings in the more comprehensive source, Book Review Index.
Horn Book Index, 1924-1989.
Z 1037 .A1 A15 supp (Ref)
Includes citations to reviews of children's books that have been published in the popular children's journal, Horn Book, from 1924 until 1989.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
Indexes periodicals and series, monographs, book collections, dissertation abstracts, Festschriften (books written to honor a particular scholar), and other sources. Areas covered include modern languages and literature, folklore, linguistics, literary themes, genres, and related topics across national literatures and other classified boundaries. Covers from 1963 to the present. Updated 9 times per year. Has citation tools for Refworks, Endotes and Procite. It also has a personal folder option to save articles and citations.
Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)
InfoTrac General Reference Center Gold
An index of general interest articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books on all subjects. Many entries provide full-text and images. Coverage: 1980-present.
Indexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1971.
Librarian's Comment: A great source for reviews of children's books.