Resource includes meet-the-author movies, book readings, and interviews among thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment. Every resource has been selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is an acquisition, research, and reference database that provides more than 200,000 reviews of children's books. The database is full text searchable from 33 review sources. The CLCD also includes Teaching Tools, such as lesson plans and teaching guides, in addition to entries for more than 339,000 awards, prizes, best book lists and reading lists.
CLCD also contains over 30,000 book jacket images as well as information provided by various Reading Measurement Programs such as Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile, and Reading Counts. Also included are links to more than 60,000 web pages featuring individual authors or illustrators.
To find a picture book in the Education Resources Center, use Ely Library QuickSearch:
NOTE: Make sure to use the * following your call number. For this search you do not need to limit to Education Resources Collection. There are no PZ call numbers in the stacks!
A few publishers sites that offer readings:
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The ERC Collection includes children's literature, which is defined as books that are targeted to children under the age of 12, regardless of who else may read them. There are also books aimed at young adult readers between the ages of 12 and 18.
Call Number Guide for ERC Children's Fiction
Fiction (chapter books, etc.) |
PZ 7 |
Folklore |
PZ 400 |
Poetry |
PZ 600 |
Drama |
PZ 700 |
Basal Readers |
PZ 900 |
Picture Books (fiction) |
PZ 1000 |
Call Number Guide for ERC Children's Non-Fiction Informational Texts and Teaching Materials
Biography |
C |
World History |
D |
American History |
E-F |
Geography |
G |
Sports & Games |
GV |
Social Issues |
H |
Teaching Guides |
L |
Music |
M |
Language Arts |
P |
General Science |
Q |
Math |
QA |
Biology |
QH |
Medicine |
R |
Agriculture (farming, plants, etc.) |
S |
Technology (transportation, computers, etc.) |
T |