LibGuides: Education Resources Center: Children's/Young Adult Literature

Children's Literature Databases

TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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.
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window

Searching for Picture Books

To find a picture book in the Education Resources Center, use Ely Library QuickSearch:

Click on Advanced Search over the search box.
In the “Keyword” box, type in NU: PZ1000*
If you are searching for books by an author, type the name in "quotation marks" in the search box next to Author.
If you wish to search for a topic instead, change the drop down box to Keyword and type in your topic.
Enter your search terms in the search box

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!

Picture Books for Older Students

Online Reading & Listening

Reading Engagement Activities
Bring to life the books your students/children are reading. Awaiting you are 172,000+ videos, audio recordings, activities, and lessons to enrich virtual learning, nicely organized into "For Children & Teens" & "For Educators & Adults"
KidLit Online Reading & Activities
This spreadsheet is a mess of reading activities for pre-K to middle grade. It is worth the wade, but since it is no longer updated, take time to search for the featured authors' names if they do not at first appear in a web site!

A few publishers sites that offer readings:

Literacy Activities

Reading for Social Justice: A Guide for Families and Educators
NOTE: This is a safe download.
By Ana Contreras and Julia Delacroix.
From LearningforJustice.org
Edutopia: Literacy
Find and share strategies for helping students read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about the written word.

Children's / Young Adult Literature

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

Awards, Notable, and Outstanding Book Lists

Caldecott Award Books in the ERC by Title
List of titles, authors/illustrators, and call numbers for award winners that are available in the Westfield State ERC Collection.
Newbery Award Books in the ERC by Title
Find titles, authors/illustrators, and call numbers for award winners that are available in the Westfield State ERC Collection.

Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present "The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children."
List of Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present (PDF) "The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."
American Indian Youth Literature Award
This medal is awarded biennially and is administered by the American Indian Library Association (AILA), an affiliate of the ALA.
Balpré Medal "The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."
Coretta Scott King Awards "The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values."
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
Best Young Adult Books
Banned & Challenged Books
American Library Association
Pertains to all books, not only children's titles

Mentor Texts In ERC Collection

Mentor Texts in the Education Resources Center
These lists were initially created by Hello Literacy's Jen Jones for Reading Literature (RL) standards 1-10 for grades K-2. Here at the ERC, we have edited and expanded these lists to reflect books that are available in our collection for your convenience and instruction.

Guides to Multicultural Children's Books

Multicultural Children's Books in the ERC
Here find a selection of titles available in the Westfield State University Library's Education Resources Center (ERC) that represent or illustrate various cultures.
RIF's Multicultural Book List
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Created by Reading is Fundamental
50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know

Picture Book Study

Picture Book Study Resources