You just got your assignment and lo and behold, you need to create an author study. You say that you've never created an author study before? Well, there are many books and websites you can use to help you along.
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.
Access to 223 full-text journals from university press publishers covering multiple topics in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.
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.
Materials in the Educational Resources Center can provide you with information to flesh out what you find online: books by your author, books about your author, biographical information, classroom activity ideas, lesson plans, and more that you can borrow and use to enrich and add interest to lesson plans and classes you conduct as a student teacher.
To search for materials in the ERC, follow these simple instructions.
From the Ely Library QuickSearch (see below for link):
NOTE: Some authors used pseudonyms when writing! (Make sure you know both names and search on both if that is the case.)
