Finding Author and Illustrator Information
Author & Illustrator Biographical Information
Print Resources
- Something About the Author - REFERENCE PN451 .S6
- Children's Literature Review - REFERENCE Z1037.A1 C5
- The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators - IMC PROF Z1232 .E85 2002
- Profiles in Children’s Literature : Discussions with Authors, Artists, and Editors - IMC PROF PS490 .W45 2001
- Children's Literature Journals
- We subscribe to several journals that profile authors and illustrators, such as Bookbird, Library Sparks, Children's Literature, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Journal of Children's Literature, Children's Literature in Education, School Library Journal, Horn Book, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Book Links, The Reading Teacher, Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) and more.
- These journals may be found on the 2nd floor, filed alphabetically, or in the IMC, while some are only available with online access.
- Use the periodicals list to see where the journal may be accessed
- Voyager Catalog subject headings to search for more print materials:
- Children's literature--Illustrations
- Children's literature--Illustrations--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries
- Illustrators --Juvenile literature
- Illustrators --Biography
- Authors, American--20th century--Interviews
Online Resources
- Contemporary Authors - Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
- Literature Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index - This database is an index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.
- Biographies Plus Illustrated (Wilson) - Contains the full text of 95,000 biographies from more than 100 print reference books published by H.W. Wilson including Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, and World Artists.
- Academic Search Elite - A general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200. Try including the keyword "interview" to narrow your search.
Education Research Complete: We just subscribed to a new EBSCO database that is the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. The database covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues, provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals
and contains full text for nearly 830 journals. - Education Full Text* - Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a great source for education research.
- Library Literature Full Text* - A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere.
- Teaching Books - First time users will need to create an account before using. This free product through Badgerlink covers children's and young adult literature. Includes video interviews with authors, activity Guides, valuable Links and lists of awards.
- CCBC Web Resources - includes webcasts of speeches by a wide range of authors, artists and others in the children’s and young adult literature field who have spoken at CCBC events, unique information on Wisconsin authors and artists, and more.
*TIP: You can search both of these databases simultaneously by clicking on the "Open Database Selection Area" at the top of the screen once you're in either database.
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Reader's Advisory
Print Resources
Online Resources
- TitleTales - Book Wholesalers, Inc. is a vendor that allows free access for librarians. It has a pretty good search with annotations and reviews attached to many records. Their staff of librarians also creates subject bibliographies. If you'd like to use this log on using my name and password -- log in: tvaruzke, password: ellaanna
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - Over 900,000 records and more than 130,000 reviews of children's books. The CLCD database includes entries for more than 200,000 awards, prizes, best book list and reading list entries. When you search for and find books, you will also see what awards the books have won and what lists they have made.
- Teaching Books - First time users will need to create an account before using. This free product through Badgerlink covers children's and young adult literature. Includes video interviews with authors, activity Guides, valuable Links and lists of awards.
- Books in Print - Click on the "Children's Room" link at the top of the page.
- McIntyre Library's online catalog (Voyager)
- Click on subject headings to find other similar books at the library
- Search for books that include thematic bibliographies
- Limit the location to the IMC to narrow your search
- L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library - The Eau Claire Public Library has access to some good online reader's advisory databases, including What Do I Read Next? (under "Reader's Corner") and Novelist (under "General Research") . Free access is provided to these as long as you go through their library's website and have an active library card.
- MORE online catalog - click on subject headings to find other similar books at public libraries in the MORE system
- Children's and Young Adult Book Links - recommended sites from the IMC web pages
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Critical Analysis
Print Resources
Online Resources
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - Over 900,000 records and more than 130,000 reviews of children's books. The CLCD database includes entries for more than 200,000 awards, prizes, best book list and reading list entries. When you search for and find books, you will also see what awards the books have won and what lists they have made.
- Teaching Books - First time users will need to create an account before using. This free product through Badgerlink covers children's and young adult literature. Includes video interviews with authors, activity Guides, valuable Links and lists of awards.
- Academic Search Elite - A general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200. Try including the keyword "interview" to narrow your search.
- Education Research Complete: We just subscribed to a new EBSCO database that is the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. The database covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues, provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals
and contains full text for nearly 830 journals.
- Education Full Text* - Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a great source for education research.
- Library Literature Full Text* - A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere.
*TIP: You can search both of these databases simultaneously by clicking on the "Open Database Selection Area" at the top of the screen once you're in either database.
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Citation City
Evaluating Your Sources
And now for a little fun, as Stephen Colbert analyzes Wikipedia!
