LibGuides: LIBM 4023 Materials for Children: Author/Illustrator Assignment

Print Resources

Feel free to use any of these print materials to look up biographical and/or bibliographical information on your selected author or illustrator:

American Writers for Children Call # Ref. PN 451 .D32

Behind the Covers Call # Ref. Z1037 .A1 R65 1985

Best Books for Children Call # Ref. Z1037 .G48 2002

Biographical Index to Children's and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators Call # Ref Z1037 .A1 L597 1992

Booklist Call # Z1035 A.49

Books for the Journey: Guide to the world of reading Call # Z1003 .B7195 2003 (main collection)

Children's Literature Review Call # Ref PN1009.A1 C5139

Contemporary Authors Call # Ref. PN451 .C59

Fourth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators Call # Ref PN 1009 .A! S3936

The Horn Book Magazine Call # Z1037 .A1 A15

Kirkus Reviews Call # Z477.5 (online journal for NSU; find through library catalog)

Oxford Companion to Children's Literature Call # Ref PN 1008.5 .C37 1984 (BA & JVL)

St. James Guide to Children's Writers Call # Ref PN 1009.A1 T9 1999

School Library Journal Call # Z675.S3 S29115

Something About the Author Call # Ref. PN451 .S6

Who's Who of Children's Literature Call # Ref PN 452 .D6 1968b

Writers for Children Call # Ref PN 1009 .A1W73 1988

Useful Databases

Something About the Author (Gale Literature)
provides electronic access to all volumes of Something About the Author and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series. This critically acclaimed series spotlights more than 12,000 individuals in entries that typically cover personal life, career, writings, adaptations, and additional sources. Autobiographical essays average about 10,000 words and discuss the author's career, interests and motivation, among other topics.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
This database indexes more than 15 million individuals, living and deceased, covered in more than 1700 biographical reference sources.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
The world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database, Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s researcher. Its rich critical, biographical and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills.

Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.

Search Tips for Names

In order to obtain the maximum number of records, make sure to check all possible forms under which a name may be listed. This is especially true in the cases of:

Names with prefixes or suffixes:

Angeles, Victoria De Los
De Los Angeles, Victoria
Los Angeles, Victoria De

Compound surnames:

Garcia Lorca, Federico
Lorca, Federico Garcia

Names which appear in inverted order:

Chiang Kai Shek
Kai Shek, Chiang

Names transliterated from non-Roman alphabets:

Hsiang, Chung-Hun
Xiang, Zhonghua

Pseudonyms, stage names, or nicknames:

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
Twain, Mark
Crosby, Bing
Crosby, Harry Lillis
Handler, Daniel
Snicket, Lemony

Initials or middle names used in place of full names:

Eliot, T.S.
Eliot, Thomas Stearns
Welles, George Orson
Welles, Orson

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