Children's Literature

Indexes to Journal Articles about Children's Books

Note: A comprehensive index to the literature of Children's Literature does not yet exist. Many of the journals that specialize in Children's Literature are not indexed by a commercial or professional indexer (MLA or ERIC); instead, one may need to look within the journals themselves for self-produced indexes.

• Children's Literature Abstracts
  Social Sciences/Humanities Current Periodicals and Hale Stacks: PN1009 .A1
  A journal- index to children's literature.


• Children's Literature Association Quarterly (Summer Issues)
  Social Sciences/Humanities Current Periodicals and Hale Stacks: PN 1008.2 C48
  Summer issues are dedicated to providing citations selected from Children's Literature Abstracts (see above). Citations are listed within borad subject and genre categories.


• Children's Literature Review
  Social Sciences/Humanities Reference: Z 1037 A1 C54 vol. 1-40
  Provides an entry point to the criticism of children's and young adult's literature. Profiles authors and illustrators and provides excerpts of reviews and criticism that have appeared in various journals.


• ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center
  K-State Libraries Computer Network
  An index to the ilterature of education.


• MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
  K-State Libraries Computer Network
  An index to literary criticism.