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Children's books - guide to finding Best Books

Guide to locating recommended juvenile literature

Finding core collection books for kids

These databases list books considered core for a library collection. Check Library catalog for available titles.

Journals for children's book reviews

Primary journals for reviews of children's and young adult books.

The Horn Book
Print and online.
Kirkus Reviews
Print (until 2009) and online (to present).
School Library Journal
Print and online.
Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
Reviews books for older juvenile readers. Print and online.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Online.

Supplemental

TeachingBooks.net
teaching books net

Provides a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. It includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.