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Children's and Young Adult Literature Handbook
Libraries Unlimited | John T. Gillespie | Reference | Children's and Young Adult Literature | June 30, 2005 ISBN 10: 1563089491 ISBN 13: 9781563089497 John Gillespie, a respected authority on children’s literature, has compiled this invaluable work to serve as a selection guide and collection development aid for librarians, as well as a navigation tool for researchers. The book describes and evaluates more than 1,000 publications covering the entire spectrum of information sources in the field—from general reference, bibliographies, and biographies to review sources, literary awards, professional organizations, and special library collections. Internet and other nonprint media are included, as are major English-language resources from Britain, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. Can$69.60 [Add to Cart] [View Cart] Also of interest:        “This book is one of the essential tools needed to build a comprehensive collection. Recommended.”—Teacher Librarian, February 2006 “A fine guide to just about every bibliographical source that you could ever track down for juvenile literature. Ranging from retrospective through contemporary to the ubiquitous Internet, he has recorded all the sources in the English language that a researcher could possibly aspire to utilize…. This is a book that should be in every public library, as well as every educational library and every library school.”—Technicalities, May/June 2006 |
