Cabrillo College Library

Images from Early Children's Books & Illustrations and Raggedy Ann Stories

 

 

Children's Literature

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Find Information about Authors -- Literature Resource Center

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Click on Literature Resource Center (In center column, under Literature.) If you are coming in from off campus, type in your library card number to gain access.

    You can search by author name, by title, by keyword, etc. Author search is the default.

    Your notes:

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    Want to browse to see which children's authors are covered?

    1. Click on Authors by Type
    2. Change Genre option box to Children's literature
    3. Click on Search (green button at bottom)

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Find Information about Authors -- Biography Resource Center

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Click on Biography Resource Center (In middle column, under Encyclopedias/Background Information )

    You'll probably use the Name Search (default). But, using the Advanced Search, you can also search by keyword, e.g., children's literature.

    Your notes:_______________________________________

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More research -- look for books and periodical articles

BOOKS -- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage, and click on Library Catalog. Some useful subject headings to use:

  • Children -- Books and reading
  • Children's literature
  • Picture books for children

PERIODICAL ARTICLES -- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles.

Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier are the main databases to use.

Best to use the Advanced Search mode. And click to limit your search to full text.

ELECTRONIC BOOKS -- The library has 18,000 book titles available electronically (they're called eBooks). Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage, and click on Full Text Articles, then on NetLibrary E-Books (under General, top left). Amazing what is available!!

Make notes here about the books and periodical articles you found:

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General Internet resources

Illustrations/Illustrators

Time periods

Of peoples and places

Banning and censorship

Awards

Online periodicals about children's literature

Specialized sources Seussville || Treasure Island || William Steig || World of Peter Rabbit

Transferring an Image from the Web to a Word document -- Most of you probably know how to do this, but if you don't.......

The Web is rich in images. If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. At the minimum, give the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy and paste the URL into your Word document -- highlight the URL, then Ctrl C to copy; Ctrl V to paste).

To find an image --

  • Go to Corbis and type in children's books
  • Go to Gettyimages and type in children's books
  1. Select an image from one of the above sources
  2. Right click on the image. Scroll down to Copy
  3. Open a Word document (if you don't already have one open) -- START -> Programs -> Word
  4. Paste the picture (File -> Paste; or, use Ctl V)
  5. Under (or near) the image, type the word Source and include the title of the Web site and its complete URL.

Your image is there. You can write next to and below the image. To put text
around the image -- click on the image, go to Format -> Picture. Click on Wrapping tab, and select the wrapping format you want (tight usually works well).

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To get to this page on the Internet

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on English
  4. Scroll down to Course-related materials, and click on English 20B, Children' Literature, C. Kore

C. Kore, T. N. Smalley, last rev. 3/07