Children's Literature & Literacy

Bloom's Literature is a source for information on contemporary and classic writers from around the world. Bloom's offers information, research tools, and sources including e-books, images, timelines, and videos.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, is an index of education-related journal articles and materials from scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers, policy organizations, university presses, the U.S. Department of Education, and other governmental agencies. This link connects to the free government hosted version of the database.

Explora for Elementary and Primary Students offers a search interface that is easy for K-5 students to use when looking for articles, books, and encyclopedias on a variety of topics, including animals, art, music, geography, language arts, math, science, and social studies. The database is relevant to students enrolled in MCC's Alternative Teacher Certification Program, students taking Child Development courses, and students or community members with school-age children.

Explora for High School is an easy-to-use search interface for students in grades 6-12 looking for magazine and newspaper articles, books, informational texts, primary sources, multimedia, and more on a variety of curriculum-related topics. The MCC Library lists this resource for students in the Alternative Teacher Certification program, its relevance to community members visiting the library, and its relevance to MCC students with school-age children.

Gale Books and Authors is a book recommendation resource for readers of all ages, with information about fiction and non-fiction pulled from book lists dating back to the early 1900s.

Gale Literature is a multisearch interface bringing together 7 of the top literature databases from Gale, including Gale Literature Resource Center and Gale Literature Criticism.

Gale Literature Criticism brings together full-text and excerpts from critical essays on drama, poetry, and short stories representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres.

Gale Literature Resource Center provides access to author biographical information, work overviews, full-text literary criticism, and authoritative reviews on more than 130,000 published novelists in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.

An easy-to-use online resource that provides multimedia content to complement children's and young adult books. Resources include audio book readings, book discussion guides, lesson plans, and more, for over 40,000 children’s and young adult books in English and Spanish.