Research Guides: Children's and Teens' Resources: Reviews & Authors

Find Reviews in Databases

Full text book reviews are included in Children's Literature Comprehensive Database and Books in Print. Book Review Digest Plus has selected full text. The Core Collection databases provide citations for reviews, and full text may be available via ArticleLinker.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
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Describes books, video recordings, and sound recordings for children and young adults, as well as works about children’s literature, with selected full text reviews
Book Review Digest Plus This link opens in a new window
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Selected full text book reviews
Children's Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Describes recommended fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, magazines, audiobooks, and web resources for children from preschool through grade 6
Middle & Junior High Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Describes recommended fiction or nonfiction works, magazines, and other resources for children in grades 5 through 9
Senior High Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Describes recommended fiction or nonfiction works, magazines, and other resources for adolescents in grades 9 through 12

Selected Journals with Reviews

Find Reviews from a Citation

If a database does not provide full text for a review, search the title of the journal in the Journals List to see if full text is available from another source:

You also can access information from the Journals List in some database search results (look for Find It @ UHCL links). If you don't find full text online, submit an article request.

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Databases: Find Information about Authors & Illustrators

Gale Literature: Something About the Author This link opens in a new window
Full text essays cover the life, writings, critical reception, and more for authors and illustrators in all genres of English-language literature for children and young adults
Children's Literature Review This link opens in a new window
Covers over 600 writers and illustrators of works for children and young adults
TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
Includes meet-the-author videos, interviews, and more, book guides and lesson plans, and other multimedia resources to enrich K-12 reading education
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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Full text plot summaries, critical essays, author biographies, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, and more