Below are suggested resources for your research on your selected author. Remember to consider where a document comes from and its author(s) as well as the information it presents.

 

Literature Resource Center Database (Gale Group). A good place place to begin your research, since these entries will offer an overview of an author's life and work.

Children's Literature Subject Guide (KSU Libraries). This page has links to resources (both print and web) assembled by KSU librarians. Be sure to explore the links to pages on:

• Authors.
• Awards.
• Criticism and Studies.
• Indexes to Journal Articles about Children's Books.
• Journals in the Field.
• Reviews.

Reference Books in the Library. These would also be good places to begin your research:

• Anita Silvey, Children's Books and Their Creators (1995)
• Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard (editors), The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (1984)
• Babara Bader, American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within (1976)
• Leonard S. Marcus, A Caldecott Celebration (1998), Author Talk (2000), and others
• the Something About the Author series (1971-)
• the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 22, 42, 52, 61, 141, 160, 161, 163, and any other of the volumes devoted to Children's Literature (1983-)
• the Children's Literature Review series (1976-)
• the Junior Book of Authors series (1934-89)
• Barbara Rollock (editor), Black Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books: A Biographical Dictionary (1992)
• Althea K. Helbig and Agnes Regan Perkins, This Land Is Our Land: A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults (1994).

I have assembled a collection of web resources on Children's Literature. Explore the links to pages on:

• Selected Authors.
• Academic and Scholarly Resources.
• International and National Awards.
• General Resources on Children's Literature maintained by other scholars, teachers, and institutions.

Recommended Search Engines and Directories:

• Google. (Highly accurate because it ranks a site based on how many other sites link to that site; frequently updated.)
• Mamma. (Meta-search engine.)
• Vivisimo. (Meta-search engine that calls itself a "clustering engine"; quite accurate and interesting organization of results, but does restrict viewing your search results from within the frame.)

MLA Style:

• MLA Style Guide.
• MLA's Style Sheet for Citing Internet Resources
• Also see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on MLA Style at the Modern Language Association.

Grammar and Style

• Keys to Structure and Style (my list of common errors)
• Grammar and Style on-line resources (links, on my "Literary Links: General Literature Resources" page)