Research Guides: Literature: Diversity: Children

Background & Reference Information

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Comprehensive coverage of children's literature, from medieval chapbooks to Harry Potter.
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Call Number: Fondren Library, Red, PN1008.5 .C37 2015
Provides a reference guide to the world of children's literature.
Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature
Call Number: Fondren Library, Red, PR990 .O94 2011
Provides a thorough grounding in the field through a selection of original interdisciplinary essays on canonical and popular works in the Anglo American tradition.

Children's Literature and Culture This link opens in a new window
A collection of rare books, games, artwork, & more from the 1800s-1900s

Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes the Cambridge Companions to:
Children's Literature, C. S. Lewis, and more.
Children's Literature and Culture This link opens in a new window
A collection of rare books, games, artwork, & more from the 1800s-1900s
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Provides access to education literature (in the broadest sense) and resources.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text of articles for the full-runs of many seminal journals.
Library Catalog - Advanced This link opens in a new window
A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Modern Language Association's index to literature
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Literary criticism, authors' biographies, reference resources with citations
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Find books, journals, and archival collections from libraries around the world. Request items through interlibrary loan. Great for English majors because many records include a book's table of contents.

Shows all the records in the library catalog with this subject heading.