More About Authors and Illustrators of Children's LiteratureReference Resources and Indexes (find articles & chapters)
Literature Resource Center (or in the Library Databases and Indexes list; login required if off campus)
Excellent information about authors and illustrators. Includes Dictionary of Literary Biography's volumes on British and American Children's Literature writers (22, 42, 61, 141, 160, 161, and 163), links to Contemporary Authors, partial information from the Children's Literature Review, and other fabulous information including links to fulltext journal articles and appropriate web sites.
Lengthy essays (5 to 10 pages) about US, Canadian, and UK children's and young adult authors and illustrators. Illustrations and photographs abound. Indexed by illustrator and author.
Information on the Web about Children's Authors & Illustrators, and their Books as collected by the David K. Brown of the Children's Literature Web Site.
- Twentieth-Century Children's Writers (Jim Dan Hill Library Reference Book: PN1009.A1 T9 1978)
This source provides basic biographical information, a complete list of published works and critical essays about English-language authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama for children.
- Vandergrift's Learning About the Author and Illustrator Pages (Web Site)
Included in this site are links to information sites on children's and young adult authors and illustrators as well as many adult authors commonly read by young adults.
Catalogs (find books)
- Jim Dan Hill Library Catalog (Online catalog)
Look up your author or illustrator with a Subject Heading search within the Author/Title/Subject search. Also, look for specific book titles you discover in the resources above.
- WorldCat (login required if off campus)
Look up your author of illustrator with a Subject Phrase search within the Advanced search. Make sure to limit your search to Books and to English language materials (unless you are looking for other languages.) Click the "Libraries" icon near the top to check whether an item you want is held by a UW library. If it is, use Universal Borrowing from the library catalog to request it; if not, click on the "request this item" link to request it through Interlibrary Loan..