The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is a research and reference service including:
- over 200,000 reviews of children's books from 33 review sources (all full-text searchable)
- over 33,000 book jacket images
- over 60,000 links to web pages featuring individual authors or illustrators
- information provided by various Reading Measurement Programs such as Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile and Reading Counts.
Search tips:
- To initiate a search, the simplest approach is to enter one or more words into the Word Search field and click the SEARCH button. The best search strategy, generally speaking, is to enter a short phrase that represents a specific concept (e.g., days of the week). Alternately, you may wish to type in one or more terms that are commonly associated with the subject.
A single term, if it is not too common, frequently will produce good search results. However, a search using a common term such as "dogs" will return a large number of records. To narrow such a search, include another term related to the specific concept you are interested in (such as "hunting"). - The word search, by default, includes both singular and plural forms of the search words entered. The word search can be made narrower by limiting the search to the exact words as entered, or to the exact phrase as entered.
Alternately, the word search can be made broader by including word variants generated by a word stemmer and a table of synonyms. Click the radio button for the specific option desired, or accept the default.
- The results of a search are first presented in the brief format, which provides a short list of matching records with up to 20 items per display page. The title of the item, its publication date, author, illustrator, and classification are displayed and the results are presented in relevance order as determined by the search engine.
Click on the hypertext link on the brief display to view the full display for that item. The total number of items found by the search is shown at the top of the display. The full display also provides hypertext links based on:
- subject headings
- author names
- illustrator names
- awards
- prizes
- reading lists
- reviewer names
These can allbe used to automatically generate new lists of all works with a particular subject term, author, etc.
Where is it :
Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page. Under Find, select Articles, then under Article databases by name, click on the letter C and select Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database.
Quick link:
Click here for the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database homepage