Guides: Children's Literature: Books, Theses & More

Young People and the Effects of War

Some recent Canadian books, on deposit in the Library as part of the Canadian Children's Book Centre donation, to honour the work of peace educators and to mark Being the Change: Building a Culture of Peace, the Conference held at the Mount from July 7 to July 10, 2010

Online Reference Sources

Children's Literature Review (Gale)
Excerpts from reviews, criticism, and commentary on books for children and young people.
Select Children's Literature Review from the list of series
Something About the Author (Gale)
Information on the lives and works of contemporary and historical authors and illustrators of children’s books.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Detailed biographies of deceased persons who have made a significant contribution to Great Britain and the British Empire.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language and the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words.

Canadian Children's Book Centre

Canadian Children's Book Centre Catalogue
The Canadian Children's Book Centre has a collection of every Canadian children's books published since 1976, including young adult books, series and juvenile non-fiction. The MSVU Library is now the Atlantic regional deposit for this collection of over 6,000 titles.

You can also access the titles in the CCBC Collection by searching the Novanet catalogue.

E-books and other online collections

International Children's Digital Library
An ambitious attempt to digitize the full-text of children's literature from around the world. At present picture books predominate among the over 2,600 books in 48 languages.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound (CRKN - Alexander Street Press)
An international collection of musical and aural traditions.

Theses and Dissertations

Theses Canada Portal
Full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published since 1998.
MSVU E-Commons: MSVU Graduate Theses
Full-text versions of graduate theses produced at MSVU since 2006. Includes theses from Education, Family Studies & Gerontology, Applied Human Nutrition, Women and Gender studies, Child and Youth Study, and Public Relations.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
An index providing access to over 1 million full-text open access graduate theses and dissertations from institutions in Canada, United States, and all over the world.
EBSCO Open Dissertations
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations. For students and researchers, the Union Catalog makes individual collections of NDLTD member institutions and consortia appear as one seamless digital library of ETDs.
EThOS ( Electronic Theses Online Service)
The aim of the Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) is to maximise the availability and visibility of UK doctoral theses via a single web interface. It does this by providing both high quality metadata and, where possible, access to the full text either by downloading a PDF directly from EThOS or by following a link to the institutional repository.

Subject Databases
Many of our subject databases (including ERIC, PsycInfo, Ageline, MLA, SocIndex, Historical Abstracts/America: History & Life, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, Gender Studies) provide indexing of select dissertations.

Degree-granting institution
Check the home institution for an online repository/archive. More and more theses and dissertations are being made available in open access format.

Google Scholar
An academic search engine

Search for books

Search the Novanet catalogue for books, e-books, videos and more:

Novanet Catalogue Subject Headings

You can search the Novanet Catalogue by these and other Subjects:

Animals in Literature

Animals, Mythical

Children – Books and Reading

Children - Folklore

Children’s Literature – History and Criticism

Children’s Literature, American

Children’s Literature, Canadian

Children’s Literature, English

Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales - History and Criticism

Fantasy Fiction

Fantasy Literature

Folklore

Illustrated Books, Children’s

Illustrators

Imaginary Places

Monsters

Mythology

Picture Books for Children

Tales – History and Criticism

Many classic book titles and characters may be searched as Subjests: Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Alice (Fictitious character)

Note: Books about an Author may be located by searching the author (surname first) as a Subject Heading e.g. Sendak, Maurice – Criticism and Interpretation

Books by an Author are located by searching the catalogue under the author’s surname e.g. L’Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time