Saturday, June 11, 2011
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature (or DAWCL) is designed to help select titles of children's books based on certain criteria. This database enables you to search by items such as genre, setting, ethinicity/nationality of protagonist, gender of protagonist, keyword, awards, format, and more. Why is this helpful? While you can search a library's catalog by keyword, it is also somewhat limited to the assigned subject-terms. The creator of DAWCL, Lisa R. Bartle, is a librarian and has read many of the books that are included in the database. This means that she is able to create a robust index far more complete and searchable than a library's online catalog. This database has amazing detail and will be very helpful for anyone looking to create an exciting reading list.
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What a great resource to match kids with books they will find most interesting. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWow! What a great resource. I went on there and did a few searches. I can not believe all of the criteria that you can put into your searches. Does this get added to all and if so,how often? I will be definately be using this to find literature to support the curriculum and share this with my grade level.
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