Description

For collection development, readers’ advisory, and curriculum support. Children's Core Collection covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, graphic novels, and magazines recommended for readers in preschool through sixth grade.

Features and benefits

• Search 8,455 entries (including 2,743 analytical entries for parts of collections or anthologies) in one easy-to-use database.
• Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.
• Selected and recommended by specialists in library service to children, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics, including a new abundance of books on minorities, ecology, natural sciences, and natural history. Data on fairy tales and picture books has also been expanded. New to the 18th Edition are listings of recommended Web resources, and audio book versions.
• Entries link to additional review excerpts from Wilson's Book Review Digest database.
• Retrieve records in machine-readable MARC format.
• Search descriptive and critical annotations for specific words.
• Updated quarterly.

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