Childrens' /Youth
Recommended Resources
The Children's / Youth Collection
This specialized area of over 28,000 titles contains many award winning fiction and non-fiction resources for young people from preschool age through senior high school. Included are reference materials for school age students including: folk tales, poetry, subject guides to picture books, bibliotherapy, selected summaries, review sources and encyclopedias.
A particular emphasis has been given to multicultural works including appropriate books and reference materials for many cultures. A recent focus has been the selection of major classic and award winning children's / youth titles in both Spanish and English. Complete collections of four groups of award winning titles are available: the Newbery medal, the Caldecott medal, the Coretta Scott King award, and the Pura Belpre award. Other applicable awards are represented. The Children's / Youth Collection is located on Level 2.
