This annual publication is produced by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre for teachers, librarians, parents, and booksellers, selecting the best titles from newly published Canadian children’s books, magazines, and audio and video materials.
Open to any topic in the field of international children’s literature as well as to children’s literature studies, Bookbird is a refereed journal published quarterly by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
Published by the American Library Association, Book Links provides information for using books in the classroom, with a focus on core curriculum areas, including science, social studies, language arts, history, the arts, geography, and multicultural literature.
Published by the American Library Association, Booklist is a book and media review journal, with coverage on themes such as biography, young adult, multicultural literature, graphic novels, romance, and sports.
As a children’s book review journal for school and public librarians, the Bulletin is published monthly, except for August, by The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Housed at the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures under the sponsorship of the Vice President (Research) and the Dean of Arts at the University of Winnipeg, CCL/LCJ is a bilingual refereed academic journal with a specific focus on texts for and about children in Canada of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds, in a range of media in English, French and other languages.
Published by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Canadian Children’s Book News provides parents, teachers, librarians, and booksellers with news, book reviews, author and illustrator interviews, profiles of publishers and bookstores, and information about the world of children’s books in Canada.
Published by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, CCBC Choices provides annotated entries and recommended lists for books of children and young adults as well as documents trends in U.S. publishing practices.
With a specific focus on theoretically based articles of key issues and criticism in children’s literature, Children’s Literature is the annual publication of the Children’s Literature Association, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
With coverage on all aspects of research and scholarship in children’s literature, the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, the journal of the Children’s Literature Association, is housed in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Georgia Southern University and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
This quarterly journal, published by Springer, features articles based on literary and pedagogical theory, critiques of classic and contemporary writing for children, and reviews on reading-related topics for teachers, teachers-in-training, librarians, writers, and parents.
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Providing a forum for exchange of ideas regarding curriculum and pedagogy of children’s literature in the development of literacy, this juried journal is housed at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, supported by the College of Education and Human Services as well as the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and published bi-annually by the International Reading Association Children’s Literature and the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group.
This bi-monthly journal has published articles, editorials on, and reviews of children’s and young adult literature since 1924.
With a focus on African American children’s literature that is written and/or illustrated by African Americans, this journal aims to provide educators of African American students with positive insights into their history, culture, and traditions.
Published twice annually by the Children’s Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Journal of Children’s Literature is a refereed journal committed to the teaching and scholarship of children’s literature.
Serving as a vehicle for continuing education among librarians working with children and young adults, the Journal of Youth Services in Libraries is the official publication of two divisions of the American Library Association: the Association for Library Service to Children and the Young Adult Library Services Association.
The Lion and the Unicorn, published by the John Hopkins Press, is a theme- and genre-centered scholarly journal of international scope of literature for children, with its coverage including the state of the publishing industry, regional authors, comparative studies of significant books and genres, new developments in theory, the art of illustration, the mass media, and popular culture.
Magpies includes reviews of new children’s and young adult books published in Australia and across the world, articles on children’s literature, author or illustrator interviews, information on awards, and children’s literature in Australia.
This journal focuses on children’s experiences of literature in the classroom, as well as the pedagogical issues of the teaching of children’s literature and multiculturalism. While this journal is no longer published, back issues are worthy of consideration.
Published three times a year by the School of Literary and Communication Studies of Deakin University, Papers is a refereed scholarly journal committed to critical essays on children’s literature.
This journal provides librarians who work with young people in schools and public libraries with information needed to integrate libraries into the school curriculum, and help them become leaders in the areas of technology, reading, and information literacy, and create high-quality collections for children and young adults.
Featuring scholarly as well as more practical articles about children’s books, The Looking Glass is an electronic journal aiming to promote critical analysis and creation of literature for children. www.the-looking-glass.net
Published bi-monthly on both theory and classroom practice, this journal provides a forum for discussions on all aspects of language arts learning and teaching among elementary and middle school teachers and teacher educators of children primarily in pre-K through grade 8. www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/la
As a quarterly journal published by the National Association for Multicultural Education, Multicultural Perspectives features articles, reviews, program descriptions, and other pieces by and for multicultural educators and activists around the world. See the “Guide to Resources” section for book reviews.
As the official publication of the Ethnic and MultiCultural Information Exchange Round Table of the American Library Association, MultiCultural Review is committed to reviews about diversity by offering classroom resources which focus on differences in ethnicity, race, spirituality, religion, disability, and language.
This journal provides information and solutions based on research and practice to transform children’s reading and enable them to become proficient readers.
As an activist publication, with articles written by and for teachers, parents and students, Rethinking Schools aims to balance classroom practice and educational theory while addressing problems such as basal readers, standardized testing, textbook-dominated curriculum, key policy issues, and those facing urban schools, particularly issues of race and class.
Teaching Tolerance, a free journal published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, provides learning engagements and reviews of educational materials that promote respect for diversity in the classroom and beyond.